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I don’t remember much about kindergarten.... The teacher’s name was Mrs. Halverson. She was nice.
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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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The nearsighted world/
puts on its lenses
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It's time, more than anything
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I had enough judgment, anger and vengefulness from the people around me in the steel town of Pueblo, Colorado, where I was growing up. I didn’t need more from my God.
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Something was changing.
We could sense it in the circling air. A loss of stillness - and we'd been still for so long.
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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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I held her hand through two divorces, I warned her that gorgeous Geoffrey was homosexual when she was oblivious, and I fed her children when she was off at rehab (four times before it 'took').
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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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That Loving Feeling
How do I love thee?
I love the bulge
of your breast
along the inside
of my upper arm
when you lie on top
kissing me
I love
feeling the movement
of your nipple
along the tender skin
there
It
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They screened the thousands of mosquitoes that hatched, and found a few carrying the botox transgene. In a few months time, several billion mosquitoes had been bred, ready for release. Now to wait for that diplomatic flashpoint, when war could be declared
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LECTURES A Bra Burning When Freud painted “Envy,” the women collapsed, holding fans to their faces. Hot that year, they retired to the Tyrols. 50 Days of Palindromes Although Thiebaud painted cakes like women,…
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awoke in confusion, fear and hurt never seen before that day a year past
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I am reintroducing myself.
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"and I turned to you, at some joke we shared,
and saw winter ease its hand,"
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fuck you Charles Bukowski
go cry in your eggs in a Jersey diner
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Lawrence Light had two degrees: business and theology. I liked the clean font he chose for his resume. At the interview, his face was open. His eyes were bright.
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Yes, he'll be quiet. Very quiet. He rocks himself, the ark, suddenly imagining water underneath him, over head, all around. Water, water, water—
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This time, he didn’t admire the fish for very long. He was close to shore and tossed it up on the rocks. Before the fish could flop its way back to the water, Quentin lobbed a broad stone at its head.
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On an overcast and humid day in August, Jesus—with Dad’s permission, of course—decided to make his grand return.
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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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I used to love myselfin hidden burstsforbidden momentsof pleasure in my morning bedlater, I numbedmy senses and stumbled blindlyinto wild sensationsof releaseand called itecstasyintensity is a drugfear, grief, anger,as seductive as joy,makes the heart pump,the blood rush…
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The pristine Hudson's/waters dance in the dark of/the East River's rinse.
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I bit her ear and /
it was burnt toast
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The skin will stay but you won’t see it,/
camouflaged by creases, tags, and curious/
deposits of renegade fat and pigment.
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13 rooks on a lifeless tree
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We are/no more than heartbeats on repeat.
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Defy the impulse to grow beyond/
your means and the means of the/
place where you lie at night.
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For a few/
vivid weeks, deciduous shrubs and trees/
will seem to glow like flames and embers
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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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