1720 7 5
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They politely urged him not to get too involved with his creations.
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1720125
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I walked along the beach today, and there I saw them all; including the latest lost: little Tiven, Tommy, Michaela & my Paul. Grandma painted at her easel, set upon the dune. Uncle Eddie bent in half, laughing like a loon, Oliver growled…
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17201210
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I avoid weddings like the plague.
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17201110
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44 miles out
the gauntlet of Red River pines
cast shadows pointing north.
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172094
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We shot out the windows of an abandoned building nearby so as to trick them into thinking we’d had snipers stationed in that building.
They shot at the abandoned building.
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17202012
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The eyes, luminous and large-
each an infinite bright blue ocean
Wind ruffles feathers
My ego and vanity also/
encourage me not to wear a mask.
An aberration/
that general circumstances/
will remedy, and soon.
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172097
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a girl with wolves, dogs and a bear
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172063
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It started like this: just him saying, "Nice to meet you, Marie," and me, while I just said his own name back to him, at the same time thinking, "I want you to take me to a hotel room someday, Frederick. I think I’ll like the way you’d make me feel...
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171987
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graves left or graves lost, into silence death sinks:/it's leaving the living that leaves us such pain.
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171986
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remembering Cahokia, a place we rent near the water's edge, for we dare not enter
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1719109
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Polylinguists lash me
with tongues I cannot conjugate
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171952
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This is Peter’s office. The room is small, and the wood paneling is painted white. Light colors, Peter has been told, make a room appear larger.
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1719107
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In her blanched beauty, seated in a silver deck chair, with complacent socialist ways
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171955
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Vibrations of a cavern a mile beneath silver willows.At two in the morning beyond the Sheratona lumination of pollution intercedes realism.Cardinals and doves develop their melodyprogressively caught in beat/heart echoes,as with spelunker canaries fluting noxious gasa small…
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1719167
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It's time, more than anything
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171900
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If they don’t cover consequences in your gifted and talented program, you may care to research it.
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171900
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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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171975
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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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171900
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This had the unintentional effect of me picturing her in a tight white top and tiny orange shorts. From up close like this, I had clearly misjudged her earlier. She could definitely be more than the quirky best friend in my movie.
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171960
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We may not be capable of even trying to appreciate the fact of mortality until we are somewhat older—let's say 18 years old. But, from the age of 18 until we die—and die we will; we know that—we have the opportunity to spend some time thinking abou
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17181611
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What a beautiful Thing / Urine is
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171888
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Light slunk in from under a door, but just a sliver.
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1718105
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as I imagine only you canyou're the ocean on fire before anyone else hasbroken that ancient seal, or simply taken the first icy plunge.You can eatall the bitterfruit there is, but that stilldoesn't make theworld a more hatefulplace. Only people…
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171844
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It was like watching one of those vintage eighteen-frames-per-second films of someone trying to open a stuck umbrella.
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171897
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I remember meeting you many years later.
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171865
|
go ahead
stick one more morsel
into that piehole
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1718128
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fetal position can make a man seem small. harmless. like the child your womb won't carry...
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171811
|
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171830
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Chapter one I was sitting in the doctor's office. For weeks, my nerves had been on edge, and I had been feeling like he was going to have a nervous breakdown. I needed the help of a professional. It was hard for me to admit this. I was taught that a man handled…
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171733
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two roses her eyes
aqua-blue
no, blue-green
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