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Four Quartets is a slender book which/
can be read with intensity in its entirety
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153360
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Passing us in a delicate swirl of light perfume and healthy girl sweat, three bare midriff elfin, baby dykes with pencil thin eyebrows, and chic art hair cuts, swaggered in like cool young gunfighters straight off the cover of Bad Baby Butch Vogue
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153344
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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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153321
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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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153353
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The porous bear the anchorite’s vial
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153320
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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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153375
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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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153397
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It sometimes happens a student remains a friend long after you both have abandon academe.
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153210
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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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153233
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Ten am, and the piledriver behind Rhys's eyes shows no sign of mercy. Beyond the safety glass, caverns of empty air tumble down and out to where the edge of the city is lost in the murk. The figures on the screen pulse and phase with the hideous internal rhythm of his…
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153211
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You know moments like these. You know how your mother ruins them.
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15321311
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It’s been a series of bad clams
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153244
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The figure eight will fall on its side. Become infinity.
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153232
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"Pull around," Rachel says. "Pull around him, dammit."
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153221
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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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153200
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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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153253
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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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153285
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They are plastering on lipstick in pay-to-enter toilets
around the corner from the mosques, where old men
sit on back streets selling toilet seats, spices by the
shovel, flashlights, and Audrey Hepburn t-shirts
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153266
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We touch the places now, feel the hardness of bone...
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153296
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I cannot begin to list all the ways this conversation can go downhill from here, so I hang up the phone quietly.
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1532156
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Call it a spell or a prayer or a ritual; it worked.
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153253
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This woman is naked to the waist and then nakeder below that.
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153144
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And you lean forward and all of that caffeine anxiety rises up in your throat, the pressure in your jaw, a series of weights and pulleys on your teeth and at the back of your mouth. So when you open your mouth to talk, no sound is made, only the sound of
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1531106
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She is face down in the snow
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15311512
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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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Weddings, engagements etc.
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153199
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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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153197
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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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