1528 4 4
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I chose coming away because here at least I feel good — and it makes me feel I am growing very tall and straight inside — and very still — Maybe you will not love me for it — but for me it seems to be the best…
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152851
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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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152854
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My wife says you can tell the crooks from the cops from the cowboys at the taco truck across the street.
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152811
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"Yes. It was moving, and not along the ground, either. We were. . . looking toward the cemetery, and the ghost or whatever was clearly visible. . ."
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152871
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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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152811
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152844
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It was one of those weekday mornings in early spring when Marjorie and I could wander from chapel to chapter house with only security guards for company.
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152864
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“What took you so long?” she asks. She seldom asks me that when we’re done, but today I feel ready to protract the glory, to tease out its rise and fall like the lingering chords of a Debussy pastorale.
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152854
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If you can imagine a ghost taking a shower then you can imagine the kind of emotion I have in mind.
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152841
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You gather their faces in the palms of your hands and their purple eyes blink, blink, unseeing.
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152852
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Your stepsisters send their love. All three are still on the wagon.
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1528108
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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.
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152832
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I climb up on the sofa and stand next to him. I smell something.
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15281110
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152853
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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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152844
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Feelin’, feelin’ good, down-fallin’ down/rain, rain, rain came today,/wet alfresco alchemy
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1527119
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All else is unmoved/
and relentless in its indifference.
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152753
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The new king hunted often. We heard her whirring above, the terrible whirring a forest of—, and she drifted over our city half dangling from the chopper, rifle barrel glinting.
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152711
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years later, she won’t go near the trees
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152761
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money ain't nothin next to lovin.
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152722
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We do the work of fixing people like him?
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152764
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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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152797
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Weight of faithlessness...
Mist
Of bodily
Existence
Grave expectations for the future
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152722
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I recently discovered that the man I'd loved and trusted for twenty years had a secret girlfriend on the side for the past decade. We've parted ways and I'm trying to go on with my life. At about the same time, my friend Judy lost her beloved elderly dog after…
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152700
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When sixth-grade science teacher Pat Farrell assigns an earth-science lab on measuring crystals, the girls collect their materials, read the directions and follow the sequence from beginning to end. The first thing boys do is ask, “Can we eat this?"
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152721
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Grady Quail wondered why God didn't just have another son
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1527146
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1527116
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152761
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The old man is dead,
body propped in its cart
like the dead El Cid
strapped on his horse by Jimena
to save Valencia,
and yet...
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152775
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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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