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Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.
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131955
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It's been a bad year, People dying. Some too close to home, Some too far away. I cry down to you, In your casket, and think you might sit up. You were not sick You went in just a moment, Looking stunning and alive. Not…
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131944
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So for now, let the snow fall, but
let it fall gently,
each flake as a soft piano note
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131931
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It was more than just taste/
more than a point of view/
and oil and pigment/
that painted a store front church/
a box with a cross in a vacant lot/
that welcomed desperation, faith/
and imagination.
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131934
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But what “is” retirement? All of the previous sections in a life are full of detailed descriptions. But “retirement” is somehow left rather vague. One would think that retirement would be the long-awaited GOAL of life. But instead we are left with the
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131900
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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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131910
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Talking to Shakespeare by the riverside,
I am saddened by my lust for women,
how my eyes fixate on the spit that passes from top to bottom lip as they talk to me.
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131920
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Night became day and back again in the span of a heartbeat, the familiar strangeness of the sudden change stinging like dust in the eye.
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131942
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Last night we slept with books in the bed.
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131964
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Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.
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131922
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1318123
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But this ache wouldn't leave me.
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131800
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Azure took the paper and read it herself. She wondered about those four mysterious beings that communicated with her.
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131800
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Rome and Carthage wage war as Hannibal crosses the Alps and invades Italy. With him, he brings an army of barbarian hordes hellbent on reducing Rome to ash. For one young Roman soldier, Gaius, he is trapped between his loyalties to the republic, and to hi
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131810
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The doctors said, when she was born, that the gills would eventually fade away on their own. Nothing to fear, they said; no more unusual than the rare child born with a tail, or a dense pelt of fur, or a single sharp tooth jutting from its new pink gums.
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131865
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I know someone in need of healing.
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131821
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Sometimes when I fall I see a ...
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131898
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6. to register for the draft
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131832
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sometimes it's hard/ to leave the house in the morning/ when bed is so comfortable/ and you're so far away.
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131898
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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.
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131832
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The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the Magazine of the Museum of Everything
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1318125
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Monday will come soon enough to get/
what needs to be done, done.
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131875
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1318128
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Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
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1318107
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and where have the years sped
how distant was your youth
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131843
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"You're no good at sex, no good at drugs and, god knows, no good at rock and roll."
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131833
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131855
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She thinks this is the place she dreamed
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131865
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It sits up tall on its hind legs to take in all of whatever this is, big and bluer than the sky, death's own taxicab parked on its doorstep.
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131721
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Oh sweet, sweet morning light
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