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I saw Vincent one day, sitting at a café table that was situated right next to the quays of the Seine, with another artist by the name of Bernard. Vincent had his back to me, and he was leaning forward in his usual hyper-excitement, gesturing wildly
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The bird sat there some time. Several minutes. My wife and I grabbed out i-Pads and took pictures.
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142242
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Depression had Frank in its craw.
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142297
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Survival is often violent.
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a man sees salamander bands / a-cracklin on the scree
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We at Cahiers must continually ask–is le cinema de kung fu pimping really, truly—as bad as it wanna be?
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“Have the cousins arrived?”
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Bent, crooked and straight, knifed.
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I used to fear things. The lonesome wind come through the clapboards. Dry hillsides rustling. My own skin in the summer heat. Rattlers. Lurking. Abandoned coal pits. Pa said I was afraid of desolation. I didn't know what he meant by that. How can you be…
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If you were glassI'd fog you up With my breathI'd leave messagesPictographsIn fingerprints I'd press in closeSo would youAnd so we'd danceBut you are glassAn inch of depthTo catch my breath
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142296
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Birds fly and people
hurry in the wind and rain like it's a matter
of pity.
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142222
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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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I was insufficiently abused as a child.
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I’d look for a fork and quickly stab a piece of it and bite into it, feeling good about the finality of things.
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pulled the
wool off my head
found i
was almost dead
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circumstances//
squeeze the heart so hard/
that you should die but don’t.
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Instead, we found his red-inked list of boys who would never be saved,
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For weeks they used every medium to say: This day will be an end or a beginning.
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I stepped down on what looked like a mouse
Bloody and lifeless outside of our house.
I took bag in hand and prepared to grab it
When I realized the thing was the head of a rabbit!
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142100
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“It’s time we moved our relationship back into an upright position,” I said.
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142111
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My friend and I were once walking the aisles of a supermarket because we decided we were going to have roasted duck. We didn’t know how to cook, but as the old Filipino reds used to say: If not now, when? If we don’t learn how to cook now, as in NOW, then
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Martin met Siena in the elevator, carrying two brown bags of groceries. She asked him to press the button for floor eight. As they rose, Martin fixed his eyes on the display as it changed numbers: G, 2, 3… and so on.
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142133
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"a ratty, red, medium-sized bicycle for sale in a ratty, medium-sized yard."
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The one at
dusk is not the one you met this morning.
That one's gone like a head in the window.
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142132
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my loosening grip on time.
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It was a dire and dun-colored year when groupies wept and autograph seekers put down their pens.
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A friend has been shopping an opera around without success. It's about Arthur Inman, a hypochondriac who hired people to talk to and, in some cases, have sex with him.
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