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I had a terribly vivid dream
where a big leaf was talking to a baby,
and the Mouseketeers had grown fat,
and my lover was passing the healing comb
through the hair of my soul during the night
as she retouched my youth,
so I could rejoin
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150620
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"We gotta find a way to get high!" "Shh! My parents will hear you Tommy! Their bed is right above us." …
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150630
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he flies away
past the green explosion,
into the azure sky
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A friend's remark about androgyny, "it's overrated," she said.
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“I don't cotton much to some of the johnnie-come-lately's we get around here,” says Graham Buchter. “They're a bunch of talkers—they wear me out.”
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150600
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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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150611
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The clouds cried more than silver tears,
this time.
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150600
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she flips
you a smile and a white plastic menu, and all the blood in
your head, and upper body rushes to your crouch, and god-all-
mighty, space aliens from the planet Vanna White could be landing in their unnumbered hoards in the parking lot, and all
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He kept
saying how my old scars
excited him to new truths
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150622
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He sits in the best chair and it collapses so he unfolds himself up like a mechanical shadow and sits in the second best chair.
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...when the doctor scrapes the baby out, he cuts out all the things that make babies, too...
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And I admire//
the orchestrations of ants and honeybees/
and the persistence and adaptations/
of the cockroach.
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150630
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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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150611
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Hands and fingers feeling down
Cross the boundaries I laid
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It was the first warm day of a late-arriving spring. Ben was sitting in his divorce lawyer’s office on Maiden Lane in lower Manhattan.
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Will he do it with a gun? If it’s a gun, will it be a short one, shaved so he can hold it against his head. Will it look like the photograph he showed me, black and brown. I told him he couldn’t possibly buy something like that from a Walmart.
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150500
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“It’s time we moved our relationship back into an upright position,” I said.
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150523
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I underline the passages Momma does in her Bible and circle the same words she does, of the oil Samuel uses to anoint David...
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a girl in a red cap
flashes by
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Is there a homunculus in my brain guiding everything like the pilot of an airliner?
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150522
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'Like poems,’ I said
she paused and nodded
her black mop.
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In Aisle 3 would you brighthearted find Count the Chocula.
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150520
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She’s gotten more involved in the game with menopause.
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150532
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Little things that kept me going are no longer doing the trick, and venting to someone eventually drives them away. People around you know what is going on, but there is little they can do. They stay away at more than an arms length and you understand. Tr
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Wicklow sat in the handicapped stall, pants down and straining, fed up to here with a world in which he couldn’t even take a decent crap.
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Some people are born that way, and some people do things to themselves
that keep them from talking. Like opening up a soda bottle with your mouth.
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