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In the diffuse light of early morning you wear a sweat suit maybe and stand in front of a model-kitchen counter in a model-home kitchen
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137621
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most interesting, i investigate all of this at 1:15 on a thursday morning and consistently contradict my assumptions while simultaneously validating them.
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137630
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blackberry pie and huckleberry wine and litte Maria with her summerset bangs
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1376147
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At some point, you care/
just enough to wake each morning,
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137654
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If you are a family member or friend of a person incarcerated in a correctional facility...
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137610
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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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137622
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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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137622
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1The Bird King's eggs are subatomic particles created serendipitously by a sneeze in a quantum physicist's dream.Occupying a space between existence and nothingness, reason and madness, broccoli and…
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137564
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As a boyfriend, he knows that such A.D.D. insensitivity could be considered a major liability in the eyes of most girlfriends, including his.
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137520
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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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137532
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Scientists have discovered what I already did once on dope
way back in the Sixties.
There are so many other earths out there
that they are almost infinite.
Now in our other lives we have to
shuttle from planet to planet
reading our poems. And o
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137531
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"Look Emily, I’m charging your solar powered calculator and helping you relieve your dependence on foreign oil."
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137500
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The rocking chair will bite your toes.
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137562
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I was, so I was told, the product of much hard work and a lot of invasive procedures. Initially, I'm sure my parents were making love, but then came the slog, the repeated failed attempts at getting one of mother's millions of eggs fertilized. Those tadpoles just couldn't…
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In and out of morphine dreams, he flies through the unfinished roof of Illinois sky. Below, matchbox-sized farm machines. A silo becomes his father's thermos, the silver-capped tower from which he stole sips at ten, his first secret. Back …
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137550
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Rumpelstiltskin cried
because you belong to me;
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137521
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they flew down the slopes
with her holding on
for all she was worth
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137576
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Now, this boy removed his socks in front of me, on the chair beside my desk where I read my books, and said: “My toenails aren’t shaped properly.”
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137575
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The nerves are birds that guide us to feeling the loop and lift of reverie.
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137573
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Look around you, see what you have built.
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137575
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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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Translation’s not required—music/
sings itself complete and comprehensible
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137444
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On a street-lit night in Jeddah.
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137442
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The rain is filling up my shoes,
I can’t see
through my glasses,
Rain all inside me.
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137475
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And right there beside me
That single wobbling
Snail-like trail of my heavy
French Horn case
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1374108
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“I have a theory,” she said on their first date, which was at an Indian restaurant where the music was a lovely singsong but the chef seemed enraged as he clapped a ball of dough between his hands, then threw it into the flames. And her date, whom she…
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137421
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Smiling at stones and chunks of earth pounding in...
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They come in my room without knocking and I'm nekkid.
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