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Masking. Helen says not to think of it as covering or disguising or concealing. Helen says to understand it is not to take it as something put up front and over like a mask. Helen says it’s not like that...
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The capsules tumble around, one of them plinking against the crown in my upper-right jaw. I hate the crown… a mute reminder of the first time Brad hit me. Swallowing the capsules, my tongue probes the left side of my mouth, finding the other two crowns…
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you tell
a stranger's story...
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A study found that in bat species noted for female monogamy male bats have small testes and big brains, while in species noted for female promiscuity males have testicles five times as big, but smaller brains.
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and coughed its grey net over the candle lit world outside. Birds of an arrow sprang into thin air and disappeared over the hills in a quick shortness of zoom-breath-- like a stiffened branch snapping . It's cold. There're …
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Chromio citrio sticky-floored furio...
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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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It was noon and cloudless when I pulled over next to the icehouse, wedged in the X formed by two dirt roads.
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Terry had an apartment not far from Lake Michigan, where we could stroll to one of the beaches. It was close to Lincoln Park. This was in the summer of 1966. We had to walk up to the fourth floor, and on those steamy hot Chicago summer nights in August,
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I can admire Falling Water
and find Mr. Wright a complete shit.
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Neighbors trade novels
through windows
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Contention over market share/
is bred in them and we are cousins
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The man was older and had never found a wife. Years of accumulated pain had short-circuited his instincts so that the first time he met the woman, he doubted her. Each time he spoke to her, he felt himself responding, but he wouldn't allow himself to plea
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A shot in the dark and everything goes black. It's as if the story never happened.
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In Aisle 3 would you brighthearted find Count the Chocula.
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Where was my real soul mate, I wanted to know, and why were there no twitchy children on my lap, and how had I been so dumb to believe that beauty's currency would never run out? So, Paris....
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Suppose you could bend your whole body backwards like she did, you know, like a taunt powerful bow and arrow kit, and push the rest of your truest self forward into his concentrating face, just like Georgia O'Keeffe in…
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I feel about the universe/
as Abrahamics are supposed/
to feel about their Yahweh, /their God,
and their Allah:/ I am in fear,
I am in awe, /I am in love.
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At times we rarely desire to be where we are at home quite as much as we desire to be where we are no longer.
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Mark Reep is that stepbrother you had a thing for, the one who turned you onto Steve Vai, Stoli.
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It's a haiku. It's its own snippet.
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For decades the land the village sat on had switched its allegiance between two countries.
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where are you today?/
where you are is the one thing/
i love & cannot know
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Write me a Will you laughing boy,
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In the center of the big diorama, the real world hangs in the air by a hook.
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If I could say only one thing more to Tony who died a month ago, there is one thing I could find to say
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Remembering you is easy
We do it every day,
When little Mike and Joey
Ask when the hell is Daddy ever coming home to play?
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I’d made that shot a thousand mental times, and when it counted, I missed. It happens.
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