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x ≥ ponds rise beyond where you & i have stood
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Lama’s mother is dead. She died when Lama was just outgrowing her ballet tutus. When Lama talks about it, it is with the air of one who picks honeysuckle over jasmine. It gives sunshine, she says, to graves. Our epitaphs are so mechanical otherwise.
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Shhh. I am here. Otillie Augustine, from Trieste, an Italian city to you, but when I lived it was part of Austria. Such things as who flies their flags over a city? Not so important after all, after all the losses and the victory speeches. These were not…
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1962, What I wanted was a Levittowner rancher like my best friend had,
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136122
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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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Over by the swimming pool singing - Hey hey it’s okay - A line from a song he heard - On the stereo when we were driving in the car - On the way to sign the papers to get - His grandfather released from the hospital
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We all tell them/even when our mothers
warned us only the Devil/tells stories
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136021
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In a mad tipsy leap you came up short and hard on the chipped stone counter Bruised and blue below the seams against the inside of your thigh. Your grand jeté a little too low, left you on the black floorboards Wincing in…
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136020
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Each evening the man allowed himself an hour of fresh air. He and Prickles would situate themselves on the tiny balcony overlooking the same street, a blanket bundled around them both for warmth. These were the times he liked to talk to Prickles the most
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136000
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Ships tumble, cars crash, horns gulp water, bombs burst up from the ground in a halo of screams.
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Mercury and Gemini disappointed.
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The car was a two-tone black and white Chevy...
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136022
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I do not know the species of birds here. /
The two I see playing on the balcony at night /
I can never call back.
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Keiko covered her arm while holding the staff. She looked up and saw morning breaking through the sky, but something was unusual about it.
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136061
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She burps in beauty, like a frog
Who sits on lily pad so green,
Resounding nightly in his bog
But to my eyes unseen.
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136051
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There was no provision for keeping the post on the door, but I did not have the fingernails to pry it off.
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136021
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they flew down the slopes
with her holding on
for all she was worth
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136051
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They come in my room without knocking and I'm nekkid.
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136034
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But the restaurants put pig in every little dish. You couldn't eat there without encountering some portion of pig. It was in everything, including the cabbage. Who puts pig in the cabbage? I'm asking you. And in the dumplings too. For God's sake, give it
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136054
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Swatches of Chinese silk in vivid red and lavender fly through the air. My granddaughter in her mid-thirties reaches for the cloth. I see in her mirror a shape forming; a slim, gray haired woman with a spring in her step. I pause to admire my reflection and pass over the…
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“Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water."- W.C. Fields Around the next corner is a dark green door a dark…
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136020
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Overnight Robbie had lost his youth. But since he was still only nine and his arm looked like a nine-year-old's arm, people didn't notice much at first, until he tried running. Or if he was introduced, and they went to shake his hand. He immediately lea
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135961
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I'm not dying. What is it called if you think you might have Hypochondria but you really don't? I'm worried that's what I have. Is it cold in here? Or is it me, dying?
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135920
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There is no life here, only a bleak slab of frozen desert and a sorrowful wind that calls for me to venture out.
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135962
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The laptop has ruined the sanctity of the library. And so I get up and go see Queen Jane.
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135900
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By the time I was born, my parents were already sickened, blackened, blighted people.
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two pairs of arms and legs
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Smiling at stones and chunks of earth pounding in...
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