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Enumerate the small delights/ this bright first morning
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Everything is bound to change like / a damsel to the tracks.
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You are a warm winter
Despite the presence of snow
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Come to the park and swing with me, sing with me.
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suddenly she blurts out: “You are vulgar.” There is actually no perfect translation to it. “Bastos ka.” She meant I was vulgar, but also disgusting, distasteful, offensive, rude, salacious, obnoxious…
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A poem not about fog written in fog with an erasable pen.
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I fall in love with a second cousin at the picnic. I make sure I sit next to her.
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This was the anniversary of the chairs. He would celebrate tonight for the chairs, and the chairs would welcome him.
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She remembered how cold it was in the factory that day. A few of the high windows stood open as usual, necessary for ventilation when the machines were all running, when the concrete floors were packed with the sweating bodies of warm human workers. The
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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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Art books, paintings, antique chairs, marble tables, full length gold gilded mirrors, oriental rugs, tapestries, a Louis XVI painted French armoire, a wrought iron Deco coffee table, flat ware, silver flasks, mantel lamps, iron gates, a silk settee, theat
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And he was wearing a mask. Gorilla mask over his gorilla face.
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the two become one where/
all things end,
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“Okay,” I say, “but my point is the only way you’d ever know if someone really loved you is if they put their life on the line when it counts. Otherwise you gotta take their word for it.”
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The Tea Party member was married but cuter. He worked as a caulker, a tub and basin man.
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I looked down at Earth and imagined this porn star who’d asked for my help.
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When he leans back from the telescope through which he had been looking, he sports a derby and a Hercule Poirot moustache.
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She had a face like a frog: wide mouth, prominent eyes – and when she touched him, her fingers felt clammy on his skin.
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nothing suffices as harbor / but a permit to claw at every yawing chasm
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The first days of October are ordinary in the way that milk just hours away from spoiling is ordinary milk. You can baptise your cornflakes with it, but part of you knows the whole thing is just shy of almost right.
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Years ago, I was involved in a freakish tragedy so startling and heartbreaking that it made the front page of not only my local newspaper, but “People” and “The National Enquirer.” I'm not going to tell you anything about it. This means that…
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I don't need to be toldhow natural you are, not here.I'm reminded every singletime I open my eyes.What I want to know iswhere have you gone? Whyhas it taken you so verylong to return? But Iknow the answer. You aresomewhere fighting for your dearlife. It's what we all do--in…
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The Italian was late. She was supposed to come into the store, meet him in the back, and arrange to take the last of his liquor.
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He painted a woman on them, identical to the woman that kneeled by his bed.
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This time the bag's bigger/than the boy and the door.
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A tornado and peacock were bred in his paddock; the couple gave birth to a turquoise lasso.
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—Jesus, that bastard has everyone in his pocket.
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I suppose it was inevitable, This crashing of souls, This recognition of possibility to create. If we were younger, We would make a baby, The ultimate act of faith. Now it has to be something else, Nothing to force a track with night feedings, …
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Ok American dogs. Here my first story I wrote when I only two days old! Then evil moderator delete me and story go away. Now I three days old. I try to remember.
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