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I paid the doctor / You paid the doctor
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157397
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in the much more terrorizing display/
of male pattern stupidity//
as seen so often on TV/
in the House and at Fox News.
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157382
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Running into the fire, the smoke and the chaos;
selfless first responders, innocent bystanders,
and dedicated runners
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157363
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rockstar, moviestar, literary supernova – burning out before all the planets are declassified.
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15731310
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You should never have believed your daddy when he said a man with half a dog was better off than a man with no dog at all.
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157321
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This was before the cancer, years before. He did this every day: up at five, before Astrid and Max. Four cups of coffee in the machine. A bowl of granola. Five hundred words. Five hundred words no matter goddamn what. Five hundred words on Sunday and Chri
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15731312
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Forty years later he was still her Romeo, she his Juliet.
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157312
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What a beautiful day it was, what a wonderful day to lose one's mind. This is what you think going into it, that it is all a wonderful dream come true, and sure I'll have my hands full, but at the end of the day it will be worth something. If I hang in long enough,…
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157254
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Facebook just hit me with an ad for coping with memory loss, probably because I just turned 63. As far as my favorite social media site is concerned, I am now an Old Lady. When I asked my Facebook pals who are also Seniors what kind of promotions have been turning up…
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157232
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"Why, before the summer has passed
You won’t remember her name. . ."
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157275
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The easiest and most legal way to pick up a woman is to take a single, writer friend with you to a bar. While there, look for the woman you are interested in. Her? Are you sure? Okay then. Next, tell your writer friend that the woman keeps looking at him when he's…
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157232
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I cut myself. Often. The bloodslice like thin lips parted/in prayer.
life’s color drained to ashen/as the old world spins, pirouettes/like a circus dog on the back/of a galloping horse.
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157200
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“Devil’s Pass.” It had the highest rate of vehicle fatalities per year in the entire State of Colorado. Everyone in my state drove like a bunch of stupid rejects, so I asked the guy just how many? He replied,
“Four thousand for the entire state!...Nin
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157271
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Things don't always go to plan. Gem knew what people would have said back then, of course. She wasn't stupid.
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157222
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Beautiful boy! I am doomed / to have attended your presence; / time consumes us, but you / have changed so little...
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157230
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157200
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THE LAST THING I WANTED, expected, or needed was to be standing in the doorway of Carly Ray's room, watching her clutch a picture of her father, my old friend Beryl, up to her face. She is so tiny, but at the same time there is something very adult about the way she looks.…
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1572115
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I didn't believe in hiding secrets or broken arrows. So I told my new girlfriend, who in earnest, tried shedding pounds like ugly memories, who glued herself to my shag carpet, watching exerise videos--that I didn't sleep alone. I tried to be as sensitive as possible,…
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157297
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Out in the world again, pretending to belong.
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157242
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Our dinner was over and we regretfully had to leave the restaurant. She leaves with enough shopping money for a few weeks. He, getting the rough end of the deal, has charged more money to his credit card at 19% plus cash withdrawal fees. So I ask myself
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157200
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Bobby took one out and looked at the date. "July 1965. Does that mean anything to you, Ma? Carla, T.J.?" Bobby handed the paper to my mother. "Why don't you spread it out on the counter to see if you can find something that he might have wanted…
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157274
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I break your flesh
and make music
on the harp of your bones.
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1572107
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I wander toward the midnight dock
a neon sine curve stabs my eyes
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157243
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The Rapture comes and goes unannounced in carbonated soda bubbles spicing the air.
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157211
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“We know you’re in there, motherfucker. Step out, slowly, and we might keep you fit for an open casket funeral."
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157111
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"Shit," said the Charge Nurse. "Not again."
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157163
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N-n-never screamscold a cat.
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157132
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How long have you been waiting for me? How long?
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157154
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The war they wage fills everything with holes.
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157143
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Atlanta, 1990The night we almost died,crushed at a one-hit wonder concert,comes back to mewhen the club announces it's closing.An ancient excelsior millturned industrial dance hall,I spent three years mapping every dark corner, finding secret places for sex and…
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