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165541
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We cannot love the past...
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1655107
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The tech turns off the music. The capsule blares. I am in Jurassic Park with Sam Neill. I am Timmy, descending the electrified fence, almost toast. I am Karen Silkwood, a deer in the headlights, then showering off plutonium. A garbage truck is compacting
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165534
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They were just boys, the Nazis I mean, young in their twenties, not much older than my brother Cyril.
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165421
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The supervisor, sensing the fear in me, pats my hand and says "Never you mind! This is normal in the tomato. Every few days we rile up, make sauce, and regrow again. Have you ever been in spaghetti sauce before?"
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165495
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The world doesn'tend just becauseyou want it to.Bonus poems:The Poet(Series 1)by Darryl PricePoet in a TreeYeah, well, it's not up here either. Although the everything and nothing view is nice. Only because it doesn't have any abandoned cars in it. I'm…
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165444
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The man wore a bowler hat and stood on an open patch of grass, with a pyramid-shaped stack of baseballs at his feet.
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165443
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Write power
like a purring kitten
eyes wide
without an idea of exactly
how small he is.
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165432
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I turned a maiden to a witch / and back again
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165410
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It was the middle of May when I found out my teacher was screwing my mother.
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165431
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He came to a spot on the edge of the strawberry fields where he liked to sit with his brother and watch the turkey buzzards circle overhead
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165411
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There is no cement stronger than the one holding a miserable couple together.
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1654126
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because you pay/
for it to matter to me.
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165400
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Can you see the rut? Can you dig your fingers into the flesh?
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165311
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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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165310
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She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?
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165374
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They found it naught however as it was lost at metro stops, canceled appointments and in ever dimming light that failed to reflect what was instead of what could have been.
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16531810
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I loved without marriage and the men loved without divorce and we loved a twenty-four-year-old eating and how gracious she shone over a tame bottle of beer.
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165321
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The leaves were meaningless because they were no longer connected to the trees.
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165300
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Street by street, non-combatants ran away. Each one passed by the Society and law enforcement screaming.
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165371
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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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165333
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his mother brought him to me/ when he was very young/ maybe a few months old,/ born in arizona july.
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165320
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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165376
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I keep attempting to start a correspondence with people / but they end up not being interested in me, / either that or I scare them away / because I usually begin with: / “Well, my favorite philosopher is Hegel..."
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165343
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Her back turned, she wanders off
searching for the way home
wringing her hands,
trying to think, but thoughts
evade her.
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165398
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we name invasive species,
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1653114
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The flash of love was real, the life within her was real, and the main thing now was to climb.
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165377
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A new philosophy stirs in its surgery.
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165353
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I sat at the kitchen counter, aware of a heaviness, a numbness, in my flesh, my bones, my mind. My dancer's body -- short, trim and 108 pounds -- felt as huge and unmoving as the…
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165222
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There's a large tunnel that runs under my house. I can only estimate but it's not deep below the ground and that's what worries me.
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