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Come, bring your sadness
to the precipice of my body,
bury it within me like a tool
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169255
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I guess you’re gone now
That’s okay
I guess I can live with my own ghosts
I had no idea
What it meant
But now I do
It meant I was standing
At the end of everything
And did not know it
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169265
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One of the poems in my collection, One Day Tells its Tale to Another, published December 16, 2012. Available on Amazon. My first book!
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169220
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After three teens took off without paying
and he clung to the hood of their car
He wasn’t trying to be a hero
sandwich or otherwise
but climbed onto the hood when they
tried to run him over
There was some question and dispute
over th
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169274
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He calls it an owl glass: he’s allowed: he’s six.
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169200
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I met Barry Hannah once in my life. I’d come to Oxford, MS, to meet an entirely different writer whom I thought then and think now very highly of. I’d also come to escape from another slew of regrets. Oxford is a great city to run away to.
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169265
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So few dreams are the doors they seem.
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169211
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1. The sparrows' heads revolve slowly when you press the red button, but the boxing glove attachments don't work.2. A weird weaving of voices, unmusical harmony. One phrase punctures the texture: “The empty slot.”3. Poems are processed into more useful verbal…
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169233
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By February, I had decided,
That you'd tear out my throat every morning
if it meant your favorite song would play from my neck.
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1692138
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I worry for the daffodils/
and there optimistic yellow bursts./
I worry for the over-eager clover,//
prodigious green on crepe myrtles,/
even for the early green of nut grass.
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169200
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Their faces covered in shadow, smiles so relaxing, a tall woman approached her, gently rubbing her face. Her lips moved with no sound, but Sora subconsciously understood what she said.
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169222
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...you should pick a VERY OLD millionaire. Very old, and NOT VERY WELL...
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169274
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Food is silly. Eating is silly. Yet the camaraderie of sharing a table is not silly. It is sacred. It becomes silly when the jello arrives.
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169221
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He repeated these six words like a prayer. His only confession.
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169211
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The crowd- which consisted of exclusively men with beards and djembe drums and women with hairly legs poking out of corduroy patchwork skirts- cowered and crawled in fear around the angry man-bomb, mortally frightened yet encouraged to shimmy because the
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169110
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He first saw her stepping off a water taxi by the Long Docks in the rain at night, her right arm atrophied from some early childhood disease, dangling like an apology, her other holding a cigarette. Her wet black hair hung past her shoulders and her eyes
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169155
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I keep my love for you in me, /
like the egg of a worm,
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169154
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facts are facets are / things in the act // the truth speaks softly // as time saying amber / to the enduring sap // words come and go / like leaves like men // we the tree remain ...
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169132
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169165
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She stood there with her back to me and her dress around her ankles.
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169186
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Your laugh used to startle the nurses.
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169111
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After years of unsustainable binge spending and a global economic semi-meltdown, most people have had to cut back on their expenses. Many folks are struggling to make do in this new and bewildering economy and we are all learning to live on our means, rather than beyond…
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1691154
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This cell the sole certainty,
all else steeped in mystery.
Why should we be here?
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16911510
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16911811
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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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169100
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169100
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Morning time had come again. Kojo felt the beginning of the day, but couldn't know it yet. Awareness came first: the temperature of the room, the light behind his eyelids, how much of him could feel a draft. Then, before it was taken from him, he recalled the memory of a…
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169100
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I'm subconsciously a sucker for guys who are no good for my
self-esteem. Or waistline.
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169172
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I must have been six years old at that time, but the events of…
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169133
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