1415 5 4
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still curious of the taste of eggs
finally licking my plate
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141575
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I learned how to fall in love, in one hour, watching The Waltons. John Boy fell in love with Jenny. Jenny fell in love with John Boy. It taught me the right way to fall in love. It taught me the right way to let love go. I was 12 years old. It was a lesson I…
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141522
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Someone shoved over a table. A little girl started crying.
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141522
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You have such a complicated mind /
for refusing to believe in God /
just like any damned liberal /
whose fingerprints /
crowd the faces of a thousand /
dollar bills /
being passed around your great nation...
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1415108
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One day, my feet and hands got into an argument. My feet argued that they were superior because they were not only the foundation of my body, but the cause of its mobility. They were modest in size, yet supported and transported an entire body that towered over them.…
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1415115
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The smell of garlic, soy, and onions/
exhausted from Skillman Wok/
perfumes December air.
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141598
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Dressed as an English professor on Halloween
I escape the red devil and run downtown.
I go to the Art Car hangar
I dance, I swing my golden brown briefcase
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14151312
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My wife, Sheila, inadvertently clicked my e-mail address, too, when she sent her reply back to him and I read her poet friend's message that her love opened the window of his heart and she replied that his words were knocks that opened the door to her being, then I stood…
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141563
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My father seems anxious about my gender orientation. I grew up looking like a boy, acting like a boy. He bought dresses and girly stuff for me but he avoided making an issue of it until recently.
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1415128
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Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
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141543
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Nights this husband returned home still hungry sometimes, even for her forearms against his own
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141510
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Sometimes, to be sad, you don't need tears.
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1415105
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I like it best when I wake up
And the wild rain of dreaming ends.
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141521
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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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141554
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when i was five or six/ we lived in an apartment/ and every sunday/ i'd lie on the carpet/ to watch squares of sunshine/ crawl across the rug/ while my mother inflicted upon us/ a centuries-long hour of television/ worse than any droning mass.
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141421
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My eyes are wide open. I look like a graphic novel. My world is black and white. I’m poorly drawn. All sounds have an exclamation point.
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141400
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A baseball bat a large pipe a hammer and axe
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141421
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141421
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"Haven't you ever had some little thing you would rather everyone just left you alone about? I don't like to have my picture taken. Please don't ask me again."
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At 11 pm, it is 87 degrees and I sit in front of the air conditioner, eating oatmeal. The oats aren't soft enough, but it is sugary and fills me. Outside, the city hovers at the edge of a brown out, people sweating hopelessly inside small boxes. In Utah, it was cold…
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141400
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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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141453
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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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141411
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A mundane endeavor depicted as a quest. Try it, you'll like it!
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141432
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A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
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14141510
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in which a man who is bored with years of retirement poses a threat to himself and others
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141465
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how the world is constantlyrevolving her mirroredorbs around the roomlooking for someone tohypnotize, a goddesshell-bent on catching agoon to mortal with; andas you lie from behindyourself so shall she lie withyou. Now, do you reallywant my answer to…
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141463
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so many bills to pay
the list keeps shedding its skin like a snake
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141421
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Naomi hadn't expected them to come in such a big box. When the UPS man tried to hand it to her, she told him there must be some mistake, but then he pointed to her name¾NAOMI BROWN¾right there on the top. When she finally got off all that tape, she had another…
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141444
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We'll all face the raging river, some sooner than others.
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141421
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Wesley did not rob banks in Banning County. Wesley Roberts was the sheriff of Banning County; robbing its banks would have created a conflict of interest.
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