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served as it is/
among these friends.
The frayed filaments/
tickle my chin and irritate my nostrils,
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157544
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I assume the shape of a pronoun.
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157532
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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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157596
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I guess at the end you’re only
looking forward. Or upward actually,
since you can only lie there on your back
looking upward, straight ahead toward infinity,
your mouth in a grimace, with the ghostly
pink lips peeled back from the teeth.
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157553
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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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157565
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What a nation!
First we lost our money
Now we’ve lost our funny
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15752110
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The fly comes in against my will/
and hers. She would prefer/
the wider world with its piles of shit
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157552
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Hissing through the opening, the spirits have no place.
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15751511
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Early Spring, 1075, Northumbria: Judith, too ashamed to speak, too angry to cry, waves her handmaiden away. She wants no food. Wind drives icy rain across the thickness of…
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1575157
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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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157584
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The coal carts come and go like the seasons, never stopping.
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157534
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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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157574
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Francesco needed a magnifying glass to read her little missives.
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157461
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Mr. Wazzeldot has seven legs. He lives very comfortably. He likes to sit by the fire. There's a large cushion for a chair, and in the evenings, he sips his Bloody Marys. I know because I visit him…
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157432
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I unwrap my #4, the greasy smell wafting over my nostrils, and I pause, with the understanding that this will be the highlight of my day, and that I should savor the moment, and then I bite in.
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1574104
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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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157454
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I was always bi-polar. I didn’t realize it was a mental illness until my divorce lawyer had the court order a psychiatric analysis.
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157494
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Later, when she said she'd had miscarriages, I should have put it all together.
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1574127
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Mercury and Gemini disappointed.
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157432
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I turned a maiden to a witch / and back again
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157463
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Chant the ice cream mantra.
Prance the do dah day ballet.
Trot the t-bone tango two-step.
Dance the livelong day away.
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157454
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Christmas night was closing in at the Cantrips alehouse in Aberdeen, a firm favourite for riggers and other men and women who lived life close to the horizon. Sometimes, on a Saturday night, things might get a bit rowdy but Mother O'Grady would stand firm and bring out…
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157400
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Emi stood up and turned to Mayumi. She did not know what else to say. There was a sense of helplessness.
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157443
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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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157453
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My Aunt's husband liked to dress up like a clown
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157485
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When Frank entered Michiko’s apartment, Michiko was not there.
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157455
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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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157465
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We now live in post-Postmodern Absurdist fear of course, says our smiling Prof. That’s the price we pay he tells us. . . .
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157444
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However could anyone get Joyce scholarship mixed up with physical anthropology?
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157430
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Blend the dog a drink and sit down beside him and draw straws for regrets.
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