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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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1703910
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it's time for the cold, antiseptic
cloth to briskly remove the evidence.
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170344
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Momma takes us to the candle store next door where everything smells sweet
as she opens, closes glass lids, lets us lean our faces close, smell pumpkin, lavender,
trees...
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1703104
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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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170386
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Our afterlife depends upon//
what interesting shape
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170394
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I It's been there all week, Nose tucked into tail Comfort found between impact and asphalt II I'm still here logged out, still here Had it with the billboards the check engine light milemarkers... Just…
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170333
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17021113
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I was seeing the owl lady from time to time when I met Caroline.
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170274
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I was just sitting in the corner, stirring my stories with a straw that sucked characters out of bars.
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170200
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Alysia tried to focus on what was important, but it was too much to bear. She was ready to dive down when a shot of wind blew past her, causing her and Megumi to lose control over their gliders.
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1702116
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A pinprick breaks the black/
and pins the spin of constellations/
around its still point.
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170286
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Your laugh used to startle the nurses.
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170200
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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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170201
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As the four flew beside each other, they shared their stories and got to know one another. Soon they learned from the voice what was happening.
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170275
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If the Titanic rises from the bottom of the sea,
I will meet you on deck, in a deck chair.
Fully dressed for a change.
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170275
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I got a sixth of a cow in the freezer
That’s not meant to be just a teaser
I guess all I’m sayin’
Come on home and you’ll be stayin’
Cause I got a sixth of a cow in the freezer
Got a rack and a half of ribs
I ain’t tellin’ you no fibs
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1702198
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A proper study of human history should
lead the student to an inescapable desire
to commit suicide
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1701127
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In time, I will forgethow he said "smooshie" for "smoothie"and "eyebrowns" for "eyebrows,"how his upper lip dimpled when he laughedin that uproarious, wild toddler way.How he wheedled to be wrapped and rocked,after a bath, even at age five,his long calves uncovered by…
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1701172
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You can tend to recognise the difference between a good and mediocre mind by observing how each reacts to a misfired original idea.The mediocre mind will praise the merely meretricious, but ignore the more interesting bad art. The higher mind will value the misfired…
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170121
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170122
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So it's me and two other girls...
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170100
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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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170175
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Beneath an opal moon, the open field and wilderness across it look immersed in varying shades of blue. A strong night howler blows across a little girl's face as she walks the field as if in a trance; her whole visage framed against the backdrop of this very act …
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170165
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Cézanne sags during a moment of paint. There is an umbrella in the room whose surface collects his thoughts. Outside, in the rain, the grass and garden smell strongly of spring. Fruit litters the table. Light through the window writhes in conversation with shape and…
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170044
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It was a dark and stormy night.
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170043
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I'd never seen a dead person before, let alone one that was living just
seconds earlier.
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170032
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1700154
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This cell the sole certainty,
all else steeped in mystery.
Why should we be here?
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170045
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The last time Cyrus rode in a train’s passenger car, he came home a dead man.
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170054
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I said, “That bird is hungry.”
The sparrow was eying both of us
At our separate outside café tables
As it hopped around looking for crumbs.
Then it would look up at us
Expectantly.
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