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If she does not get to him in time, / all is lost.
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142942
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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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142933
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The leaves/
seek reunion with the ground//
and leave the oak tree naked/
in December’s cold.
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142910
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Bree was mean as a bag of snakes and had done laid out most of the eligible bachelors in Culloden County at one time or another to the tune that at this point no man who’d heard of her wanted much truck with her.
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The summer I turned fourteen I had a job babysitting our neighbor, Pam's three year old daughter, Annie, three nights a week while Pam was going to Junior College, but it was hardly work because, after I tucked Annie in to sleep, I just watched TV, sitting in Pam's den…
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No one commented on her altered appearance, although Will in Accounts said he quite liked her hair like that, so she assumed that no one could see the snakes. But she still felt self-conscious, exposed. She had to remember not to talk to them when she was…
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1428101
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These are the three facts of my life.
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142842
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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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142883
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After oh so many hours
the eyes could only close
only to view a Ritz cracker
marching on a nose
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142842
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Feeding you a taste of croissant
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142810
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For weeks I hadn’t been able to think straight, waiting to lay vision on those majestic, swooning breasts.
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142864
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you tell
a stranger's story...
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142821
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I came to a field where, scattered around, were quite a few men digging holes
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Tentacles hold fast to the small/
thrashing thing they believe is true//
which, devoured, once crushed/
completely still, turns into shit,
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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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They waited not a moment longer than was necessary But moved right in and
Began their loathsome ch
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I saw a woman stop, Stoop on the platform To pick up a penny, And wondered what it was worth To her, that disruption, That eddy in the flow of the day's rush. One hint of brightness, A tiny windfall And something changed. Lucky heads…
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If I remember him at all it’s because I decided not to flunk him so he could graduate. I had this theory that teachers should be bound by the same oath as doctors, First, do no harm.
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142700
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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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She loves you when your words leave her dirty, semi-transparent, at times, overexposed.
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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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142783
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You have the right to be happy
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142700
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On these days, while Momma counts the money, we go to Blockbuster where we can pick a movie each, play on the playground at McDonalds, lick tall ice cream cones.
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142700
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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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and, under foot,//
dark caves waiting/
with their unseen pigments/
adorning forgotten walls.
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They were discussing reincarnation,
what animals they would come back as.
"I'd be a vole," Cranshaw said. Is a vole
even an animal? Connie asked.
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1427910
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Fine gradations of the fractional/
fissure the eggshell whole we crave
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142700
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I was sleeping in a pile of teenage bodies soft limb spread over soft thin limb.
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142764
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"...she's been seeming like she's been dreaming while awake lately..."
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