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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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142498
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We can’t just bomb Berlin or Dresden,/
Nagasaki or Hanoi, to make things safe
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1423109
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After becoming single at age 62, I joined an online dating site. After a year of perusing profiles and meeting men for coffee, staying single is starting to look better and better to me. But I've stayed on the site, in part for the pure enjoyment of…
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142354
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I would advise the younger you to change your underpants, and not to let those boys do the talking for you.
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142377
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142342
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A walled city doesn’t let you out any more easily that it has let you in earlier.
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142300
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When we saw the window, we were impressed. It was so clean and transparent that it reminded us of a new pair of glasses, everything so crisp and clear through it. It looked on to nothing. Actually it looked on to the refridgerators and a few stoves, though most of the…
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1423158
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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142300
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Mayumi and Rumiko stood at the top of a hill into stone forest, with the town in view from a distance. The mist made a single path, safe for everyone to travel through. In the town, there were lights flickering everywhere, some areas in total darkness.
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142332
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"Sometimes things just don’t go as planned. It doesn’t mean anyone is to blame - It just is."
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142323
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my crotch-heavy press of 'Yes.'
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1423139
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I was convinced that enemy bombers were on the way.
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142310
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"If you don't like it then leave!" Sally screamed.
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142330
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You’ve got me standin’ on my knees,
A’searchin’ for a beggar’s alms,
From folks who’re deaf to all my pleas
And blind to open palms.
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142342
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In the exquisite now, I feel everything around me, in me, before and after, I think, I should call you, say goodnight, but I do not, choose instead to write this poem, as though I can capture the magic of what is happening between us in words, A…
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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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142232
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I am not responsible for any nightmares this piece may cause for all you mice lovers!
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142200
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The teeth I want must hold significance. Like the quote, “it’s not the destination that matters, it’s the journey,” for me, it’s the connection that I’ve had with someone and the story behind the lost tooth that interests me.
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142253
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This mother, she buys a one way ticket
whenever she visits her three daughters
who have wandered far from the eyes of
her pearlescent knitting needles and tutti-frutti yarns.
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1422109
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He looks outside, sees everything disappearing like crumbing cookies into what appears to be a giant mouth.
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142200
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I was sleeping in a pile of teenage bodies soft limb spread over soft thin limb.
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142200
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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.
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142232
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"I'm just going to
take a power nap!"
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142220
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My brother Herb married his high school sweetheart right after completing college. This was a girl named Beryl, whom he'd met originally in Mr. Reinert's marching band at York High School in Elmhurst. I remember one day in particular in the middle of the
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142211
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another lonely drone holding still
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142240
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We’ve already agreed on a date when Jack posts some new pictures of himself. I have to swallow. Hard. In four days Jack’s become twenty years older!
On Thursday, a boyish thirty-something was smiling at me from my PC. This Monday I find myself stari
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142200
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Her feet are raised upon an embroidered green pillow and she sits naked in a blue velvet chair. Red earrings dangling from her ears, while a red monkey sits at her feet with one leg extended.
She is exotic. A powder blue on her lips and at her navel,
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142286
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What the spaces say//
can be heard in the short/
and longer silences
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1422177
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...bush tail beside him his closest comfort next to the genes...
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142120
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One day a girl with blond hair was walking along the fence on the other side. There were just a handful of us left and I was the only one to notice her. I watched her. She did not see me. The next time I saw her, I went to the fence. I thought she might y
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