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So I've got this head in a jar and I'm not sure who it belongs to.
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151331
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It was more than just taste/
more than a point of view/
and oil and pigment/
that painted a store front church/
a box with a cross in a vacant lot/
that welcomed desperation, faith/
and imagination.
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151384
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He spotted her in Sarasota Whole Foods surveying the artichokes
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1513129
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Enumerate the small delights/ this bright first morning
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151386
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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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151398
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Regret takes the shape of little clouds ...
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151300
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Would we have been satisfied with a humble butter sculpture of a cow in 1960? Puh-lease! Would Parisians of the Impressionist era swoon over a big-eyed child picture?
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151322
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I want to be adored for something and chose poetry to be that something adored for. But Annie doesn’t see why anyone would ever choose anything over love.
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151342
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I got to see me the other day.
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151340
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We all stared, somewhat shocked and mostly disgusted.
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151321
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This is how she does it:
Forward………… ...Reverse..........…….....Forward..........……...Reverse
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1512116
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I said hey man, how you doin’? He looked up and nodded but his shades flashed and I couldn’t see his eyes.
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1512126
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Have you heard this yet? The daughter flew home to care for the mother, whose pump is still tick ticking—though now with aid—which means she leaves the kitchen when the microwave clicks on.
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151222
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“I’m pregnant,” he says...
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151288
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the brain plays impish tricks/
and entertains itself with avant garde/
home movies
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151122
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The light of day is screaming,
shook by the calls of howler monkeys,
their low roar hanging in the salt,
in the black sand riding the wind,
as Playa Negra outstretches its infinite arms.
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151133
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For me, it was that kind of moment. I got to come back. I had been here before and now, well now, I could come back. I had a chance to do it all again, bigger, better and well, just better. I hoped I could remember all that I learned the first time.
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151133
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The shit just doesn't want to come off.
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1511115
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As air warms and warm/
winds stir, green becomes the force/
that surges the plains.
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151171
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She talks about window treatments, how the place is maybe too much for one. Wants me to know she’s not much of a cook, and wants me to smell what’s in her oven and compliment her cooking anyway.
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151100
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a dozen girls with Encarnación's face flit past, whispering kisses along the part of my hair, tickling their hems along the cuticles of my nails.
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151184
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Suddenly something clicked.
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151144
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James Hubert III sat at the bar. It was late. His wife and kids were long in bed and he knew he should be, too. But with the Lovelandtown lift bridge stuck in mid-air, a drink beckoned him. He sat next to Vince DeSantos, a small, stout man, with a bowling
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1511103
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Words are looking ever so strange today
like a hole in space
a wind in a cloud
a face superimposed over a mountain
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15111816
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Gossip Betty Martini divorces husbands when they least expect it. On a seeming whim, she pays a visit to dear Arnold, who keeps her papers handy in his top desk drawer. She initials here and there, signs with a…
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151175
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... the CBO issued a concise and brilliant report demonstrating that the most cost-effective and permanent solution to the multiple problems presented by persistent poverty in the United States was the elimination of all those with prorated household or i
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1511119
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A cheap pocket knife was the only sharp I carried in my backpack and they allowed me that. The man with the pot tattoo on his neck said, “All of us here needs some type of knife. You gotta cut up your food. We don't…
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151144
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A rope is cleaner,
he explains with a straight face.
He's calmed by the visual.
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151165
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I was low on carburetor / oxygen and my fraud protection / had just expired.
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