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Downtown Milwaukee My feet are exposed, never been out in public even out here— …
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I knew we were going to fail. The night we met, when we got out of the car, I dropped my green glove in that puddle, you picked it up but it was ruined. That set the precedent for our whole life together. You can't look at me anymore. My cigarette…
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Last night we slept with books in the bed.
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His touch, even now, seemed to set off tremors inside her.
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145653
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The mother, a pony-tailed beauty, thinks she looks fat in her
new blue-checked pedal pushers and white blouse tied
under her full breasts— in the latest style.
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His wings, like tiny shoots, grew a season in an instant. The pain was gone now. He rose up as effortlessly as centaurs run, as angels fly. "I will sing your name as my brother among my brothers," the Seraph promised. Kladius watched the beasts below
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Robert Frost told me that life goes on, but that’s just not good enough for me and for God’s sake it shouldn’t be good enough for you either, should it?
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“There are so few uses for Crisco, that to keep it in the house seems an unnecessary temptation,” said my health teacher.
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*Must have excellent communication skills and be able to talk pretty good.
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Love me like a crutch
Love me when I'm strong
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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As the music concludes, I'm finally in control of my emotions . . .
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I’m not / going to change you I /promise
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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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145574
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The energies align to compel you,/
wave by field, charge by pulse, into/
an ever increasing circle of speed
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Conjure calamity and calamity comes.
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My third Rule of Success—and I may not have these in exactly the right order–is always get a pre-nup!
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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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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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a dim wood-paneled stair leading to the ladies’ rooms, candle-lit.
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Names are forbidden here. So is apology.
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the sun is quiet like the mountains,
the birds except for their wings
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Got something inside me
hard as nails
keeps me walking upright
ain't never failed
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There are stranded people just like us, that's Not necessarily what I'm looking for. Negativity won't pull us through the Barbed-wire halls of hate. And even if I Was the only one, I wouldn't want you To look any different in the mirror. I'm older …
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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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" History ...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
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The line weights are spot on/
and the snap of lines is textbook/
for a discipline that died with AutoCad
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philanthropy corrugated with a smirk / printed aside every cardboard box and room / every cardboard house with every cardboard door.
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