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I remember a big Walgreen’s Drug store (maybe in Elmhurst, or Oakbrook Center?) and this shopping expedition we went on. That’s where you bought your first Dust Buster, I believe (or was this another man?) Anyway, you made me carry everything. We didn’t
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I awake one morning to find that still,
the leaves continue to fall.
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I struck up a conversation with the cricket. We talked about Super Nintendo and cookies and we fell asleep on the boulder. The next morning, I woke up and offered the cricket a donut. He enjoyed the donut thoroughly...
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Unreasonable anger, Each hour prescribed
The house haunted
with good intentions,
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Shadows are so admirable in film noir
less so on x-rays and mammograms
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"Ah, finally the rain stopped pouring!" She opens the window to let the sticky air out of the house. The colours outside have changed. The air is clear and the sky turns into light pink while the sun is drowning at the horizon. She takes a deep breath. The…
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For you have waited. And waited and waited. And soon your slice of bread will be ready.
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She didn’t think of herself as an undesirable, no, she didn’t, but did find herself cowering in face of the presumed judgment of those around her. They had more money, more clout, more everything.
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...the scream and the face...
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I enjoyed the talking part though
rambling on and on for lord knows
why or how
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True facts about Redbeard the communist pirate.
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Beautiful,
a country left abandoned by the parade path.
The soldiers that typically occupy this place,
temporarily removed to neighboring lands;
congregating together,
backs to the native.
I benefit from the accidental diversion.
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On the coldest day of the year, the weather man walks back from the measurement booth across a snowed-over plain, solid as cement and tinted with the pale yellow glow of the northern lights.
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The kid with a testosterone chip
Instead of a brain
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She sometimes ate her dinner standing up, in front of her living room window.
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no more trying to keep / the peace, no more trying / to keep every person happy. / Just this: no more.
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anxiety
said Kierkegaard
is the dizziness
of freedom
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I’ll tell you what’s wrong
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I assemble myself daily//
from the ready-mades/
of a fast talking world,
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I can hear the echoes clearly. They are distinct and crisp, almost as though they're all on exact trajectories to me from their final bounce, without any interference. Each sound, while unintelligible, seems to fit perfectly and expectantly into my ears
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I wonder, God. Do you sit around and play with the universe like it was your Wii? Or your Farmville? Or maybe your little iphone app? I mean, really. Did it ever occur to you that the little men, women and children on your screen actually bleed? Do you think…
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They meant no harm when they flooded farms in its swirls and eddies
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The instant you remember
gratitude
with enough focus to spring free its power...
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I'm in Joel's front yard when I dodge the third call from my divorce lawyer. I'm here for Joel; I can't seem to show up anywhere unless it's for someone else. We watch his son, Andy, push his bike up the hill. This is the…
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I packed food for a lifetime, clothes and boots, all the guns, and the audio of our poetry...
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Suds, like gossamer bandages at her wrists, concealed the turbulence below but could not relieve it.
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It performs the dialectic that intertwines real and ideal through her mounting concern about being choked to death then eaten by a very large pig.
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I could hide away in this tower
But I am Rapunzel
And I will let down my hair
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