1548 8 7
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I supposed reluctantly that Princeton is soft as Macalester College is soft. A person could die just for having attended U.W.-Madison or Yale.
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154800
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The Kid, The Executive, The Doctor, and The Actress.
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154822
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Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.
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154898
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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"
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154843
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. . . the empiricism of the mechanical had wound tight into her, lessons her few calendars could never impart without aid from sundials, hourglasses, clocks.
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15481110
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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.
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154800
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That Orndoff! I'd like to shove that pipe of his up his arse.
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1548108
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15482114
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I don't believe in symbols
but there's a hole
in my living room window
in the shape of a bird
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1548104
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feet that would run until their soles were pages of Gideon’s Bibles, worn too thin to touch
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154899
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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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154831
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My mind raced at the endless possibilities one could die while driving to get a pizza.
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154831
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The blackout lasted longer than anyone thought. From my fifth story window, the whole city seemed to shut down. I heard noises above me. How could it be?
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1547710
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From room to room, neither closet nor drawer contained any remnant of pleasant memory.
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154765
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faith in gravity/permitted them to extol/the guillotine's blade.
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15471410
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The knees remind you: you are old,/
and broken, and unlikely to improve
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154700
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Two angels walk in a dark cloud arm in arm
discussing the nature of good and evil
Walking along in flowing robes now that nakedness
is forgot, and they both stare at the same eternal thought
with their heads bowed as serenity is the only thing
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15472412
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One can watch the grass green/
in response. One can watch the world green/
in response.
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154741
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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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154750
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I made her a mix tape. It was revolutionary. Twenty-two songs she had to hear at least once in her life. I even drew some trippy drug-like designs on the label of the CD to make it seem more real. It was the ocean and the sun and every body of land balled up…
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154775
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TV and power cord valorized in dust,/
wires and digital guts unimpaired, I’d guess . . .
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154765
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Remember when we went to New York to take our test? We looked for cheap hotels near the test site, and there was the "Hotel Earle." Twelve bucks a night. The clerk behind bullet-proof glass, smiling a knowing smile. Pubes still on the sheets, but we couldn't sleep anyway,…
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154731
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When our body falters, deny us rest.
When our minds crack under the strain, forbid us sanity.
When we are too tired to fight give us war.
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154721
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Are you a hostile person who gets into trouble when you express your anger? Would you like to annoy the hell out of people and get away with it?
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154785
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1546114
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He is leaning back against a pillar watching the dancing; a spectator to joy – both planned and spontaneous – that’s unfolding in bodies fourteen and fifteen years old in front of him.
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154685
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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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154640
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After sportscasters announced the assassination and while the reverberations of the words were still fading people were already shouting
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154687
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First he wrote it in wet cement at the intersection:
“Tad Loves Kimberley,”
with a big heart around it.
He was real proud, you could see.
But then later on that year, the graffiti began
appearing everywhere, on all the store walls:
“Kimberle
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154641
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At a rest stop in Montpelier, they stopped to buy Cokes and gum from the vending machines. He was showing off, trying to jimmy one of the locks with a safety pin but it stayed locked and she laughed at him and he said goddamn, look at all a them Milkyways
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