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“So, do you still think I'm hot? I mean, do you think men still find me attractive?” Jenny asks. This is never a good question to answer, much less entertain. I know this as surely as I know anything. Still, let's break it down. I am married. Jenny is…
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I can't find my way back to the library. I've heard of this happening, that if you leave even for just one day and for a very good reason, as good a reason as mine, you may not find your way back. Now why should this be so? I do not understand this library. It houses…
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For years I watched behind the glass
While merry parties purpled past
But now the world’s a Solemn Mass
And I can only think.
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I enjoyed the talking part though
rambling on and on for lord knows
why or how
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There is truth you can’t escape or say any other way and expect it still to be truth.
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I’m not dog-like in any sexy manner, like a Wolf Man who kills livestock and lurks in the shadows on the outer fringes of society, mouth bloodied at the tips, and waking up as a fully functioning human naked in some field. Instead, I lurk among rows of cu
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my molars are dancing, tekka-tekking to the strung-out paint can groove of my heart.
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"On the podium at Pride, he owned that he'd loved taking his children to playgroup as he got to ogle all the breast-feeding mothers. "
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Whenever trees or limbs fell in isolate forests—well, no narrators were ever to be found, not even beneath the larger tree trunks or under the fallen limbs.
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There is a whisper in the shadows
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The most beautiful possible thing is to deprive all places of their meanings.
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The first time I saw Little Man was on a bright, hot afternoon near the end of November, when the trains had just pulled into the fair grounds and the familiar smell of upturned turf and sun-basked animals returned to Sarasota.
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I did do one nice thing for you
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(the vast preponderance of dark matter and dark energy discernible in these latter days begins to suggest just how dark the humor of existence is) . . .
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Funny, funny stuff. She'll be here all week--be sure and tip your speech therapist!
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The leaves were meaningless because they were no longer connected to the trees.
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Either it was rescue--if the customer was alive to be found--or recovery, the term for bringing out the dead.
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no more trying to keep / the peace, no more trying / to keep every person happy. / Just this: no more.
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This morning as I stepped out of the shower I was hit with a panicked fit in which it became urgent that I rid my flesh of each drop of water that burdened it. Not quite like the feeling of being…
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under your skin the moon is alive
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“Oh yeah?" I said to Stendhal. "I found six references to women's eyebrows in Travels in the South of France. That's all you think about!”
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The slicing is easy. Blade barely touching skin, flesh separating into two clean parts. A breath, and blood fills in the space, an old friend materializing in the shadows. I am redolent with hope and desire. I can't stop thinking of how he excised himself from my…
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1. Walking here
with you
on these narrow
strands
of clean air
& imagination
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I took a lover on Ibiza either because he was clean-smelling or because he had a hotel room and there were none to be had.
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For you have waited. And waited and waited. And soon your slice of bread will be ready.
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you drove by the woman standing on the verge the woman with the shoulders of a long distance swimmer and you told yourself her story: she'd slept in the wiregrass she carries…
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