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Perhaps my grandparents, Fred and Lela, when they were growing up....
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148142
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Years ago, I was involved in a freakish tragedy so startling and heartbreaking that it made the front page of not only my local newspaper, but “People” and “The National Enquirer.” I'm not going to tell you anything about it. This means that…
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148164
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"...she's been seeming like she's been dreaming while awake lately..."
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148111
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an elongating boy with butter-yellow flecks in his eyes, and skin patched like a tabby.
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148100
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It is your hamsa that protects us,” the girl whispers to me.
“Then I shall give it to you,” I reply.
“No,” she says in the unselfish innocence of her youth. “It is yours and you must keep it.” I smile and kiss her dirty forehead. Eternity passes whil
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It comes to me at night, the monster. I don't even realize it's in the room until I hear it breathing behind me. It reaches out its hands and places them on my shoulders. Its fingers are furry and soft, but strong. They grasp the muscles on either side of my neck, and I…
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1481105
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If I could say only one thing more to Tony who died a month ago, there is one thing I could find to say
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148196
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Because we cannot know, we keep walking, keep getting up each morning, feeding the cat, drinking coffee. Because we cannot know I'm drinking coffee that morning in Thailand, not on the beach but just off, because there is only one spot where you can get real coffee,…
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148076
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Up at the top, a quarter mile south, billows of black smoke crawled up the faint blue of the sky.
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148022
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'Like poems,’ I said
she paused and nodded
her black mop.
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148095
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He kept
saying how my old scars
excited him to new truths
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148051
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A tissue, she was saying - hand me a tissue. Her seat belt was locked and she was rocking back and forth in it cinching wrinkles into her favorite blue silk blouse. I can't remember her wearing anything else. Her hands were gesturing - on and on- an endless loop…
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148011
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I am only ever
What you seem to be
Without the leverage
Of sweet reality
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148086
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I am falling, falling out of my body,
falling like midnight onto mice.
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148042
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The ambient sound wheezes on.
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148011
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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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148011
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another lonely drone holding still
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148043
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Before the paint spikes Coney Island to the wind, I walk home through the strum of a shield, colder than the one he left behind. For the hour I sprawl along the sidewalk in her laugh, crater's shadows for Wonder Wheel, he is midnight sun in The Last Waltz. Where the glow…
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148021
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"You don't need the gun," Dean said. "Bring me a bottle of peroxide and some duct tape."
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148022
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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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148055
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Eat blueberries every day and you'll live to be a 92 year old mogul. Really.
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147954
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The silver urn of ashes inscribed
with his unknown name.
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147900
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"They don't know how this formed or how it got to where it is today. What we do know is that it's not going to last forever." Said Edward McCabe to his daughter who hadn't learned to talk but communicated with her father through her agreement or disagreem
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147944
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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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147912
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indelicate, as everything arrives at once.
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147997
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This is the Minuteman tine/
of the three-tined fork//
we can stick into the modern world/
when it’s done-- a MAD triad.
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147965
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Nothing good ever waits at the end of a long corridor.
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1479159
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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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Inevitability: it's what's for dinner.
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