1421 9 7
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Mark Reep is that stepbrother you had a thing for, the one who turned you onto Steve Vai, Stoli.
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142131
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One of Montejo's captains has us drilling in the rain again. The sun hasn't shone for days and the air is stifling, like trying to breath under water. Everything looks gray except the palms. Each green leaf droops in the rain like a…
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142176
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These words are dripping Delaware and these words are eating your eyes.
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14211911
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There is no there or where but rather/
trajectories of probability
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142086
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The first inkling that I might be in love with Josie came at our high school senior day outing at, oh, what's its name, state park. I forgot, but it doesn't matter. She smiled, did a little wave and stepped away from her friends, lifted her sundress a little to keep it dry,…
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1420138
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inside i know my heart rattles
cause outside i'm only seeing
that the truth is in tatters
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1420176
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...Rabidosa rabida- no spinner/
of webs but a quick and cunning
solitary hunter. Anxiety overwhelmed
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142086
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They clog the skimmer basket/
and fill the small Polaris bag.
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142021
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Up ahead I saw clusters of people standing silently under the trees. They seemed to be just waiting there. More than 100 people lined up in the cold and dark, not moving.
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142011
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The clouds cried more than silver tears,
this time.
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142042
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One evening I came home late from work to find my wife drinking white Zinfandel by the fireplace in the living room and reading Wallace Stevens poems out loud to the dog, curled at her feet.
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142044
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From the rumple of pre-dawn Queens, sure South on 95, to almost Savannah by dark; still cold, but we’re full of what’s coming:
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142000
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i was in the fields, i was moss, was sticking my head in the columbine
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142075
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you can't always get what you want
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142060
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To be perfectly honest, I was lousy at my job. Or at least most aspects of it. The typing wasn’t a problem: I can get up to a hundred words a minute on a good stretch of unbroken text, and I’m pretty accurate. I even edited as I went, fixing passiv
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142021
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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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142084
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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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141965
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Everything was cool until she used the phrase, "five million dollar home."
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141901
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So, I say, what is the answer?
The answer to what?
You know. The song by Bob Dylan. The answer is blowing in the wind. You’re the wind. So what’s the answer?
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1419107
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Once you descend, the third rail/
hums its invitation
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141986
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It is the fragrance of decay/
as paint, polymers and dyes/
outgas molecules of themselves
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141933
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You’re finally in a band that can get through a rehearsal without someone strangling someone with an amp cord over creative differences. No one’s in jail, rehab, or MIA from a multi-day booze binge. The group has laid down a few quality tracks that don’t
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141932
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The were two things and two things only in the town of Comfort, Alabama, that were older than Bella.
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1419108
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for the moment/
you think you know what you’re/
doing and do it.
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141963
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—Have you ever fired a gun?
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141922
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“How long you been waiting around?” he asks as he pockets my soggy ten-dollar bill.
“For a jump or break in life?” I ask.
He smirks. “I hear that.”
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141900
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His mother hated blue jays, hated them with a passion she usually reserved for no-count trash who drank beer on their front steps and worked on their cars in the street.
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141933
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This is a warrant for your arrest.
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141900
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“I”, fuck it. I, I, I, I. It has always only been about me, this voice of mine, indivisibly me. selfishly and pompously. I shall not dispense with the false pleasantries other writers will offer, those writers that say, “Reader, look here, look at the…
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1419116
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Died is forever. Passed away/
Is ambiguous. Dead isn’t/
polite.
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