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“You have no idea what your lives will be like if you can get out of the ‘hood. You could be driving Volvos, eating Tuscan cuisine, getting MacArthur ‘genius’ grants!”
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In order to be a catalyst for catharsis — which is just a fancy way of saying agent of change — you have to be willing to condition yourself into something partially inhuman. Only something on the very outskirts of humanity…
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The sound built up, louder and louder causing birds and insects to fly into the air. Then it stopped.
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... and the train pulls up and my shadow from yesterday steps off, and I'm standing on one leg balancing just like the weather between winter and spring, I hear a siren and my heart races, I'm about to step aboard when I hear footsteps behind me and two hands cover my eyes…
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I figure maybe I’m mostly alone; they are all running down staircases or falling down fire escapes, some of them naked, some of them with towels, mostly probably naked though.
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I was ashamed of my conscience.
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remembering Cahokia, a place we rent near the water's edge, for we dare not enter
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I stomped up the steps clearing my shoes of snow. I was wearing my Rooskie fur hat with the ear flaps, and I kept it on when I went inside.
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If this is trouble, please call someone else.
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Although badly educated, and although the Michoacána fought to deny it, she held the complex notion that borders are not abrupt lines, simple artifacts of geography and cartography.
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The dowdy woman in fart nailed the vim.
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It doesn't take a genius to figure how he sank, in the drink, like Jeff Buckley. Like a stone.
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An yet we are all inmates...
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When we talked about the lasagna, we were, I see now, talking about different things. I.e., I was talking about lasagna, and you were talking about almost everything but. You weren't talking about the dry, burnt noodles or…
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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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My wife tells me/your dog has vomited/
on the carpet AGAIN!
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fetal position can make a man seem small. harmless. like the child your womb won't carry...
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Essences of bull and bison,//
stag and horse, illuminate/
the stony underground.
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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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He liked to take pictures of her, and she liked to pose. It made her horny, she said.
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there should be a word for it.
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It is the first day of summer, a blue-green afternoon, and we sit beneath the English oak, Quercus robur. Everything has at least two names. It is the first day of summer, or the last day of something else.
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Polylinguists lash me
with tongues I cannot conjugate
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THIS is what happened — the dead went into remission. Dated may 10 2010. Or it could have been some other day. They were going to be restored later. That's what we were being told. The dead were being given stones to mark their remission. They were getting…
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A heart which is alive despite everything in the world that wants to deaden it.
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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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His mother named him Far because she had high hopes for him
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