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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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169820
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[B]y fleeing the city to live on the outskirts of nowhere—a place so far off the beaten path that even Duras’s aging Mr. Andesmas would have felt isolated—I was of course trying to escape from none other than myself.
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169820
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Contemporary persecution of Christians takes on milder forms of torture like having to explain away something Pat Robertson said, or constantly having to hear about Fred Phelps picketing funerals because he happens to hate homosexuals.
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169865
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The heart attack felt like the time Alison stabbed me with knitting needles. It made me want to see her. She was the fun wife, the first of three. I was morbid and full of regret — my drinking had driven them away, no kids in the wake. I decided to visit all of…
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169800
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For you –
because you deserve more effort
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169763
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Morning's first blush, their world in repose. Sated, drained, spent; …
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1697109
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Polylinguists lash me
with tongues I cannot conjugate
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169761
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The unpublished writer remembered the carnage that surrounded his Foxhole in France and decided he was done praying.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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169721
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"For several days thinking they had found a dead man’s boot beside the highway..."
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1697126
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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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169751
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"Good, it's Link Wray again,"
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1697125
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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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169743
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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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16971110
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44 miles out
the gauntlet of Red River pines
cast shadows pointing north.
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16971212
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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
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169711
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When we started plans for the party, none of us wanted Larry to die, most of all Larry himself.
Actually, when we first started plans for the party, Larry wasn’t dying.
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169721
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169772
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"Penning a slight of tongue well versed
or worse, a salacious lie..."
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16971613
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He'd hung above her head for months.
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16971111
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Vera Wang I saw you on Oprah today girl. Oh no no no.
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1697104
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A Parody of Keats I stood at silent thought upon a clump Of nettles, swaying in the od'rous air- That blew from my own trousers, by the dump; That it had not blown more lent me despair. The dulcet horn gave melody, rare…
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169721
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Boys start fires all the time— it's a rite of passage— so when your father gives you the task of setting fire to the family's trash, you don't mind, and when the flames ignite inside the old dishwasher he heaved into the woods behind the house, you…
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1697109
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What grabbed the mind when you heard about it was the way he did it.
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169731
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As a rule, she calls me whenever she’s waiting for her train or bus. ‘Hiya… How’s life-’ she starts off sweetly. Even though I should know better by now, I can only respond in the same old way. I’ll say: ‘Hi Kate!’. Next, I’ll try to te
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16971211
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169676
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In human rights, a man and a woman may marry and bring forth a family. It is a civil right in the U.S. but not a human right (as far as I know) to raise a child singly without the knowledge of the other parent.
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169682
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13 rooks on a lifeless tree
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16961916
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severe snow storm coming. I'm looking for a parking spot and listening to Machito & Charlie Parker
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169677
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We are/no more than heartbeats on repeat.
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169643
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Unconsciously she shook her head at her own weakness in coming out to see Wayne when things were in shambles at home. Guilt had beat resolve in the cosmic game of rock paper scissors.
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