1525 2 2
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Suppose Eve, strolling through the sunlit Garden, had not stumbled on that particular Tree at all, the wily serpent twined in its lower branches?
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152586
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If I seemed disappointed after our conversation,
then, for the record, that was never the case.
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152575
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One day it was boring / to be alive.
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152485
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Today clouds were dancing on the moon
Moon had a fit but drew in a breath
And let out a sigh
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1524710
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From room to room, neither closet nor drawer contained any remnant of pleasant memory.
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15241210
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We can’t be sure. Perhaps it is/
some slight exaggeration of one/
or several elements that steals our breath.
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152400
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Gravity? What does that have to do with writing or with this improbable tether of blue marbles?
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152400
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"Nothingness had had enough. Nothingness had become militant. It had bought a camouflage jacket. It grew an afro. It burned its bra. Nothingness was pissed, and it wanted its stuff back."
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152451
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152441
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Just beyond the tree, beyond the fence, close to the grey clouds that hung almost to the earth, a boy sat on another tree's stump. Beneath his crossed legs that he moved up and down rhythmically, under his bright red, Superman shorts, inscribed in the stump, a symbol which…
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152420
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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152454
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The coin, so little, the watch chain, the youth, the fading softening speech, each hand and finger, the panic modeled on your own eyes, the ashtray, certain stumps along the way, the long distance, the odd feather, the jazz rope gone,…
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152452
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"I found a grey pubic hair the other day."
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152499
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I’m from the Land of Sky Blue Waters. I grew up in a lake. I think I’m half fish.
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152496
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Erased. Like chalk across my body,
a fine powder of forgetfulness,
with a few swipes --- all those names
and faces, gone. The letters burned.
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152331
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I’ve got a full day ahead of me; I have to write a brief in Lipshutz v. Fredbird, a property damage claim against the St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot for breaking a fan’s glasses as part of his routine.
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1523104
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"Middle class workers and working class poor and the unemployed will soon be forming a revolutionary movement to break this stranglehold of corrupt elites."
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152384
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even from the moon our planet’s truth has not been seen.
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152342
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Anatoly Gringovitch was listening to the dress rehearsal of Hausenstockmann’s Constellations at Auditorium Rainier III in Monte Carlo.
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15231815
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When I first met Luther he was sitting on the sidewalk, his back pushed up against a vacant storefront wall, thumbing through the “help wanted” section of a few-days-old copy of our local paper and I was moved to offer him a couple of dollars for which he said,…
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152377
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To tell the truth, I can’t complain. Look, lots of people have it tough. I don’t have it tough...
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152300
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I'm a jogger of these parts, but I've yet to discover a dead body, or even dead body parts, or worse yet, discover that my parts will be discovered by some unfortunate jogger.
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1523109
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Margaret will take her seven away from his raging Irish hammers slurry Saturday night honks smashing red eyes. They'll board a secret train countryside bound where they sing the songs of her own dead Mam who lived poor in the world but…
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152353
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Buyers of freelance writing have a well-deserved reputation for responding slowly, thereby increasing your pleasure in much the same way that the Pointer Sisters longed for a slow hand.
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152365
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What a nation!
First we lost our money
Now we’ve lost our funny
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152375
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TV and power cord valorized in dust,/
wires and digital guts unimpaired, I’d guess . . .
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152311
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“It felt like the space under my skin had been filled with desert sand. I did not open my eyes for my body was covered with the dust. A camel could have walked over me and not noticed. I needed to wipe my eyes before I could open them and my body was froz
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152300
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They were working on the factory floor when they died, the auspices of mayhem filtering out to a host of ravens gleaning the neighboring fields. Clouds of them fled the scene around the time of the incident turning the day into twilight…
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152330
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Blend the dog a drink and sit down beside him and draw straws for regrets.
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152354
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It was uncomfortable to realize people had agendas. That there could be invisible realities.
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