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This poem first appeared in “Walt’s Corner” of The Long Islander, founded by Walt Whitman in 1838.
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1419910
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When the dark shadows of his limp eyes told us life was slowly seeping away, stolen by his stroke, his wife signed the “DO NOT RESUSCITATE” order and, tearfully leaving the room, she turns, asking a final question, “Think a needy family could use his…
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141964
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After the Tokyo experience, Frank and Michiko decided that when she went on extended tours, Frank would accompany her.
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141975
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I can't believe it's Frankie, but there he is at a table on the far side, just in front of the big picture window. I hold the menu close to my face and peek again over the top, watching as he reaches under the white linen tablecloth to plant…
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141900
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A life in NYC was one I always dreamed of but I found myself turning into a bitter, sarcastic person who was losing the ability to see the silver lining in just about anything.
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141901
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After you started drinking your meals and hating politics I wanted to climb inside, live in your stomach and dissolve. I wanted to make you see, hold you captive with arms stretched, pinned. listen again, swallow…
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141988
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the brain plays impish tricks/
and entertains itself with avant garde/
home movies
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141986
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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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141931
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The trouble with alarm clocks is naturally that they are miserable. And their curse is that their misery is useful: we employ them because we want to get away from them. But we would never have one as a friend.
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141877
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It's become sort of a habit now when Elsie's husband is away on business two or three times a month that we take the afternoon off and drive nine miles across the river to Marginalia, Arkansas and the Moonglow Motel with its red, neon vacancy sign and although to some, two…
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141810
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The doctors said, when she was born, that the gills would eventually fade away on their own. Nothing to fear, they said; no more unusual than the rare child born with a tail, or a dense pelt of fur, or a single sharp tooth jutting from its new pink gums.
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141876
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I almost caught a poet today.
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i hear the boom boom boom
in the room room room
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141840
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Then it started extruding tendrils and tying them all into intricate knots.
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141866
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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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141854
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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
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141863
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It is midnight in Utah, but I can’t tell. It always looks like midnight in a cave.
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141842
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If this road could answer
I would ask her what it is like
to follow the path
of the rippleshimmery river
for too many miles
through the slowly ghosting towns
and the corncovered landscapes
of the dying Midwest
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141862
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141800
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Mayumi faced forward, channeled her Mana, and gathered a small pocket of air under hand. Soon the voice returned, rattling her mind.
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141833
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Sitting in the car, John had the urge to kill himself.
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141886
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Said do you feel it when you touch me?
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141822
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My Thursday head belonged to a former Miss Brazil named Rita.
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141830
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blackberry pie and huckleberry wine and litte Maria with her summerset bangs
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141820
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Now it's late. I am hanging upside down from a rope coiled around my crushed left ankle, the pain too sharp to be really felt, as the excess blood to my head makes my thoughts fuzzy. I am almost two meters from the rock face, thirty-five hundred meters above sea-level, the…
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1418116
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Everything is bound to change like / a damsel to the tracks.
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141844
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My father died. I took his clothes.
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141701
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She could see him doing these things but she could not hear him.
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1417159
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heart-shaped stones
love, devotion
no way
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