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“I guess I'm enchanted,” I'd written on another occasion.
“Then why don't you ride out here and save me? Is your horse lame or something? Maybe you could just kill me and make us both happy.”
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i dream a thousand interconnected pictures. i dream the future. i dream we are together. i dream i love you. i dream i am forgiven. i dream you care. i dream nice dreams. i go to the bank. i deposit my check. i pay the rent. i pet the cat. i…
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160900
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I was sleeping in a pile of teenage bodies soft limb spread over soft thin limb.
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16091715
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One of the men leaned over and spit long and dark next to where the dog lay curled. He said something about the senora, and the other men laughed.
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160965
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(the hourglass has not gone digital, oh no,/but these days, silicon is in with the sand)
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Don’t break things, I add. And he looks at me like I’ve broken everything else.
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160932
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His eyes were marbles floating over a void.
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Ascent/Assent
Together the horizon/
Catechism of love
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16092210
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Something about her eyes...
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160900
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We looked out into the darkness and then at our children. The dark of the forest was feeding them with ideas, filling their imaginations with things beautiful and things wicked.
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160933
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sometimes i have to be in the other room
just so i can breathe easy away from you.
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160840
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After sportscasters announced the assassination and while the reverberations of the words were still fading people were already shouting
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160864
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Her thirteen year old daughter had hung herself in the hallway closet of the old house. Now the closet was empty and unused. The door was locked.
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160800
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The women in the clinic called her misis luluai – it means white woman chief, it was a compliment.
She always wore crazy outfits. High heels and pantyhose. And tight, tight skirts. My wife never trusted her because of that
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160832
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Cat summoned for jury duty in Boston
Wayward hawk loose inside Library of Congress finally caught
(God only knows what happened to the doves)
Vacaville roof collapse blamed on bird droppings
These are a few of my favorite things
Piano mysterio
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160886
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Because we are exceptional,/
our 3000 dead in New York/
exceeds in impact that of 75,000/
burned at Nagasaki,
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160876
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“Somebody told me you write books.”
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My books wound you. They wound me / too.
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160861
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Fucking buffalo, the curse of the writer.
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160855
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The baby will not stop crying.
He’s been crying for three hours straight.
I’m the worst mother ever.
What kind of mother can’t soothe her own baby?
The bad kind.
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160855
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When Carol complained about a pain in her back, Frank didn't think much about it. Her back—especially her shoulders—hurt most of the time he'd known her, almost fifteen years, from sitting in front of a computer all day. It was an old story. “But …
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160800
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Jean-Pierre and Azure watched the security guards running around the building yelling, and Jane grabbed Azure’s arm while holding the radio.
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1608109
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At five o’clock Jake joins the crowd at the back door, walks through the slush to the parking lot with Betty Boop.
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160877
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I am my beloved’s Advil and
she is my Aleve
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160853
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No girl hits hard enough.
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160852
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Felix, vigorous vendor of Viagra and part-time picture framer, well-fed and fond and faithless as his spouse
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160874
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the stars might be the audience or they might not be
if the beat sits right next to me and hugs me nasty
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When the dust cleared, she saw him, standing silently, bow and arrow in his left hand. His face was the same as her middle brother's, broad and handsome, his dark eyes slits for light. This was her father. …
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It was an eagle in the waves
Those eyes make no mistake
Especially from a mile high
Blue fish and tuna
Too dumb to run
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