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INSTRUCTIONS: To all students, please address your index card: "To the Finder of this Balloon." Beneath that, write something that will encourage the finder to email you back. Then tape the index card to your balloon's string.Happy Ballooning! To the Finder…
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1520109
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My student assistant was a comely young woman. A freckle faced blonde. She was from Ohio.
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152021
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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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152044
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On a street-lit night in Jeddah.
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152055
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On the coldest day of the year, the weather man walks back from the measurement booth across a snowed-over plain, solid as cement and tinted with the pale yellow glow of the northern lights.
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152030
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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152066
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I'll still want the blinds open
and the lights on,
to see the papier-mache of our flesh
fighting death away to the century mark,
even if you only want to live until
a ripe eighty-two.
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152042
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The ambient sound wheezes on.
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152055
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While watching the ever-present crowds
passing by on my insides, I noticed,
by accident, a man smiling
who might have been me, not sure.
Maybe I’m eating soap
for the first time, because I am
either frothing or foaming
at the mouth.
An
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152033
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I reach out and grab a can of soup with each hand and spin them around to dive into this much-heralded sodium situation. It's a landslide. I almost smile as I put low sodium back and continue to hold tightly onto regular.
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152086
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Removing the deeply embedded jack-blade frommy naked side, like any slicked-upsplinter, was just a bit jarring on the first bite, on first try, I must admit. I freelydo so now to your frozen-over faces. You made your…
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1520135
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The year begins well here
with much needed rain
and tee-shirt temperatures.
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15201814
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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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152043
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—Strip down to your shorts. Put on this gown, open to the rear.
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151911
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Every day, I write myself further away
From the East
Where we began
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151921
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Anatoly Gringovitch sat in the police car returning him to the Opera House.
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151921
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Just an abnormal visit to the post office.
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151921
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I want the luxury of hearing other people who disagree with me tell me why I’m an asshole!
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151942
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The rain is filling up my shoes,
I can’t see
through my glasses,
Rain all inside me.
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151900
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When we saw the window, we were impressed. It was so clean and transparent that it reminded us of a new pair of glasses, everything so crisp and clear through it. It looked on to nothing. Actually it looked on to the refridgerators and a few stoves, though most of the…
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151986
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At some point we all reach the end point/
of something. Something important/
if only to our fragile self esteem.
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151900
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Lottie was a slim, fine looking woman. But Dale thought her breast implants were the worst case of overkill he had ever seen.
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15191413
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Frenchie hustled waffle irons.
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151910
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"If you don't like it then leave!" Sally screamed.
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151950
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"The Chinese don't have no Mardy Grah, bitch."
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151932
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"I'm just going to
take a power nap!"
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