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the vigilance that informs a parent's every hour had momentarily lapsed
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^ through a busted window in this desert…
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Daddy comes home, calls us to his room, makes us stand in line, tells us to do it again...
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I understand why Warhol said/
“I want to be a machine.”/
Forget this sorry clay.
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You wanted transcendence, wanted height, danger, the tracks blurred into murky distances behind and in front of you. You slipped, reached for it, starlight shining in your eyes, something you didn't have when I held your hand. We didn't fold the…
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I haven't been here in a while!
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Safe does not ride horses at sunsetSnorkel in MolokaiRaft down a swollen river.It does not steal kisses in a darkened theaterTouch the inside of a thigh under a restaurant table.Safe does not declare war.It chooses dinner every night at sixMass every SundayConfession once a…
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indelicate, as everything arrives at once.
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They're haunting me with every spotting. They're convincing me they'd be the unexpected blessing. They're confusing me when I look at my already-children, taking on the shape of this one's face, that one's gestures. We've been…
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Bounder squirmed out of Francesco’s hands and ran into the kitchen.
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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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I once dreamed of taking a trip to Northumbria with a lover and reading the poem together on the fells.
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Anna's daily train commute from the outer suburban fringes to the city reveals a message that changes her life.
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There is a woman in here- I am never alone- but she is fully clothed in Detroit Derby Dolls gear and stands at a modest seven inches tall.
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Write me a Will you laughing boy,
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The night I screamed you out of my life for good, I fed your confettied photo to swirling toilet, a ticker tape parade and dead fish burial rolled into one. Later I found the box, a jiffy…
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In the center of the big diorama, the real world hangs in the air by a hook.
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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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Luv walks around touching everything with her little hands. Uzma follows behind her, talking sweetly, saying: "This is going to be your new home for a while, darling."
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The drone of radio seeps into the car’s back seat… I hear only bits and pieces of information –
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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I'm an artist, baby. We make our own rules.
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" . . . with twinges of dread and pangs guilt, I worry . . . "
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the carnival ride hurtles the spinning man over canyons of light and barkers & streams of cotton candy girls
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He pronounced the Afrikaans word with the vowel sound like the vowel in dour. It meant box, but it also meant cunt.
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It is dead, for a time.
Sometimes we are all dead for a time.
Our lives leave off, sleep under the weight of snow.
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(no one need fear timidity in our tastes― /
we like trying new things, no matter our hastes!)
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War Stories #1The Germans didn't like that theJews had such beautiful women.War Stories#2There must have been a war between the good witches and the bad witches. It's the only thing that would account for such troubling times.Woman With Yellow HatWhy did…
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She sat down in the big soft chair in front of his desk. “In your religion you believe in past lives, right?”
“Yes, reincarnation is a tenet of the Hindu faith.” He replied.
“As Catholics, I think we believe that only Jesus had the power to come
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