1452 9 5
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Then I found myself in the water.
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145221
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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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145254
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I find myself in an unfamiliar restaurant, its cuisine an uncomfortable pastiche of Croatian, Burmese, Jamaican and leftovers of long ago Sunday dinners in a small New England town.
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145240
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There are songs I know to not listen to when I am alone.
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145221
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He stood in front of her. They stood eye to eye. "You aren't supposed to look me in the eye. If I were anyone else you would be smacked down on the ground right now. Treat me as you would a lover, your master."
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145222
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I may as well have been sleepwalking. Either way, I had no opportunity to admire the moonlight flooding into the long corridors, illuminating the stag heads and painted cheeks of long-dead ancestors.
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145297
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Jeanne and I were married for eight years. I never knew her.
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145252
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If there was another way to describe emptiness, I'd word the endlessness of the sky, of the ocean at low tide.
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145221
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She’s always had one foot on a pedestal and the other in a gutter.
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145251
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THE BOOK YOU'LL NEVER READ CONTENTS This Is Not A Test In The Event Of A Nuclear Attack, This Message Will Be Followed By A Message From Your Local Civilian Defense Authority Fuck, The Radio Doesn't Work Trouble Shooting Radios The Top 40…
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145266
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Rises monstrous out of the Baltoro GlacierPlaying poker with oxygen levelsPlays leap frog with embolisms.Malice and vanity join forces somurder guns the air even beforethe Death Zone. Down suits, bold and cockyregisters the climber's ambitions. The Serac , a…
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145220
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Night became day and back again in the span of a heartbeat, the familiar strangeness of the sudden change stinging like dust in the eye.
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145221
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Neither you nor I is old enough, of course,
to remember that America’s most
popular athlete once was a horse.
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145264
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I wonder if she is my real mother, if I could get one of those paternity tests and find out if she’s my real mother and if the guy she told me was my father was really my father. I can’t remember him very well, just a lot of him screaming and hollering an
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145211
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Come to the park and swing with me, sing with me.
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145290
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Of flowers there Are none In June No sun Upon my cheek The gentle breeze Stirs me not The smiles They cloud my vision Birds they Sing their songs But I hear Them not When tears Rain down My heaven.
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145244
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Sometimes my poems escape. They crawl out through my Wi-Fi connection, I suspect.
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145154
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“We could dooble date,” he said.
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1451106
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gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour
and just getting under way
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145153
|
We entered the castle at dawn. The dim light feebly illumined an array of antiques and medieval weapons. Bats dangled from the high vaulted ceiling, enfolded in membranous wings. What were once chandeliers radiating light were encrusted with webs and the ancient wax…
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145162
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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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1451910
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So where does that leave me, Roscoe Loomis wondered, dismounting his silver, aluminum steed in his sweat-soaked, spandex outfit, and, clearing the saliva from his beard he walked over, checked and smiled, learning that the bike track's timing unit showed it was Roscoe's…
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1451179
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let’s press our words into the clay/
in language so completely dead/
we have to re-imagine it.
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145153
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He is unmediated by any computer or person. He went rogue in 2016. He has been in your Facebook feed, your Netflix recommendations, your Spotify playlists, your Google ads, and your YouTube pre-roll. But what is next for him? Lets find out.
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145121
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I remember sitting there on the first unfinished rooftop, watching you building houses out of words. You hammered in grammar and punctuation; you said these things needed to be hammered in by hand. You drove the long straight exclamation …
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1451128
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Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
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145187
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He invited her in for a Martini and she graciously accepted.
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145111
|
Pen or sword? Pick one/choose your battles carefully/for the paths oppose
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145142
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I was in life, in my dream. I was feeling around underneath your clothing. My fingers were shining in the underwater afterlife of memory, searching for those lovely nipple-sized mollusks. I lived in a land somewhere between the past and the future. Now
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145130
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blackberry pie and huckleberry wine and litte Maria with her summerset bangs
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