1520 2 1
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An excellent plan. Just like old times.
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152010
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In the United States of America children everywhere are waiting for summer vacation. To a child in the United States, there is summer vacation and then there is everything else. Summer vacation is freedom. The united states was built on the foundation that one day we will…
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152044
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152052
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Have you ever seen a body of words give birth to a paragraph? I won't lie. It's a little gross. But quite moving. First there is the biology of reproduction. A blackbird living in an electric guitar, for instance, and its inexplicable urge to mate with an elephant.…
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152010
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I’m not ready for football. I’m not ready for it, but I live in a southern town that worships at its altar more devoutly than those suicidal beauties in James Wright’s great poem.
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152054
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. . . how a body calls
in the dark. . .
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152000
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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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15201817
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The courts had scheduled the date long ago but the time, an hour always left to the warden, had yet to be decided.
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1520179
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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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152010
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My bones will rob me blind, corpuscle by corpuscle.
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152031
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'Every raindrop sounds different.' says Barney. He's bouncing along beside his mother, twisting in her hand like warm milk. She looks down at his Big Bear hat and tugs. They wait together at the edge of the busy road. 'How do they sound?' 'Zzzing.…
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152032
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I didn't feel when you cut out my spine I'd been throwing up all night couldn't even smell the rust …
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152042
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Blankets were always her undoing.
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152030
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blackberry pie and huckleberry wine and litte Maria with her summerset bangs
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152032
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Sebastian and Janice had been a natural match. They sought to deny this at first because a recovery assistance program was not a place to forge intimate relationships. It worked out wonderfully in Hollywood, but Hollywood, as everyone knew, was just a facade. So…
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152086
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What the spaces say//
can be heard in the short/
and longer silences
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1520810
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The floor dissolves beneath us, pierced by lasered/
glare of countless eye-beams.
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151944
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I gave you two daughters.
I gave you four grandchildren.
I'm done.
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1519107
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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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15191711
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Neither of us thought of real winning. We set about brilliant losing, dark angel forms of luck and greed, the desire, the craving, the need to lose so strenuous that one wins; we tied at thirteen.
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1519115
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The smell of garlic, soy, and onions/
exhausted from Skillman Wok/
perfumes December air.
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151900
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“We are NOT starving!” I stated emphatically. “What ever gave you the idea that you are starving? Honestly, Annie, you are so melodramatic. You have food in front of you right now, don’t you?’ I said pointing to her plate of potatoes and so
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151941
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151940
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There are songs I know to not listen to when I am alone.
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151987
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151900
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Hits start, enters numbers, runs the program / Does this again one hundred times / Then takes a break
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151931
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151944
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So for now, let the snow fall, but
let it fall gently,
each flake as a soft piano note
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151965
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He doesn't call, not even on her birthday. She doesn't mention it or complain. She knows she doesn't have it as bad as some, even in this privileged Triangle of North Carolina. She is white and pretty and belongs to what's left of the middle…
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151986
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Before Genesis, digesting the primordial soup.
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