1709 6 3
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There’s an unending parade of drifters, outlaws and crazies and I always have to watch my back, but, then again, that’s nothing new.
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1709116
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I might wish I was anything
including some dust on the shelf
where maybe I might blow away
unseen like the coming of rust
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17091717
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Something about shadows and last time and driving.
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170920
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No matter how you do it, forgetting something doesn’t mean as much once you’ve forgotten.
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17091810
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In what appears to have been a coordinated, coast-to-coast attack, country clubs across America were attacked last night with firebombs and heavy contaminations of herbicides.
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170933
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He didn't want to read his father's statement. Yet still he lingered, poised over the kitchen table, where his father had left it.
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1709147
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170932
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Her students read their work aloud in class, haltingly, sometimes proudly, and their willingness amazed Miriam. They were immigrants and retirees, carpenters, security guards, Indian nannies, Iranian escapees. She loved their odd word choices, the lack of editorial impulse.…
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170911
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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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170912
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If it weren't for the different lengths of dock, I would think the river just goes past me. Maybe it does, and the banks move too. Orderly where the clouds are random. I have cormorants, passengers, and salmon. They catch each other. They make my crew money. When did my…
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17091212
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I picked out a book to read on the airplane. The title was The Function of the Orgasm by Wilhelm Reich.
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17082112
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We lie sleepless at night, enraged,/
and finger the keyboard
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170811
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Once upon a time in the days of old
There lived a poor tailor who- I am told-
Did brag that his daughter
Spun straw into gold!
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170831
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Rumor was their only mission was to smash all the glass in the world. They sneezed and smashed and laughed like hell.
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1708116
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Even in the fading light, it looked big enough to disembowel a man.
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170810
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While the tea was steeping, Ms. Darcy unwrapped the package. The book was lovely. It had nice heavy paper and the print was a good size for reading. The cover was glossy and not too showy, and Ms. Darcy thought it would look just right on her shelf.
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170841
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I am reintroducing myself.
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1708168
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Lou Reed was sitting in CBGB,
I was sitting on Greenwich Ave. and West 10th street.
I didn't know him then and I didn't know him later either,
but we were both there.
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170800
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Ahead, she heard voices. She approached very slowly, as quiet as possible. She knelt behind a pair of shrubs and peeked through a small opening.
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170843
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Don't throw earth on bones.
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17081412
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She was sick and tired of marriage. She didn't want to be a mother, but now she was.
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170821
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Bake sweet rolls and make love to your new wife, fall asleep for three years and grow a beard.
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170896
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He brought me kisses from New York.
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170844
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She wakes up with rosemary.
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170862
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Sometimes one person's shelter is another person's storm.
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170741
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I'm in our bed eating yesterday's pizza and chain-watching pirated foreign horror films
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170711
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From above we see the trampled grass circling the house. Trampled grass from where half starved alligators circled the house, hissing and issuing low moans. Half starved alligators deranged by the red skies circled the house in the late August of the last year. Beginning in…
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170700
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Under the darkness of their new city. The heave and moan of structures as they breathed and pulsed. Under the darkness of this city, under the hum of their florescent bulbs and the tumbling rattle of motorcars, the wheeze of their machines and the clank o
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170775
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They politely urged him not to get too involved with his creations.
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170722
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He was just walking along, making sure that no white, Hispanic, Native American or Asian people were doing anything illegal when he noticed the young black man walking down the street.
He hadn't meant to.
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