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I Charles had always been bad at small talk, especially when the other person wasn't helping by taking part. “What're we doing after this?” He asked. Hiro's reply was to frown at…
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I don’t know how some can do it. Can they just walk off the animal in the yard or something, and forget about love altogether? Some have that built-in coldness of the soul, I guess. I don’t get it. The blood does not seem to shake their hearts. Are th
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I would open an eye, waiting for it to absorb the scant light in the room, and I would see her on the far edge of the bed, the topography of her hips now a battlement to keep me at bay.
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It wasn't pain
but half of it,
so half of it I mended
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"and I turned to you, at some joke we shared,
and saw winter ease its hand,"
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goes on and on. Like it's a sad mad season on Mars, well it isn't, is it? Sometimes I have towonder whatever happenedto us, to make us forget how well we already know how tosing as good as any larks do? I have never wantedto drown, but I've…
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"People are stupid. They've always been stupid. But these days...." His voice trailed off. "Dumb and dumber, huh?" the Boss asked. Peter nodded.
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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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What are our reigning philosophies today, what dominant schools inform and lead our intellectual efforts, inspire our blissful reveries, inflame our breathless humanity?
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Listening is loving.
What is more erotic than
these fathoms, skeins, words,
roping tight the ardent ear.
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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror
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an undercurrent of fear is running through my community
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Alysia grabbed her luggage and rolled it behind her. Looking up at the sky, it was nighttime. She could see the crescent moon above, adding to the darkness.
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Once the limits of human commitment to logic are conceded, cuttlefish may in fact be deemed superior logicians to all other aspirants.
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They perch on the curb in front of the factory, like so many rail thin crows exuding smoke from their haggard beaks.
They've been here.
They've been here a long while.
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The commodore drives a 67 Caddy rag top
All fin and boatish power
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leaves, starlings and other words fall into thickets of orange or green grasses or tendrils or snakes
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Everybody will be talking about it
on campuses across the country
“Hey! You’ll never guess who’s toilet
I bought. I’m not shitting you!”
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That evening she sat on sofa and sniffled and twisted her handkerchief with her fingers. I decided it wasn't the right time to show her the picture....
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“Tell me a story,” he said, toying with his top hat, running his fingers along its brim.
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I find myself in an unfamiliar restaurant, its cuisine an uncomfortable pastiche of Croatian, Burmese, Jamaican and leftovers of long ago Sunday dinners in a small New England town.
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There are problems we lovingly fashion . . .
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A crash, a loud tear screams through the house. A coffee table continues its dutiful life as a bitch.
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You first hear about the wildfire on the old kitchen radio.
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She’s changed leaves to emeralds. Worn a shawl of inked birds’ wings.
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They wanted to go fresh water fishing, so I had to buy worms. None there in the saltwater town. Drove about 10 miles over the long bridge to cross the bay. I'd been there before. Walked in and a crusty, little skinny man got up from his chair. He: Watcha need? Me: Fresh…
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Locked at the highest rung
Unable to budge at all
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