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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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152840
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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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152884
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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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152811
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You know moments like these. You know how your mother ruins them.
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152864
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Outlined against the thinly layered darkness of the room, there is a silhouette of a small boy with his feet pulled up to the chin, failing to hold its own against the thousand stares from the deep violating the stillness of his room, their long familiarity with the…
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152871
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They were pressing her about the money, it was always about the money.
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152844
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When I got that brain tumor I hallucinated this crazy doctor. Dr. Doug. He came into my…
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152863
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If he had not just decapitated a chicken, he was a man I could have loved.
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152897
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It sometimes happens a student remains a friend long after you both have abandon academe.
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152721
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Like puddles when it rains,
like relationships in chains.
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152753
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“Me try anything,” he says, then laughs a little. “You’re fucked.”
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152784
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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.
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152763
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After work and wine, I Take some red food coloring and empty it Into my bath water. I submerge myself and open my eyes Like looking backwards at the world through A liquid sunset. I push myself under water, squeaking Feet…
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15271512
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A farm girl raised on fresh eggs and weather forecasts...
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152721
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Penny followed the woman into the warm, dark interior of her home, which smelled strongly of cumin and other familiar spices she couldn’t name. Penny noted that the tia’s hair had turned almost completely white and had grown very long since Penny had last
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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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152720
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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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152753
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This woman is naked to the waist and then nakeder below that.
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152653
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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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152644
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The figure eight will fall on its side. Become infinity.
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152620
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My sister Janis called me from Berlin and said to turn on the news. You could see the thick flurries of snow that were falling there and the flat feathers of peoples' breaths issuing from their mouths as they took turns swinging pick-axes, standing on top
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152610
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I'm going up and down elevators all over the Financial District and I have no office.
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152652
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i built a house in the trees
before i lived in the sky
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Slept on a chair last night in the Springfield, Mass., bus terminal. It was March, and a dude in shorts asked: "Yo, you smoke trees?" I said, "Sure. Who doesn't?" He said, "You buyin'?" I said, "Nope, I'm going out of the country." He smiled and said, "Alright." He started…
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I like him. I really, really like him in a way that I don’t like guys, not anymore, not after all the dirty lies into get in my pants, the dirtier lies to get out of them later, the indignities and the humiliations and the disappointments.
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When I first arrived/footling-breeched/you two were there/ahead of me.
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I knew nothing about the letter at first. When I came in that morning and smiled and said good morning, it was a genuine smile and a heartfelt good morning. But the letter, which had arrived the previous afternoon, was already doing its corrosive work of
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