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“still watersrun deep” is not my portionborn to make waves Formed from the ocean
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“Have the cousins arrived?”
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For Takama this created the second conundrum of the day. One even bigger than the first. When he’d first learnt that sensei and he would be boarding a flight together for a series of demonstrations in Geneva, little had he expected he would be locked up i
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136421
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You hold me now, and pay attention.
Everything is new.
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136400
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try to keep him from eating the children
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136421
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No one knows where the wind comes from, but sure as hell it comes.
The executioner glances round the reception area. Nods to himself. Function versus form. Anodyne, instantly forgettable, like hotel rooms. Perfect.
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purely fun,
humane, scientific,
old time religious
experimentation
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136465
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She locked herself in the bathroom on our wedding night. That was my first clue that I had made a mistake.
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136400
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A subway train rumbled through the underground and she actually felt it slither under her feet. Her gaze lingered for a moment on the desiccated leaves and the small rectangle of blue cardboard the blustery wind had wedged between the gargoyle's talons.
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136300
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“It’s time we moved our relationship back into an upright position,” I said.
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The screen door slowly opened. I was expecting the second / coming of perfection.
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136321
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The muezzin calls the faithful,
his voice soaring over the rooftops,
over the trees and the brooks,
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136344
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There are moments in life where it's like you're driving late at night and you should be on your way home but really you're just rolling along aimlessly through the city streets when suddenly you turn a corner and realize the road is open and empty for miles to come, a…
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1363159
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I will wrap up in quilts that still smell of summer sun
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136320
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If you had gotten pregnant our last time, in 1967 (when you lied and told me “I guess I’m finally over you,”) then our son could have been that man you saw with the drooping moustache and his coattails flying in the lobby of the building in Louisville,
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136342
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I had a friend in high school that wore a size G bra and we would take guesses on how much her tits weighed in comparison to the rest of her body. I spent a night wondering how she kept upright.
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136311
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A 20-footer up on skids
sky-blue paint beneath the bondo
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136301
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It loomed -- unavoidable.
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136310
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The morning news.
The birthday present you bought me.
This poem.
My hair when I wake up in the morning, at any given point in the day.
Pigeon pose.
My singing voice.
How much I love myself.
Coffee.
Sex.
Not having sex.
Having movie star sex.
Ha
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136342
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Does God feel the same way /
whenever you practice your indifference toward me
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136331
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I awake to find a heavy chain shackled around my ankle. I try to remove it but cannot. The length of the chain runs through my apartment, sometimes coiling around itself, but eventually leading out my front door.
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136341
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We'd been talking about the baby, about what we would do, when the women began fighting after the wedding held in the church next to our apartment. Their fierce and piercing arguments crawled up the walls to the second story window we sat next to. We'd looked outside…
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136342
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Frank left Michiko’s building and walked into Central Park.
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136300
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A woman confronts her suspicions about her husband's fidelity.
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136241
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You're riding on the edge The edge of life and death Popping pills Shooting thrills Snorting coke and meth Running fast from it all Heading for a fall Needle in your arm What do you care Who does it harm Looks change at will With each and every pill …
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136286
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She cut me adrift
On an iceberg of words
And words melt
As you know
Looks like we may have
Gone out on the limb
A little too far without
A toe-hold on Reality
Doesn’t it?
But I saw the headlines:
Cows Bound for Slaughterhouse Make
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136243
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"...she became aware of
her cold saliva
dripping slowly over her bare
arm muscle,..."
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Is there a homunculus in my brain guiding everything like the pilot of an airliner?
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