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This new kid on the block, named Miller, showed up out of the blue one day, while we were throwing rocks and boulders down on this flimsy gray sheet of construction plywood that was covering an open trench in front of a new house on our block. One of the
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Polylinguists lash me
with tongues I cannot conjugate
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The moon hung in the sky, round and pale, under cover of some wispy clouds.
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Why yes I began writing this, my bildungsroman, Who is Mitsy Jackson, in spring, 1974 or thereabouts, and thank you so much for asking.
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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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A spire
that had stood one hundred and forty years
fell in
a single second of the blackest day.
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After years of unsustainable binge spending and a global economic semi-meltdown, most people have had to cut back on their expenses. Many folks are struggling to make do in this new and bewildering economy and we are all learning to live on our means, rather than beyond…
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It’s just that—well, I don’t know how to put this—
With a Dadaist poet a non-affair is the height of erotic bliss.
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With a roar and short burst of flame, the dragon awoke, startled.
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I fear my personal information travels the World Wide Web/
and mad Ukrainians will steal my name and wealth./
I fear the fiscal cliff and raising the ceiling on national debt./
I fear a death by taxes.
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She left knives and hot pots with handles akimbo. Like a guardian angel, he turned them in. Like an ungrateful Eve, she turned them back out.
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After he got on one knee, and she said, I do. After they watched the televised bombs disappear the city. After everyone fell asleep. After shock and awe, him and her making love…
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She said, “I think I’m pregnant,” but I thought that the sidewalk looked cleaner than usual,
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an EZ How to Guide in 50 simple steps
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The door shuts slowly to something that’s allegedly mine
and it sits there and waits until I come home
just like you.
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The army was bulldozing grandmother's house.
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When I cook sausages, I am afraid I will not let them sit in the pan long enough, and they will be pink inside. Then, even if the pigs have been handled humanely, I and the person for whom I've prepared this meal will be at risk for some terrible stomach poisoning.Let's say…
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She wakes up with rosemary.
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there should be a word for it.
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...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
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a mere forty years/and maybe you become twelve,/maybe sixty-three.
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His looks were polished like his shoes, his hair as black. No one would have guessed he made his living as a thief.
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The next week, she sends a small white box in the mail / with tissue paper, a ceramic mold the color of bleached bone—
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my mouth is open, ready to bite your tiny toes
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If I should wake/
before I die,/
just shoot me through/
the one good eye.
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forced to submit/
to reasonableness//
and universal healthcare.
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Sure my man. Show me the token I’ll show you the slice.
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Takashi and Hideki stared at the pool of grey Mana. A scientist carefully contained some of the mist into a container.
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If the Titanic rises from the bottom of the sea,
I will meet you on deck, in a deck chair.
Fully dressed for a change.
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-Love is a rushing
of blood
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