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He saw his mother standing over him, and he called out to her for help, but she only laughed and faded into the paper towel dispenser.
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I have the right to remain silent. If I waive that right everything I say can and will be used against me like a razor dragged across my neck.
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...when suddenly I was pushed from behind, smack into the deep end.
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Do you want this, you ask, and hand me a blue silk shirt of hers
with small yellow flowers. I'm afraid to say no,
in case it makes you remember all over again.
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Grady Quail wondered why God didn't just have another son
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no need to write it if you/
live it, conscious of the light, the/
shape, the sound, the taste, and shadow.
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I climb up on the sofa and stand next to him. I smell something.
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Benjamin stands beside his bed and unpacks his few things – wire cutters, knife, tape, line, two blocks of C-4, wallet, brush, and a small stuffed animal – a monkey.
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Our painter man was killed by a bunch of snotty kids who were making fun of him. A gun went off. What is a noodle to do? He wasn't sitting alone in his world, anymore. Where was his famous straw hat? His trusty pipe? He desperately needed to smoke…
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A young girl wavering between celibacy and punk mother-lust despair came to visit us each night
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Too often, Calvin's willful head finds its way into his hands.
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Before I grew used to it
I would wake to the sound
of the Amtrak whistle
echoing down along the tracks
behind our trailer park
and wonder who was hurtling where
through the dark night and across
this wide Illinois prairie
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years later, she won’t go near the trees
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He did not hear her enter the room...
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Ah, how sweet is forbidden fruit, how delicious undiscovered sin!
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Too many sparrows flit and twitter here./
Let’s go inside. The sky is far too big/
and the sun bears down on us like searchlights.
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I caught her a-feasting with her eyes and smilin' at that Jesus- haired Waffle House cook, Dennis Roy, again and I said, “Merlene, my tiny kitty-kat, they's no reason to carry no torch for him ‘cause he may not be with us very long ‘cause, if you notice, they's no…
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There is just something about a thin, white cotton v-neck t-shirt, he thought, as he ran his hand over bleary eyes and dehydrated lips. He wanted her, as always. But he needed just a little more rest. She pulled her hair back into a ponytail. It…
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I left the train, still going nowhere, but in a hurry.
Still a boy, but trapped in a suit.
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He arrived at Bellevue hospital in a straight jacket bound to a gurney.
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Lavender, a Liberal Betty, batty from hormones, in a fanciful fit, named her daughter Lavender. Husband Don winced. Brothers Donald, John, Billy, and Tom were puzzled and pleased by this sister, this girl, who was a little bit like them, yet not like them at…
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Your stepsisters send their love. All three are still on the wagon.
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Emi watched the Perez sisters show each other support. It brought back memories of Mayumi giving her support, even fighting for her.
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Weight of faithlessness...
Mist
Of bodily
Existence
Grave expectations for the future
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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.
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We named her Big Cat—I don’t know why. Maybe because she was already grown when we got her, unlike the kittens we’d seen in the pet store window that Dad wouldn’t let us have.
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The nerves are birds that guide us to feeling the loop and lift of reverie.
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It is not unusual for farmers to see the future before it’s begun—but I am not speaking here only of the need to hope but more. . . .
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