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The boy was sure of something,She was just the one. The girl was sure of nothing, Her life had just begun. For him, he'd found his partner, There was never any doubt. For her, he was fine for now, But there was more to learn about. He thought it was a perfect…
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A week ago, Lina had felt a pain crack over her right eyebrow. It was there every day, creeping from her ear to the middle of her forehead.
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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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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
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Even when the sun is gone and things get dark, usually the moon comes to reflect some light of hope until a new dawn can emerge
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"I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence, memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime." Francis bacon “Feminine …
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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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“I’m tired, Art” The Virgin said. She was already curled up beside their dog,
Lance.
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...listening to the ache of errs our mouths had become.
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I must have been six years old at that time, but the events of…
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collars of obedience /
discarded in the pyre /
with draft cards and bras
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Girl with glasses and
skinny fingers
playing with wires
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If this is trouble, please call someone else.
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If you're a Boomer, your brain is teaming with decades-old Pop tunes that you just can't forget. The real reason you can never remember where you put your keys? Too many of your brain cells are clinging to every last lyric to “Fire and Rain,” “Free…
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"For several days thinking they had found a dead man’s boot beside the highway..."
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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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The kid with a testosterone chip
Instead of a brain
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Her smile dazzled me from across the room.
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He keeps saying it,
babbles the term like he knows what it means
and we wince and interject with mama,
mama,
mama,
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We were wild, medieval magpies,
sweaty and sweet and selfish; and so much more
than we were before I lit that first stick of spice,
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We know them just enough/
to recognize them when we find them.
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Her body: normal as a body, a baby’s body: skin and eyes.
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Once, asked what time it was, M. replied, "Eternity."
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What becomes the identity of a woman who has been denied all her rights and thrown into a mental institution?
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If I saw a little old man out there, a fellow with a hunched up back, I shouldn't be afraid.
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“Would you look at that one!” my father said.
“Who did she know?” my mother asked.
“Who did she blow?” my father said loudly, and burst out laughing. I laughed too, although I didn't know why.
My mother shot him one
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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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