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[WARNING: DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 'R XMAS!]
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155854
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“Sixty-seven responses!” Al Edelstein announces at the first meeting of the search committee. It has been just two weeks since Rabbi Feldman dropped dead of a heart attack and just a week since the congregation ran the ad: “Help Wanted: Orthodox Rabbi. Im
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I can't take it bird by bird because I have neither.
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I bit her ear and /
it was burnt toast
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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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Mrs. L. was sitting on a love seat in her nightgown. She was sitting in a man’s lap....
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His wife had just come from the gynecologist and was toying with her French fries.
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The Mojave Desert remembers Ron Paul
With tattered billboards
Scraped and clawed by vehement dust
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Trigger warning: casualties of war.
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—Frank, how is your sex life?
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The questions we ask ourselves define who we are as a culture. “What is the meaning of life?” “Is there a God?” “Does anybody really know what time it is?” “Where the hell did I put my car keys?” To see what…
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1558107
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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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I’ve just moved to New York City and, somehow, Scarlett Johansson is at the same party I’m at.
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I spent most of those days in my car. Stashed in the trunk was a cache of precious stones, neatly sorted and separated, bound in smooth black velvet inside a smooth black briefcase.
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"Shit," said the Charge Nurse. "Not again."
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155711
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It’s last call for the Class of 2001, their five-year reunion drawing to a close, and Brenner, in his standard t-shirt and holey jeans, has just arrived.
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Have you ever spent twilight in a old pasture?
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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Charles the Bold is holding a pen.
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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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unwrapping
the gauze from her wrists....
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The instant you remember
gratitude
with enough focus to spring free its power...
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There was a certain romanticism in it, the salty old man sidling up to me at a bar, rhapsodizing in a slurred stream of conscious about the state of the world, the country, the state of his own heart. He didn't have an eye patch nor beard, nor was he…
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Her funeral was scheduled for the following Monday, and of course Claudia would attend. Trouble was, Monday was a workday for my parents. So when neither Mother nor Claudia could find somebody else on short notice to keep me, it was decided that I would a
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155654
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...That flash of horror as well as the lie that replaced it were mirrors of sorts and both told the truth.
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155654
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The war they wage fills everything with holes.
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A shadowless torpedo shaped form plummeted from the grey, overcast skies upon the many unsuspecting. No remote pilot thousands of miles away guided this particular descent.
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155665
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I dragged you that last half mile Me such a slip of a thing, one bite mark visible You the bear, your growl now only audible When you furred from kerb to road to kerb The December snow followed us Dragging Christmas red behind you As I ignored my…
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