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Not to...Witness such sufferingWatch as a life fades awayReceive the callAttend this funeralBe surrounded by well meaning family and friendsStand by helplessly as my father sobs in his brother's armsNotice the pain settle in my brother's eyesSee my grandparents' tortured,…
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137701
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She could see him doing these things but she could not hear him.
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137733
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The gate squeaked, the gravel shuffled and the letterbox clattered as February 14th's mail cascaded to the ground.
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137765
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He stops smiling and only
says he loves me when prompted,
as if asking me to pass the salt
for his inner peace as it tastes too bland.
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137731
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I will show you how, in the spring,
the sidewalks here
look like a crossword puzzle resting under
a glass of lemonade,
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137752
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Method of divination. Open a book to any section. Drop your hand onto the page. Read that there is an exorcism happening in the other room.
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137766
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With their brightly-colored bits of
found string
woven into the walls of their nests
to teach their baby birds
what the worms of the future
will look like.
Somewhat like the
cave paintings of Lascaux
for early man in France,
when hunti
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137762
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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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1377118
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They could occupy the space//
left by creatures larger and more/
evolved.
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137745
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After my mother died, my father shipped me to my uncle's. He hadn't told me she was dying, so he could just mourn alone.Lena lived next door, Italian, my age -- which was ten -- beautiful. She was watched by goons in black suits. Her parents owned a restaurant. Across the…
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137733
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two pairs of arms and legs
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137720
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He also had OCD. He had to kick every dog he met. Johnny killed a lot of dogs and was bitten by many others. He was a cruel bastard.
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137753
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Before the railroad tracks are blown off by the wind, the wall tiles morph to trace 34th Streetwhile a silver balloon emerges from the end of the tunnel. A child’s hand reaches out for the gleam and she, the woman in a black-dress with a mandarin collar,
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137720
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Each had jostled and laboured for his or her place upon the blunt outcrop, in the cold persistent darkness, where the outcrop was merely something that had fallen and not quite been washed away.
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137798
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Regret takes the shape of little clouds ...
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137621
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137600
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[WE'LL LET *YOU* BE THE JUDGE!]
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1376138
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The bathroom faucet is leaking again. Do they make diapers for faucets?
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137621
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But behind the shops (and the many pubs), at the back of the narrow cottage fronts which line the wynds are secret courtyards, surprising gardens and more light than ever imagined.
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137642
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who can quite say/when careless talk & confidence/slips into that other charged thing/so minimal at first
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137655
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I have a ninety two percent rejection rate.
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137655
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There’s someone in the audience who is immolating himself
Cutting his own leg over and over with a pen knife
And groaning: “Oh God, oh God”
And all I can think from up at the podium is
This guy must absolutely hate these poems
I am reading
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137600
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Hits start, enters numbers, runs the program / Does this again one hundred times / Then takes a break
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137673
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Sometimes you have to go wild; you have just to go fucking nuts. You do.
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137662
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137651
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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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1376128
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That’s a long time/
to live with the certainty/
of your death
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137610
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She lay there, skin and bones, unable to speak. Little did we know those were our last moments togethter. How cruel for her, to want to share a lifetime of thoughts and feelings in those waning moments only to be robbed of the chance. My brother and I…
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