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Momma pointed out our paintings on the walls, the signs we had learned, but when Daddy saw our friends, their wheelchairs, braces on their legs, he left...
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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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My sister / craves raisons
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142231
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My dad was an Army Reservist stationed in the U.S.—New York and Texas—the bugler in his corps. He golfed on summer weekends at Hazeltine in the course of his career. I had seen houses water colored prettily within the lines on L.S.D., after noticing not
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142242
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Light youth
that
barely touches the
ground
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142255
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pens loaded with ink/exceeding or equal to/my volume of blood.
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142221
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142200
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mis-placed
the change
she goes looking for.
her folks
missed another hour...
her worth-while spent wasting
the voice wouldn’t leave the leaves alone.
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The arrangements of lights on the cracking towers are a segment of Orion’s belt, the handle of the Big Dipper and a section of Andromeda’s spine.
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Larry works the concession stand / near the pier.
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142222
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“I’m pregnant,” he says...
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142277
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I am my beloved’s Advil and
she is my Aleve
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14221111
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Why do people kill themselves with food? It’s obvious, I suppose. They’re hungry.
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142211
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I like babies and little kids, more than some people but goddamn, children's laughter out of nowhere (in the night, when you're not expecting it) is creepy. I don't like slugs smeared like nightmare goo on my summer-bare feet, I could do without them in …
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142251
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She wasn't even trying to live.
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142153
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"My ex Maxine claimed red wine was the healthy alcohol choice. When we were married and I still had money she drank the expensive stuff, as if drinking Chateau Montrose 2005 instead of two buck chuck made her any less of a wino. She would have been better
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Warning: some of this is true, some of this is not.
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In the summer when it's light out later it's my nature to linger a couple of hours in the park after work, just standing around watching the Downtown Divas working the corner, offering themselves to each male driver who stops for the light and I always joke with them about…
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142174
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Everybody breaks.
Everything splinters.
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142130
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Everything needs context, otherwise reality would be nothing more than stardust with a spark.
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142198
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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"
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142144
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Betrayal of course is the great human crime. As I found out when . . . .
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142151
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I lift up my sweatshirt and reach with a full fist into my belly button. This is where the fat comes out.
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142172
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This is what it is to feel yourself forget.
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The mind sparkles with Shakespeare. It's like hearing the rain fall. The world becomes silent and dark and the rain becomes snow and falls like snow and rests on the ground like snow and informs the mind with the values of heaven. A distant oboe pins its sympathies…
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I sneak glances of her unhooking the clasp, taking it off, so that her back is bare, and I can see the muscles, the bones underneath move as she puts the new one on...
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Frank sat next to her on the gurney and squeezed her hand. "You're going to be okay, Astrid. You're going to wake and it's going to be over and you're going to be okay."
"You don't know that," she said.
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