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but most times/
it’s just improvisation//
with phrases of unknown origin/
swirling in my head
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140397
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She grew tired of waiting for her husband to give her a flower so she picked one for herself.
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140322
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Through void decks of apartment blocks,
Over roads on overhead bridges,
Down small streets on concrete pavements.
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140362
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Mom stayed up all night again Tending to her papers Pushing them around Trying to make order of the debts, the dreams and the obligations She couldn't get the columns to add up, So she shuffled them around some more and Rearranged the piles …
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14031812
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the epiphany at the mast at midnight is not the same at dawn
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140300
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"Asaka-sama, we have been beset by the foulest of demons and nothing we do will rid us of it." The prostrated villager quivered from head to foot on the tatami floor. "Please, we are unworthy but would beg for your help!"Ietsugu's heart raced at the statement, though he…
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140331
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When he leaves, she collects all the caterpillars she can find at the bottom of the garden and sits cross-legged in the shade of the buddleia. She makes a hollow in her skirt and drops in the smooth green, the furry black, the red, spotted and the spiny ones and watches as…
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140310
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140266
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Wild are the woods tucked in the backyards, tame the front lawns of green, manicured, with a hedge and a few flowers, a well-maintained driveway, and a garage door.
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140252
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I’d made that shot a thousand mental times, and when it counted, I missed. It happens.
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140200
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Realization of one's ongoing decline. Not a bad thing.
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1402118
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Will it take the rise/
of cyber guerillas to finish it/
in the way it should be finished
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140282
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The lawyer is having a party the next weekend.... He's celebrating because he won a court case to have his alimony reduced.
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140288
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Some days, you want all the red states to secede
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140220
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She’s gotten more involved in the game with menopause.
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140296
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Suppose you could bend your whole body backwards like she did, you know, like a taunt powerful bow and arrow kit, and push the rest of your truest self forward into his concentrating face, just like Georgia O'Keeffe in…
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140232
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my loosening grip on time.
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140201
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... threads are nasty things / That snag and pull and tear the cloth / And will not let me be.
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14021710
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politics only add to assault and distract
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140222
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My grandma kicks field goals between her bedposts, again and again. My finger is sore from holding. She says that's all I'm good for. My finger is smudged with ink from writing my poems on her paper: half-moon rowboats, clouds like whales. She twisted my finger for …
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140233
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This is a warrant for your arrest.
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140222
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Most of Carl’s neighbors considered him a lone taciturn man at best and an eccentric loony at worst. His neighbors knew him as the guy who left his house every morning at eight dressed in a suit and tie.
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140220
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The sun is coming up and the work day has already begun.
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140297
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If they are all speaking medicine & I / start speaking French - how / rude am I? Would they understand then / what it is to be entirely left out / of the conversation, unseen?
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140254
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The Bird King's advisors and ministers are a range of rusty kitchen utensils. They all observe a respectful silence in his presence.——Contrary to popular belief, the Bird King is not an atheist. His meathook priests do their rounds at twilight.——The…
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140222
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Everybody knew the buildings were trying to kill us.
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140241
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Couldn't get that first beer past his nose. Fared no better with wine, gagging on red and white. Then someone fixed him screwdriver.
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140121
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The park is filled with tents, tarps, and supporting structures, along with hundreds of diverse individuals seeking a common focus, wanting to make a difference, expressing an abundance of opinion, verbally and with signs.
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140166
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alright, alright but not so much of a friendly little cigar-chomping companion-like a friendly ghost! That sweeping hair of longed for sleeping only awaits you once you've drowned too …
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140140
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New Year's Eve 1984: I was a hit with my outfit. When I walked into the house, a teenage girl looked me up and down and said, “Nice knickerbockers.” My cousins dragged me to the living room floor which was crowded with my family dancing and I started…
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