1486 7 7
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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148541
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Ben was not a happy musician.
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148580
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Beautiful, he thinks, as he taps the ash of his cigarette over the balcony, but this is not good enough.
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148532
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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1485158
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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148533
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148532
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...he was suddenly and hazily relieved that he had something in Persepolis and blue agave plants to talk to her about.
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148563
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In that time when the trunk was getting cleared out and when it became only the empty shell of what had once been so important, many things hit the match. She burned an old black negligee, a picture competing with the likes of a Vargas girl and other thin
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148532
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A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
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148510
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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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148552
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The manicured lawn rolls down either side of the knoll, punctuated with flat granite plaques, the occasional bouquet of cut flowers, a smattering of faded eight-inch American flags.
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148532
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"I'm just going to
take a power nap!"
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148587
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He invited her in for a Martini and she graciously accepted.
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148587
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Downtown Milwaukee My feet are exposed, never been out in public even out here— …
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148522
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There is a roofer straddling part of our house, pushing shingles off of our roof with the edge of a shovel. …. I've thought seriously, at times, about becoming a nurse. Seeing your mother in a hospital bed, hooked up to a tube, more than one, too…
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14851814
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His eyes are wide then narrow and brown. Hers are gray then they look away, toward the back door where a delivery driver has walked in, carrying a tray. Nothing is going to happen today.
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148523
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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.
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148421
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Just an abnormal visit to the post office.
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148452
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Not to...Witness such sufferingWatch as a life fades awayReceive the callAttend this funeralBe surrounded by well meaning family and friendsStand by helplessly as my father sobs in his brother's armsNotice the pain settle in my brother's eyesSee my grandparents' tortured,…
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148476
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Safe does not ride horses at sunsetSnorkel in MolokaiRaft down a swollen river.It does not steal kisses in a darkened theaterTouch the inside of a thigh under a restaurant table.Safe does not declare war.It chooses dinner every night at sixMass every SundayConfession once a…
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1484129
|
I smelled the bleach of burst anemones
the sweet arousal of the Dungeness crabs
the seaweed of sour twigs and feces
|
148421
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...to know they are not alone
|
148411
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But the profligate are blameless now
Those who conflate sex and love the way
dumber animals mistake heat for light
have moved freely back to some primal zone
where if I’m felt to be contradictory to the
surroundings it’s because I wanted t
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148488
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Able to search through centuries, I click, scribble, skim,resurrect wet stone walls, the smell of burning peat.Bob's your uncle; Peggy's your aunt.Name your family, child. My brother said helloto Uncle Shirley and Aunt Greg. I was more…
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148400
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I pat my pocket to make sure everything’s in order; a Starbucks blueberry scone to sustain me, a $50 Brooks Brothers gift card from my in-laws, and my “piece”–a fully-charged BlackBerry handheld device.
|
148454
|
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.
|
148464
|
The dead want you to calm down.They are quite fine, and don't needyour post-mortem tears, the flowers and veils; their names mispronounced by preachers. None of your catechisms will do -- especiallyfor the children, who know them well and need no…
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148431
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the vigilance that informs a parent's every hour had momentarily lapsed
|
148400
|
Early in the morning
I wanted to send you something
for when you wake;
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14841012
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All the things that are his.
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