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Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.
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130254
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The silver urn of ashes inscribed
with his unknown name.
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130264
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I'd wear my pajamas too, fitting for the big sleep
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130294
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He wasn't sure if I was joking.
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130221
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Sometimes when I fall I see a ...
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130232
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Cat summoned for jury duty in Boston
Wayward hawk loose inside Library of Congress finally caught
(God only knows what happened to the doves)
Vacaville roof collapse blamed on bird droppings
These are a few of my favorite things
Piano mysterio
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130295
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I'm putting makeup on my face. The woman next to me is reviewing legal briefs.
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130298
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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.
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130262
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She buried her secrets in a bowl of brownie mix....
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1302125
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Monday will come soon enough to get/
what needs to be done, done.
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130221
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Life to her had come to resemble one of those mazes you find in a puzzle book, inscrutable except by those with exceptional IQs. Mary would run her pencil down one path in search of the passage that might penetrate to the exit, then another, but the paths
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130211
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When people talk about the end moments when one's life flashes before his or her eyes, they often refer to time as slowing down. I can attest to this phenomenon during my final moments, before the collision: the song playing on the radio, the squeal of tires and flash of…
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1302189
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The Street singer gathers up his coins
and counts to a hundred before
The last string stops vibrating
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130200
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I play in the dirt with cattle bones
while Mother rattles the sky.
She tells me I have my fathers eyes.
The words come through bloody fissures in her lips.
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130233
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Sitting in the car, John had the urge to kill himself.
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130200
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He rolls in unbidden across the stubble fields /
Old acquaintance astride a newly booming cloud/
Under sky an alien shade of strawberries whipped/
Her watch stops ticking out the rest of her/
scheduled breathing poses
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130221
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She continued to cooperate with a city council agenda dominated by globalized privatization
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130254
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Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone crack open
an Old Bushmill’s and offer John Huston a pull.
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130121
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Oh sweet, sweet morning light
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130152
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Once there was a man who wrote in code. He was comfortable among substitutions
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130111
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away into a gale then
sleet he gurgled with
eddie the pike till
he yearned and
twirled the oracle
of spider gloss
till he slipped
alone into the sky
to find her in a violet
rain they splat together
back to back on the rail
in the rumbling tumbl
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130154
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I would advise the younger you to change your underpants, and not to let those boys do the talking for you.
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130100
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Meanwhile it was four o'clock in the morning, Pacific time. Seven o'clock eastern. The cat was busy chasing imaginary mice around the hammock—at least Manuel hoped the mice were imaginary. He loaded the next digital images onto the screen. It seemed to
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130130
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he flies away
past the green explosion,
into the azure sky
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130110
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the honesty of bodies & the lies hidden under skin.
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130186
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There are stranded people just like us, that's Not necessarily what I'm looking for. Negativity won't pull us through the Barbed-wire halls of hate. And even if I Was the only one, I wouldn't want you To look any different in the mirror. I'm older …
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13011312
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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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130100
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the warnings we fear are the selfsame ones of ourselves
of our vertical need to be first to the heights redoubling
its intractable charm of production— our inheritance.
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130153
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Any form of exertion would defile what we are trying to do
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