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On the phone I asked my mother how she was doing.
“I’m getting old,” she said. “Going slow. But getting there. I’m ninety-four!”
My mother was always 94, when she was really 93. I remember she was 93 right after she turned 92. And 92
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10512311
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We deny one another, here,/
as long as it’s plausible.
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105144
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The Utah State Attorney General's office recently stated in a court filing that there is no constitutional right to marry a laptop.(Time, 6/19/17)Smartphones are spreading head lice.(New York, 7/10/17)People are less helpful when it's hot.(Time, 7/24/17)Online virtual…
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105122
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I’m just your ordinary poem,
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105141
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In the morning I listen through an ear-trumpet
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1050117
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The condemned, arrested/
and convicted as a consequence/
of cheerlessness, must be prepared
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105064
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Sometimes the wind comes across the fields and you would swear that it can be known. Going along the one lane there I look out and see those vast spaces and then refocus on to closer on. Swinging the truck into a side road that goes far and far and then left, I pull into…
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105044
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The young boy woke to the sound of laughter. He blinked himself out of deep sleep and allowed…
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105042
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They sit across from each other and she smiles as if they were in a normal place.
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105032
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As I gripped the wheel and stared at the expanse above my head, my compass spun wildly. Something wasn't quite right
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105011
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As soon as those planes hit the buildings on September 11, it was pretty much all systems go for Cheney's long-planned Iraqi invasion. But first he had to shitcan an aide who showed him in detail how Iraq would eventually…
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105021
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It was R who embodied love for me. We’d eaten gummi worms in the park, held them up to the sun, yellow and green and translucent. When we returned to her flat, they were everywhere. I’d never seen such a thing. They hung in the air, these gummi worms.
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105053
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In Aisle 3 would you brighthearted find Count the Chocula.
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105054
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She is alone in the ocean
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105031
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Flowing, Flown In the field stands a jealous man with fifteen eyes stored inside the cuffs of well-worn khaki pants. His pockets pull with clinking dimes…
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105021
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Rachel Stevens is an attractive woman I notice her long fair skinned legs and think that She must wear sun block to live in Arizona And have skirts like that. Today she invites me inside, She says she has a light bulb for me to change — up high. In a friendly…
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105042
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there is a tunnel / between your skin and the ground / for kisses to crawl
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105032
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How does a mixed couple come together in the Troubles?
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105040
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One could count fifty moons hanging in the sky, in rows and columns of smaller skies.
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105044
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Tears and tears and tears flowed
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105064
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I woke up to the humming
of an empty space in the shape of a sweatshirt,
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105066
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And here’s a picture of you
at the end of the line
to the great toilet of
fiction, waiting to
relieve yourself, quick
before the poetry gets to you.
Or worse, the actual
poets.
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105010
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i could smell it,
my scalp split on
that same damn nail,
i hammered down 20 times,
it kept coming loose
that warped floorboard
i never should have tacked in
when i built this house.
it always squeaked
at the base of the stairs
when i snuck
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105063
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The moon was out. A bouncing ball but suspended. I shall never have a baby, she said. I am not prepared to go through that pain. Also, I for sure would not raise them up if I had them with religion, which is just so much superstition. I'll be a fellow this…
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105073
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At last, we learn if Blow has the cojones to fight.
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105096
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Because we cannot know, we keep walking, keep getting up each morning, feeding the cat, drinking coffee. Because we cannot know I'm drinking coffee that morning in Thailand, not on the beach but just off, because there is only one spot where you can get real coffee,…
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104930
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She’d picked him up at a party freshman year, calling him Danny. Until then he had always been Daniel. He’d said nothing and his name was changed.
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104986
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Two days ago the equation worked so hard it shone.
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104994
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He wasn't sure if I was joking.
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104931
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No one takes me seriously because I am an idiot.
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