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“The window is a much better place to read,” she said.I wasn't aware she was talking to me, at first. In my typical manner, I was thinking about far off possibilities and realities completely detached from my own. Yet, here she was, a far off…
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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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Sit down at night and stare into the fire. Consider if Cupid is just another liar.
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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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My student assistant was a comely young woman. A freckle faced blonde. She was from Ohio.
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Philosophy: a muscular exercise of throat, jaw, tongue, and brain.
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The kitchen is full of old girlfriends. I avoid them. They are munching on cheddar and sharing stories I'm sure I don't want to hear.
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In the next week or two, the red oak/
will loose and lose its leaves
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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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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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...to know they are not alone
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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It's saying, "It feels as if you've given me your old, your tired and your poor. I feel much older than the years you've logged."
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"The Chinese don't have no Mardy Grah, bitch."
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Mayumi noticed everything moving in real time. Everyone just stared and a woman approached her to see if she was okay. Once Mayumi felt the woman’s hand touch her shoulder, her skin crawled and she ran.
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When his mother was all dressed up on New Year’s Eve, and his father, even thought they had tickets for the dance, announced to her he wasn’t going to go, Johnny had gone into his room, put on a white shirt, a dark suit, his dress shoes, and a clip-o
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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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One could count fifty moons hanging in the sky, in rows and columns of smaller skies.
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in a willow garden lush shade/drapes dark the young woman's small house/with the lone window, the white door . . .
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Come to the park and swing with me, sing with me.
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—Strip down to your shorts. Put on this gown, open to the rear.
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Anatoly Gringovitch sat in the police car returning him to the Opera House.
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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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1. On the morning of her eighteenth birthday, Eve woke to find herself transformed into a gigantic chess piece made of zeros and ones.2. Eve gazed so long at her smartphone that she found herself falling into it.3. She fell for a time that may have been short or long or…
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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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After oh so many hours
the eyes could only close
only to view a Ritz cracker
marching on a nose
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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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