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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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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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My Aunt's husband liked to dress up like a clown
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“Life is on life’s terms,” she told me once. Her arm, wrapped in clear cellophane, was freshly adorned with a green-pigmented sand-dollar: a living shell.
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because you pay/
for it to matter to me.
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My mind raced at the endless possibilities one could die while driving to get a pizza.
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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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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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faith in gravity/permitted them to extol/the guillotine's blade.
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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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It was two days to town. His horse could only go one.
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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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Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.
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Tell me everything about yourself, if I could care, I can pretend, let me pretend.
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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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One can watch the grass green/
in response. One can watch the world green/
in response.
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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.
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That Orndoff! I'd like to shove that pipe of his up his arse.
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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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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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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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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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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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Q: What's the best song to sing to your doc before cataract surgery?
A: I Only Have Eyes For You
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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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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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From room to room, neither closet nor drawer contained any remnant of pleasant memory.
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The knees remind you: you are old,/
and broken, and unlikely to improve
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