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It was far away and I don't know how we arrived. There were people about that were involved in getting boats into the water or else playing sports games atop green hills. They told me I should go out in a boat with this guy and that he would take me around the island. I…
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The clip-clopping of footsteps now echoes from the opposite end of the alleyway, and as you turn to face the figure who appears behind you, the figure wearing a fierce Noh-drama mask, you determine that this time you will enlist its aid in decoding this r
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They divided over worthless gain, while I came too late for the battle.
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Diane couldn’t shake her compunction. Though eight and a half months had passed, nothing felt right anymore. Their conversation played out in her dreams, and stilled her during everyday errands.
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Consider this. Only a sentence ago we were complete strangers, oceans of time, distance and thought between us.
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It was time to go sit outside in the sunlight with the gang of trust-funders, just to see what was new in the world of high finance and falling stock prices. “So, what's happening with the economy in China?” I asked. And they just stared at me as if I had
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I look as sympathetic as I can, under the circumstance, which is entirely unsympathetic.
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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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She grew tired of waiting for her husband to give her a flower so she picked one for herself.
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The last thing I heard was a loud retch
The loudest retch I have ever heard
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129122
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As I fall to the ground I realize that in a few moments I will be experiencing a new kind of pain. The last pain. The last pain I will ever feel.
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129121
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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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When we go to the streets/
we’ll have no guns
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try to keep him from eating the children
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As the breeze slowly died, another breeze brought her back up, one breeze after another like the hands of God carrying her through the sky.
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I planned to wear this shirt, /
blue, black, and white stripes, /
collar and pocket,
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...when they entered eager lungs hungry from deep and sweaty love
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You don't just hear the sound, you are the sound, you and everyone else in the room.
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I just sit here thinking
You’re cheating on me again
It’s how you acted last time
The same as it’s ever been
Don’t wanna go ballistic
What’s inside your head?
Why don’t you just tell me
Who’s been sleeping in that bed
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Ben was cheered to see Monique in good spirits again.
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Of course they (the coffee and cream) were lovers, chemically made for one another, warmly exploring their partner's particles with the passion of a first kiss.
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I remember the days when my brother and I would walk down Tillman Square, careful to avoid the cracks zigzagging along the ground. Well I did. My brother made a point to step on every one.
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129011
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They say I'm supposed to see everything as a nail, but I have a silver head. Too soft for bang-bang. Too soft for anything but sitting on a shelf. I sat in her classroom for twenty-five years. She was proud of me and pointed often to the words inscribed on me that I can't…
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I wrapped my arms around each of them
ran my hands over their face, and kissed
their lips. "Why are they dreaming?" I asked.
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Got something inside me
hard as nails
keeps me walking upright
ain't never failed
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these three remainders you, me and her are the legacy of simple math
and boolean logic, not so much
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A dirtied light falls through/
the grimed windowpanes.
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They run nonstop for weeks. Between traffic stalled cars. Down forgotten subways tunnels drilled long ago in the cold earth. Past burning sugarcane fields.
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