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And I don't know how long it will be until she comes outside and figures it all out.
Figures me out.
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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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156711
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Barbie wore only her clear pink heels...
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156743
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We decide not to go to the emergency room
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156721
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Allie didn't share that moment with Jim. That moment he spoke about whenever they made new friends as a couple— that moment he planned to recount at their engagement party.
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She bought a dog with short legs to make her own legs look longer.
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Except with the language I was born to./
Occasionally, with painters and collagists-//
dead now, typically- who can’t voice/
opposition to my misappropriations.
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156786
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My wife tells me/your dog has vomited/
on the carpet AGAIN!
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156772
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"Penning a slight of tongue well versed
or worse, a salacious lie..."
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156766
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The Misses Moses by Brad Watson from Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives The Moses sisters lived together, alone, in the fine old brick house near downtown where they…
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Today I'm feeling fertilized by an egg—
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156744
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* Dedicated to Bernie MaddoffThere was a long line at the men's room.You know,when men reach a certain age,there is an urgencyto their frequent trips.So I saw an opportunityI said:" I know Bernie I can get you in.""Really?," they saidbut I played it coy"It ain't easyBernie…
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156733
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A small bar of glycerin soap floated in the sink full of bloody water . . .
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156700
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I was awakened by a disturbing dream. He was no longer with me and I felt afraid. Everything was cloudy, almost blurry. I couldn't see much in front of me, but I knew for sure he wasn't there with me. Then he said the words I feared the most “I don't love you.…
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156765
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In your mouth is the attic studio
Where your father’s brushes lie wet with water
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156754
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Bill decided he hated his neighbors on a Sunday morning in June.
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156700
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My gaze could have gutted any man. Any man, but John Marcy. History would write that John Marcy was a traitor to his country. Public enemy number one in the state of New York. When that probably couldn’t be farther from the truth.
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156611
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Then he took the tune out to Ben Clarone land. The horn was beautiful, if leaky. His fingers flew over the keys.
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156644
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She Waited for the other Shoe to Drop
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I laughed maniacally in my head at the thought, but I kept picking at it all the same, the bunnies had plans for us.
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156681
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The dowdy woman in fart nailed the vim.
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Susan said since her divorce three years ago there have been too many Jacks in her life. Seven, if she counted that older guy. She knew that now. Too many. It was the name and little else that drew her to men. She told me the name alone was like Pavlov's bell. It…
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1566126
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Defy the impulse to grow beyond/
your means and the means of the/
place where you lie at night.
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Emma Louise is walking over a concrete bridge when she spies, out of the corner of her eye, a man fishing, waist deep, in the river tumbling below. She is thinking that the water must be very cold on this autumn day, when she sees an extraordinary thing.
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1566104
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I hold them to the light...
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156662
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Living lower on the hog than anticipated
lower on the hog than previously expected
lower on the hog than desired
Living on the underside of the hog belly
pretty much bouncing on the ground
beneath the aforementioned hog belly
Living clos
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In the summer that my mother returned from wherever she had gone after her divorce, she and I moved to a large, old farmhouse high on a hill, far from the town where I had grown up. The farmhouse was over a hundred years old and no one had lived in it for…
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