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“The window is a much better place to read,” she said.I wasn't aware she was talking to me, at first. In my typical manner, I was thinking about far off possibilities and realities completely detached from my own. Yet, here she was, a far off…
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I let go of my properties, my work.
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Oh Triple-Crownéd who evades my sight,/ Guide me down proper crossroads in this life/ As you have promised to grant me your might/ And make of me eternity's fair wife.
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“Now,” my friend said. “Tell us about earthquakes. Can we expect one anytime soon?”
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Polite society will cheer/
as another body is discovered//
and disposed of. The cheers/
will drown out the gasps
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He did many things for love: Once he placed his tongue in his boyfriend’s nostril during sex, because he seemed to have read in the internet that this was a “thing” among the younger of their social class...
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It’s End of the World Karaoke at Big Daddy’s and Lara takes a photo of herself for Facebook before she goes on stage. She’s holding a basket of nachos in one hand and her phone in the other. After she takes the photo, she says, to Javier, “Hold these,” an
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I am a buttress against chaos. And now I am turning yellow.
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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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money ain't nothin next to lovin.
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if you don't quiver with anticipation you'll barely manage to explode
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Sitting on the couch when we got cable television, on that first day. Pressing buttons that sounded like the slap that your attention span would take as you made your way through the twenty, thirty, forty channels. As you grew older, the amount of channel
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I wrote her a poem.She said, “I hate poetry.” I said, “OK, just read the words then."
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Almost every weekend I'd ask Henry to go out with me and Marge, telling him we could double and, hey, maybe he could bring Ellen, who he dated a while back, who still asked about him. I'd suggest such things as going to a movie or out for a few drinks to reminisce about our…
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We bought a grand piano at Steinway Hall after 9/11, chased uptown by the dust of death and awakening from dreams of miniature jumpers stuck in the icing of white wedding cakes
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I always thought I would feel your hand, always, Lay with you as we flew higher together, laugh with You in the little spaces left between certain trees, like tiny blue flowers that only appear suddenly, made secretly Of…
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A Beatles haircut and loose Khaki painters overalls rendered the child sexless. He or she walked over to Hugh’s side and standing tiptoe peered into the casket. She, for Hugh had determined it was a girl, stroked the silk lining.
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For a time he documented his facial expressions.
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Ayane took another look of the area and it was large warehouse. A loud thud vibrated outside.
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We all thought, Birds! We all thought, Nests inside the chimney!
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They look like giant golden raindrops, or flying saucers, or peculiar fish out of their element
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and like the want
of weather, we walk away or come close
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Go diddle in the sand//
to save some other sinner/
a death of stones.
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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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We played synthetic derivative punk. We used Donald Trump tweets as lyrics.
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Even in the fading light, it looked big enough to disembowel a man.
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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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...collapse of the human world. Go, cell phones!
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