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So ya think you’re a writer? First of all, shut up. No, seriously, the very first thing you need to do, this very instant, is to just shut your mouth and take a seat.
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The way I felt was as though you were, every day, making the conscious and deliberate decision not to be with me, not to share your life with me—and not to share my life, that you were choosing not someone else, but something else.
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You know moments like these. You know how your mother ruins them.
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It’s been a series of bad clams
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She is face down in the snow
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Four Quartets is a slender book which/
can be read with intensity in its entirety
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An anorexic middle-aged woman walked up and watched me..
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It happened right after I had taken my Uzi to work, retrieved it from my Brooks Brothers briefcase, and fired it upon my desk and its assorted discontents, their paper lives bunched together by clips and notary stamps of approval, now set flying and free. I then walked into…
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Not long ago, Owen the Second showed her a skull. He kept it in a brown cardboard box in the top of the closet. "My first wife," he said, and sneered, his lip bunching up around a scar just under his nose.
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You would think that a department responsible for recovering readers from falling into the illusory realities of their books would merit an office in a less obvious state of disrepair.
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When I first arrived/footling-breeched/you two were there/ahead of me.
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I visited the grave of Rimbaud. / It was pale blue
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My music teacher, Luigi Biagi, told me that he was done with me. He said it was time I moved on to more specialized teachers. Since my passion was composing and arranging, he recommended Al Fine.
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Call it a spell or a prayer or a ritual; it worked.
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The house had to be clean - I mean thorough-clean - when he got home from the pit for his tea, or he’d throw his plate at the wall and the gravy would run down onto the carpet. There was always gravy.
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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.
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She worked the research desk. Like most ladies before computers and cell-phones she lead a quiet conservative life. She wore dresses, spent time with family and friends...Emma also had been stricken as a child
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The figure eight will fall on its side. Become infinity.
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Effie reckons the river her sister keeps asking about, the Great Pee Dee, was named after some Indians.
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"Pull around," Rachel says. "Pull around him, dammit."
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Judith was a bed wetter. Judith was a first-year college student and she was embarrassed that she wet the bed.
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I should have buried him on the saddleback and kept my mouth shut. I'll murder the bastard who did it.
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The inhabitants of the surrounding neighborhood steered clear of the Lot, mindful of its existence, its countless drags of scrap, drenched with the fused association of many scenes and emotions from memory and experience. Left to its own devices, the place is now…
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Perhaps you have heard the rumors of big money in poetry
Maybe that’s why everybody is writing it these days
Even Emily Dickinson must have heard these rumors
Myself, I suspected as much 50 years ago
And started early to accumulate my hoard of poe
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"Oh — what is this 'work' thing the philosophers speak of" sort of thing.
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Like puddles when it rains,
like relationships in chains.
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I know this: the sky is vast here//
and the sun unforgiving/
to any architecture not the best
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It is another evening of ordinary sand. The moon worms, all mellow and white, glow shine over the laminated floor. Shay's bladder is full, and protesting with a thump of ache. Shay holds on nervously.Last time she pissed tiny silver fish that roiled in the froth of her…
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Before Sandy, there was hype of Sandy. On the third day of hype, the broadcasters laughed. Then B-O-O-M, lights out, houses flooded, and Obama was re-elected.
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