1630 5 1
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And suddenly, I have this crazy impulse, so crazy and so puzzling I do not possess enough vocabulary and grammar skills to describe what is invisible and what is visible about it. The reader must excuse me and be attentive.
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163063
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“I'm thinking about math class,” she said. “The solution to three factorial.”
“Easy,” Leo said.
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163000
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As airplanes fly low over her children playing in the kiddie pool on the front lawn, Maureen learns something else about her father's new house that lies in the flight path of an international airport.
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163044
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Tears and tears and tears flowed
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163085
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Marv felt a stirring. Warmth in his gut. "Maybe we should get together," Marv said.
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162951
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I have a tablet called, The Shit List...
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162955
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I keep my love for you in me, /
like the egg of a worm,
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16291113
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I was seeing the owl lady from time to time when I met Caroline.
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162961
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The unpublished writer remembered the carnage that surrounded his Foxhole in France and decided he was done praying. All around lay the evidence that no one was listening. The drunken pastor stumbled away.
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162944
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It was a dark and stormy night.
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162943
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Shadows from a star
Never too close
Never too far
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162998
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It is true that the college dogs spread vermin, reeked and shat on the soccer field...
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162920
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I know you,
ladies and gentlemen
We see the near future
through you
Your factual face
as you sit indoors
Youthless
In your ordinary chair
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162943
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“I want you to know that you are being watched,” Ernie said. “I have trained a camera on your work station.”
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16291110
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44 miles out
the gauntlet of Red River pines
cast shadows pointing north.
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162932
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How does a mixed couple come together in the Troubles?
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162963
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The poet said, ‘I feel the fell of dark, not day.” but day it always is. Bright! Bright!
the city claims its blue salutes; its stopping in mid-sentence at a name where fingers roam a stone.
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1629118
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I was sleeping the night of a hurricane party. I awoke to lightning flashes. They lit the undersides of descending clouds, and lit the shadows of scattering dancers. The hurricane must have turned inland.
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162966
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The day came shyly up to me like a rolling orange thing. Perhaps of alien origin, but not if the Buddha of our foolish hopeless dreamer inside has anything to say about it. It said, pick me up. I did. It looked like forever on the inviting horizon with trees as…
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162944
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She wakes up with rosemary.
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162920
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He gave her cancer. He gave her cancer.
Not what she said. She said her relationship gave her cancer. Her relationship with him. Gave her cancer.
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1628172
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You can tend to recognise the difference between a good and mediocre mind by observing how each reacts to a misfired original idea.The mediocre mind will praise the merely meretricious, but ignore the more interesting bad art. The higher mind will value the misfired…
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162876
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you might as well be blind
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162841
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In mid dream, mid journey, there's a barrier we must cross, flat and vast like an ocean. We're told the barrier is a monster. To cross the barrier we must maim one of its eyes. There, rising to the surface is half a large…
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162851
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Some things are meant to be repeated
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162853
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"and I turned to you, at some joke we shared,
and saw winter ease its hand,"
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162843
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I fear osiris with his feather rising to meet the raven in mid-air they will turn to look at me decide if I go through the door of no return into fierce landscape on my knees I will crumple into the foetal…
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16281212
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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
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1628136
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She’s changed leaves to emeralds. Worn a shawl of inked birds’ wings.
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162800
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"So, what do you do for fun around here? I mean, other than each other?" Carlo's smirk broke into full-fledged laughter; Yuri feigned shock. Iris leaned forward and breathed into Bronte's ear: "We misbehave."
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