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...I am taut...my ankles ache...
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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I didn’t see the little boy run up to Bandit until it was too late. The kid was about four and was excited to see such a big dog. He reached out his hand to pat Bandit’s head and Bandit lunged at him. The leash was wrenched from my hand, leaving a bloody
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When it starts looking bad enough, I bundle up and head out the door.
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Much as the cockerel crows the break of day/ So, too, has our love similar herald,
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This story* is brought to you by
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I’m decades in and it hasn’t gone away.
In all other respects, I am normal. Life
is hard, but I’m not complaining. The thing
is, I am in a constant state of falling.
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Frank shouldered his backpack, grabbed the leather satchel packed with his brushes, palette knives, pens, and pencils, and exited the vaporetto at the Rialto Bridge.
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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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If I seemed disappointed after our conversation,
then, for the record, that was never the case.
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When you're scared to write badly, that's when you write. You are probably trying to tell the truth.
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Pinnacles
State Park
lying on our backs
stoned on hash
around a campfire
looking up at the
clear see-through
blue green stars
to the other side
of the universe
I know now
you are out there
I float up to
within 2
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Nicole knows that Deirdre is winding up for the weekly pitch, practicing the line in her mind.
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His daddy died in his sleep. Went to bed one might and never got up.
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I walk through nameless
streets, narrow and winding,
past shops selling scarves,
spices, skins.
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I am not covetous for catnip,
Nor care where I sleep at night.
It irks me not who takes my
Favorite chair, or swats me off a table.
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My brother used to hang a pair of panty hose over his fireplace before Christmas. He said all he wanted was for Santa to fill them ..
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May 1890 Rifle, COLORADO Only pressure can change one thing into another. In terms of time, the…
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Many hours to make a brick: many bricks to make a curve.
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I smell it, it smells/Of giggles and leg shaking
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The combined smells of ocean breeze, grilled cheese sandwiches, incense and sweat and burning herb that wafted over from Shakedown, along with windblown notes from tinny car speakers all rolled into a potent sensory cocktail he hadn’t tasted in far too l
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I could hide away in this tower
But I am Rapunzel
And I will let down my hair
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—So much for a cocktail at the tender hour of twilight, he told the empty beer bottle.
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It was two days to town. His horse could only go one.
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He sat at the bar and waited for her. He looked at the noon drinkers with indifferent eyes.
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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.
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