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But this ache wouldn't leave me.
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135454
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“We could dooble date,” he said.
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135483
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You have the right to be happy
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135476
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All these poets with their wrinkled hands full of freshly poured over poems are driving me into the dried wheat fields like a black block of crows. Offering a collectable cigarette, they light the damned thing with another hand-rolled poem,…
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135422
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'Like poems,’ I said
she paused and nodded
her black mop.
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1354154
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It was a dire and dun-colored year when groupies wept and autograph seekers put down their pens.
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1354139
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I was convinced that enemy bombers were on the way.
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135400
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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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135420
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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name
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1354159
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Conjure calamity and calamity comes.
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135432
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Mother told me that I would go to the moon. But she did not tell me that on Diwali night, the moon hid himself on the other side of the sky.
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135444
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"...,beautiful, yet neutral, an oversimplistic reading of the people we meet."
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135342
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They waited not a moment longer than was necessary But moved right in and
Began their loathsome ch
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135394
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These philosophic notions floated in my head for years and eventually helped inspire my pursuit of basic information in contemporary physics, astrophysics, astronomy, and cosmology when I was not reading or writing fiction or verse.
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135344
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I gave you two daughters.
I gave you four grandchildren.
I'm done.
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135300
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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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135352
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135363
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Day by day people went missing. Reports of the ads being answered with a robocall solution to their problems were at first unconfirmed. Yesterday my best friend told me his emotional distress call was going to be channeled into a free trip to what he call
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135320
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When they tell you to choose your last meal, it probably hasn't dawned on you yet.
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135321
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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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135332
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A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
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135333
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He thought of his field trip from the previous year, of Prague’s museums, statues, squares, architecture, restaurants, and various modes of transport. The town offered none of these and surely no cinema, no crowds of people, not even an old church.
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135355
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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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135321
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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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135322
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the lightning horse you never mounted in your inherited dream~wetter than the oceans you never traversed~will you ever ride pure abandon?
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135333
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135320
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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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