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There are certain items in the sink that are giving me an anxious feeling in my stomach.
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One could count fifty moons hanging in the sky, in rows and columns of smaller skies.
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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name
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One of Montejo's captains has us drilling in the rain again. The sun hasn't shone for days and the air is stifling, like trying to breath under water. Everything looks gray except the palms. Each green leaf droops in the rain like a…
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Only fragments of their lives survive, like broken Sapphos. I have known them, alleged killer of themselves for the love of a man., but we know this is an invention. The leader of a whole guild of girls, who wrote 7 books of poems. What happened to them
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Last night we slept with books in the bed.
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I still picture her waving her bare arms and hands into the purple bellied clouds above the trees, her crooked smile, the spiraling silver maple seeds cascading soft circles around her determined reach, as though the very tree limbs shaping the sky above
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In the ’70′s, Bigfoot was romantically linked with Farrah Fawcett, spotted in an Arkansas 7-11 with Elvis, and tabbed the front-runner to be Secretary of the Interior had Gerald Ford defeated Jimmy Carter.
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A man of action would take to his rake/
but Sloth would rather watch and wait/
for snow to erase each leaf on leaf.
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The pool deck was covered with the bloody footprints of resident gawkers.
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'Like poems,’ I said
she paused and nodded
her black mop.
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. . . how a body calls
in the dark. . .
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The were two things and two things only in the town of Comfort, Alabama, that were older than Bella.
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to pay dues to the calendar year / when a day breaks in quartertime / the stars account for halftone
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Someone's ass should be kicked.
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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
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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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And God said unto the oil can: “Thou art cursed above the cattle, and above every beast of the field. And deep the ground shalt thou go.”
“Mother,” said the oil can, “fucker!”
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Conjure calamity and calamity comes.
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I found a diseased fish / wedged between some boulders near the pier
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Every day, a fresh new/
strain of Hell reveals itself
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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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Where the skin had grazed, shredded by the coarse gravel to form scabs, fascinated Jack. It reminded him of his youth and his own grazes, scratches and stitches. As a boy he imagined scabs were rough foundations of igneous rock, blood like lava pouring th
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On Tuesday, he wears his suit to the cafe. Of course they'll let him pay! Of course. Under the table, his wife accepts their wadded bills.
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Galloping people, tangled in ballets of hot love, weaving in and out, making a canvas of it.
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the last, best//
analgesic--/
guaranteed
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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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