1621 11 10
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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.
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162150
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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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162121
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It is like truth on the battle field. Muted
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162100
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“You look strangely familiar,” he said, taking a drink and swinging his leg over the horse, landing on the ground beside me ...
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162154
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I had the idea for a pageant for my obedience school at spring graduation
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162196
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Scientists have discovered what I already did once on dope
way back in the Sixties.
There are so many other earths out there
that they are almost infinite.
Now in our other lives we have to
shuttle from planet to planet
reading our poems. And
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162184
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The coal carts come and go like the seasons, never stopping.
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1621118
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I can’t decide whether I want to be buried or cremated when I die.
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162065
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faith in gravity/permitted them to extol/the guillotine's blade.
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162095
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The number is very large/
and perpetually changes//
as old stars fade, explode,/
or collapse into something not stars
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162060
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Velvet answered the door in a red leather dress that was made with just about enough material to make a wallet, and looking like a long limbed drink of water calling out to a thirsty man.
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162011
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162074
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I don’t know what to do with all this money flowing from my books.
It’s burning a hole in my literary pocket.
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1620129
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anxiety
said Kierkegaard
is the dizziness
of freedom
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162081
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The thing Bentley remembered most about her was she had no body odor. None.
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16201110
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Paris is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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1620106
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There were only six passengers aboard the small ferry...
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162032
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Instead, I get things like,
“Why can’t you find a nice man with cancer or a bum leg?”
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16201411
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chains across all the old doors
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162055
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We pull up chairs. I breathe in her Bath and Body Works vanilla, read her paper slowly and aloud because the ears catch what the eyes miss. Her sentences are awkward, stilted.
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162000
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There was all this pomp and circumstance. We were each outfitted with robes, red of course, and mortar-boards with a gold tassel dangling over one eye. It made me positively dizzy. Plus I was extremely hung-over that day.
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162099
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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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162053
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162031
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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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162000
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Even if you're doing it together, there's no unity when everyone's dancing to their own tune.
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162033
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16201210
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1620157
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Mark Reep is a faded Polaroid oracle taped to the only unbroken window of an abandoned house in Ithaca NY.
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1620149
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everything moved in circles
like the music, the booze and the drugs
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162076
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In the panic following news of my motorcycle crash, my honey fled the house without coat or wallet, and now, nearly midnight, we don’t even have cab fare home.
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