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Though we came to life as to a school/
We leave without graduating
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155599
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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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155500
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Late spring, summer before cancer. Frank drove Max and his pal Jason to Cincinnati for their first rock show. Less Than Jake at Bogart's. A two-hour drive for ska-punk.
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“Careful of the shells,” yousaid. I wanted to tasteyour white, and makea table of your midriff. Georgia's just aplace withso little, butan island nevertheless. Sky's a thing weseem to be, when thelight focuses on…
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Not like a Palestinian mother clinging to her baby shot through the belly or the baby clinging to the last moments of life in the arms of his father who, when the life departed, held him up over his head
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Sometimes it waited after dark, when everyone was asleep, and moved in slowly like a thief, working its way into all the ruwas, up everyone's nostrils, seemingly intent on making the people's mountain existence a troublesome one
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155421
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Like puddles when it rains,
like relationships in chains.
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155463
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The camera moves slowly around the interior of a building inhabited by books.
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155440
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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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155463
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"...easier to get milk from a male tiger than mercy from him."
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"Pull around," Rachel says. "Pull around him, dammit."
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There was a small slanted hole through the edge of the door, and another one in the door frame. She pushed the door closed to check. The holes matched up.
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in our teens as tough as the cold/we wore denim and flannel with our boots/kicking at whichever wind blew . . .
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155463
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If he had not just decapitated a chicken, he was a man I could have loved.
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There are lines//
across time, beyond the tug/
of elections and fashion,/
beyond the turbulence of history
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I’m lying on the floor curled up in the foetal position and about six people are stamping on me. [...] It’s really confusing down here, what with all the kicking.
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Can't believe I was able to drive this far
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The words(worlds) have become abstracted through contempt?
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155410
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He was almost dying when I reached the hospital. I walked past the open automatic sliding doors into the lobby, almost vacant except a few people milling around, the nurses fighting sleep behind the desks while waiting for their shift to end.
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She’s witnessed her mother’s terror on the day of the hurricane, and she demanded for the first time in her life that her mother do something her mother did not want to do.
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The fish would need a name, but she didn’t know how to tell if it was a boy or a girl. Did fish have penises?
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Prabo was late.
It wasn’t like him, I thought, sitting on the steps of the Galle Face Hotel, the Indian Ocean pounding the beach abutting the nearby Galle Face Green and spraying fine mist everywhere. Or at least it didn’t seem like him.
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I avoid weddings like the plague.
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I feel about the universe/
as Abrahamics are supposed/
to feel about their Yahweh, /their God,
and their Allah:/ I am in fear,
I am in awe, /I am in love.
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155362
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Mark dressed the velvet red Stetson,
too big for his head,
like a dandy.
A six year old savior
with fringe on his pockets
flapping as he, the ‘Judas horse’
led me ’round back
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“Who’s chasing you?”.
When the answer is ‘no one’, it’s best to drive away, like you would from a forgettable Oregon town or someone who can’t love you more than they hate themselves.
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Unapproachable... for all that.
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I’ve done my part of the job in conservative clothing. Lonnie’s done her part looking like Dolly Parton.
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This is the world of an urgent art,
the room silent, except for the constant
sound of the camera.
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Call it a spell or a prayer or a ritual; it worked.
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