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This time the bag's bigger/than the boy and the door.
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153166
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Then I did the same to you, inhaling your scent which was one thing at your hairline and another at your collarbone.
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153142
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He brought me flowers once, three wilted carnations I put in water, though the sight of them made me uneasy. He brought me pictures once, too, of three sisters—ten, twelve, fourteen—straddling dirt bikes. He touched my shoulder once, as I edited pictures …
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153154
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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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1531115
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Blue skies greet us as we exit the forest . . .
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153052
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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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153076
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Safe does not ride horses at sunsetSnorkel in MolokaiRaft down a swollen river.It does not steal kisses in a darkened theaterTouch the inside of a thigh under a restaurant table.Safe does not declare war.It chooses dinner every night at sixMass every SundayConfession once a…
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153087
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153010
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Marcy was not herself today, her mother said when the school called. She was under the weather and she could not play with the other children. Marcy's mother began to suspect that her daughter was not herself very early on that day. Walking up the stairs Dolores…
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1530158
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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153087
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Pale like a tracing of a memory
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15301911
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Culture gives what it feels you deserve/
in the cul-de-sac of your time and place.
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1530910
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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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153021
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Smiling at stones and chunks of earth pounding in...
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153042
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In the summer of 1963 I went to Philadelphia to study with a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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153031
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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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153032
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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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153030
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blackberry pie and huckleberry wine and litte Maria with her summerset bangs
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153021
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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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15301511
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When Lois finally found him down there, Johnny was wedged between a large rock and the trunk of an old, long since fallen, cottonwood tree. She said as she got to him, she heard his gurgling breath, fighting fiercely to stay alive. When she saw the deep, gathering, red…
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153032
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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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15301814
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His eyes are wide then narrow and brown. Hers are gray then they look away, toward the back door where a delivery driver has walked in, carrying a tray. Nothing is going to happen today.
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153064
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Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.
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153020
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He draped the sheet over her body. Blood spotted the fabric, rose petals on snow.He left the pistol, but pocketed the first edition she'd signed. Part of his fee.In the park, he ditched the glasses, fake mustache, and anorak before making the call.The publisher called an…
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153020
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Overnight Robbie had lost his youth. But since he was still only nine and his arm looked like a nine-year-old's arm, people didn't notice much at first, until he tried running. Or if he was introduced, and they went to shake his hand. He immediately lea
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153000
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"Oh — what is this 'work' thing the philosophers speak of" sort of thing.
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152944
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1529179
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In the next week or two, the red oak/
will loose and lose its leaves
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152963
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—You're convinced I'm crazy. I'm convinced you're incompetent.
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152921
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She heard the quick footsteps and knew where they were headed. Running down the hall she knew she “only had 1 hour left and there was no time to waste”.
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