1517 13 10
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Inevitability: it's what's for dinner.
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151711
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I am only ever
What you seem to be
Without the leverage
Of sweet reality
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151722
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A single woman should regard every train ride as an opportunity, I once read in one of those “How to Find A Boyfriend” books. “When boarding the train, don't take the first available seat,“ the author advised. “Walk through all the cars…
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151721
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Their tongues were dry, her milk was gone, and the last bit of water in the plastic jug had evaporated.
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151711
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we all die from the bottom up
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151711
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When people talk about the end moments when one's life flashes before his or her eyes, they often refer to time as slowing down. I can attest to this phenomenon during my final moments, before the collision: the song playing on the radio, the squeal of tires and flash of…
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151732
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The Italian was late. She was supposed to come into the store, meet him in the back, and arrange to take the last of his liquor.
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151773
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Shit, I guess I'm gonna hafta
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151742
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In the mode of Swinburne's ‘Dolores':For the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster- A study of the notion of “Intelligent Design” Since the universe came into dawning, If e'er this bright universe did, Men ought to know better in…
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15172011
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There was a form to it, not reproduction. I wanted to write Moby Dick without a man in it. [I wanted to write Moby Dick with only a woman in it.] But I didn't do it. It's like a seven-year diary, and it did happen. I might write it as memory then.
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151722
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Happy Birthday to me.
It takes just a second on waking to remember,
It's June but it feels like December.
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151723
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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.
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1517107
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There were too many laws but not enough of the kinds she wanted. She wished for the right to go shopping. Then taste rather than disposable income or access to finance could distinguish people.
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151680
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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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151694
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The poet could not speak of himself
but only of the gradations leading toward
him and away. ~ Mark Strand
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151612
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indelicate, as everything arrives at once.
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1516910
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Fine gradations of the fractional/
fissure the eggshell whole we crave
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151600
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In the state that the stars fell on,
Love and I stumbled upon bits of God
where he forgot sky and moon, too.
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1516126
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151621
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I stared at these meteor impacts, feeling far away, a lone sentient cloud admiring the scoured yet wondrous earth-of-this-girl below me, the lean slope of her side, the soft dip of her neck, the sharp edge of her cheekbone, the monarch wing of her eyelash
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151621
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they flew down the slopes
with her holding on
for all she was worth
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151644
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The bartender kept looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar. “Everyone in Hollywood is an actor,” Doc said.
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151621
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Only fragments of their lives survive, like broken Sapphos. I have known them, alleged killer of themselves for the love of a man., but we know this is an invention. The leader of a whole guild of girls, who wrote 7 books of poems. What happened to them
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151684
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The title of the overdue book returned to a public library in San Francisco 100 years after it had been checked out? Forty Minutes Late.(Readers Digest, 04/17)In 1999, Kathy McKeon, Jackie Kennedy's former assistant, went to a Halloween party dressed in a Marge Simpson…
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151573
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The drone of radio seeps into the car’s back seat… I hear only bits and pieces of information –
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15151510
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The mirror can never talk back/
unless corrupted creases of the brain/
and its recombinant physical maladies//
elect to answer...
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151595
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I never meant to shipwreck you,
I didn't even know I was singing out loud.
I just stood on my rock a little too boldly,
and hummed a tune you wanted to hear.
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151588
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Some days, you want all the red states to secede
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151532
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Natty looking
in his 2-tone shoes
and argyle socks
blue blazer
with 3 gold buttons
on each cuff
pale yellow
hemp or burlap
necktie, of course
with a blue shirt
(never white!!)
long mopish hair
hanging on his forehead
and a
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151586
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I am falling, falling out of my body,
falling like midnight onto mice.
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