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I don't know what I'd expected from the week of mourning after my mother died but I sure hadn't pictured this marathon cocktail party. Our house is packed with people, food, booze and borrowed chairs. People I haven't seen in years keep turning up with casseroles.I'm…
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153344
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Ok, ok, people are forever asking me, so why did I cross the frickin’ road? Dumb-shit me, of course. Consequences waaay unforseen.
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1533107
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My blood has turned to flour I've been in Babylon too long My heart was singed by fire But it's drowning in my song We raised a prayer to Mary We had to take our share We took our places in the ferry But we didn't pay the fare And we don't know…
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1533116
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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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1533126
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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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153340
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Then it started extruding tendrils and tying them all into intricate knots.
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153363
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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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153397
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Jeanne and I were married for eight years. I never knew her.
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153343
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Breathe a stench of Eton musk...
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153300
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“She’s very sick. She’s dying,” and he smoothed my hair along my neck.
“It’s leukemia. A very rare type,” his hand reached my shoulder and stopped there.
“She only has a few months.”
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153341
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That is the question,
not to be or not to be
Life, death, whether to be,
all that is superfluous
in the face of laughter
and how to achieve it
under extraordinary circumstances
like not drinking anymore
I’m afraid not all the alcoh
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153266
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It’s Independence Day. But I’m not feeling independent.
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153287
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There is a war, but is it not In my heart? There is a war, but You are not the reason. There is a War, but we're all doing what we can. There is a war, but it is not just Your fight. There is a war, but I Wished you still walked…
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153294
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When we are given eternity, as a night is eternal
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153222
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Suddenly I'm not feeling it anymore. /
Poetry has become insufficient. /
I can't do it like I used to.
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153210
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My name is Jeremy, and I am in love with a zombie.
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153264
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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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153274
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153284
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Suddenly something clicked.
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1532125
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Monday will come soon enough to get/
what needs to be done, done.
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153254
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this is where we end --
the exorbitant eye of forgotten days.
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153243
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I was walking my Belgian Waffle-Hound
Past the Belgian waffle shop
I found a penny on the ground
And did a tiny little hop
I spun around and went inside
The Belgian waffle shop
And bought a little waffle
For my Belgian Waffle-Hound
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1532109
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...clash of gulls
wend upwards, disappearing into grey
night's high tide recedes
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153267
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The currents of events/
strip the molecules from cartilage,//
reverse polarity of ventricles—
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153286
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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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153274
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153262
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A white room is empty but for you, a card table and a chair.
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153256
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at all altitudes and at all latitudes /
glaciers in furious melt: / both Greenland and Antarctica headed both /
to be ice-free isles adrift / and with shorter coastlines amidst higher seas.
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153200
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Even the old medicine woman seemed to grin with a perverted sort of understanding when she opened the door to find Lys waiting outside. She was comfortable nowhere and ready to flee at any moment.
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