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How does a mixed couple come together in the Troubles?
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Cat fight. I rush outside and swinging my trusty broom I charge the rolling yowling ball of black fur.
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In those years,
you and I were told to leap
for a world suffused with sound
and industry.
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He repeated these six words like a prayer. His only confession.
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The songs that she used to sing to him still dance in his head while he wrangles equations. The stars in the cosmos spell out her name.
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I was quite alone in this small room with the tarp and the dying fire.
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“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”
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as distant lights
all must shiver
before joining in
a Milky Way river
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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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Third time that day, he was on me. On me like bees to a flower (or flies on shit, he'd correct me, no doubt). Sucking sweet nectar and breathing that breath — damn that breath — 'round my head, in my ear, pestering, bugging, like a bee he annoyed me.
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“Hi. I’m Rita Bates,” I had said. “Can I sit here?
The boy who introduced himself as Thomas told me I could, so I did, and his friends all introduced themselves in turn. Around the table there was Bev, Ernest, someone whose name started with an F – maybe
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When our kids were very young, my wife and I believed it was important to give our children traditions that they could grow up with. One such tradition that we shared each Thanksgiving was to walk down by the cliffs along the ocean. We'd all go, our kids…
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I fully intend to show Hamilton the delights of soft Oriental carpeting and a delicious new position I learned not long ago. It involves a silk scarf, a leather strap and some aromatic herbs.
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—It’s difficult to say, he said. I have mood swings. Women don’t like that. They become upset.
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She’s changed leaves to emeralds. Worn a shawl of inked birds’ wings.
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THE man in the tent with the stick points to the chart on the wall and says to us all: the stats point to the end of the war by the end of the fall. A just war, not just oil. Just then Allah's shadow comes over the scene. He's here to stiffen his troops with some …
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Her body: normal as a body, a baby’s body: skin and eyes.
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Floating along the ebbs of the ocean,toward the horizon, where time has no say,an end that will never be reached.
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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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I have a tablet called, The Shit List...
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beat them with fists and purses.
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There’s an unending parade of drifters, outlaws and crazies and I always have to watch my back, but, then again, that’s nothing new.
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Don't throw earth on bones.
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My little friend is no bigger than a minute. An even five feet tall, if that.
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His mother named him Far because she had high hopes for him
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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
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Later, your father stared, confused, at the empty spot where the wall paint layers ended in the shape of the old machines. He stopped coming in.
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He'd hung above her head for months.
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MOSAIC Your eyes coal-rimmed, busted, burned by betrayal. You and I, knee to knuckle, skinny with disorders and blurred around our edges. Challenged by our experience and the ash of past-love dusting the grate, the state, the…
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