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Coffee comes in KCups and you can't fight five wars at the same time.
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I want you to tell me the truth, she said. The whole fucking truth.
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Once in a while I have the time of my life /
in this god-forsaken Earth:
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When Reg Cuff heard that Sandlewick's abandoned Tiny Town model village was up for sale, he sold his home and failing business and moved right in.
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Giant stars are beautiful, when you stand directly in front of them.But touching them, is a whole other story.Junior had touched one. A strong burning sensation flew through his arm and down his spine. A feeling of electrocution and burning at the same…
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WAITING FOR HURRICANE DENNIS, FLORIDA 2005 With soft eyes, she quizzed, shivered, said: “Where's Dad? Where's Ric? Will you leave me here alone? Are you all going to leave? Where's Peter? Do you feel all right? We're…
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Dragonfly She danced out of the burning rubble, wrapped in a shawl made of iridescent silk. It must have been her grandmother's. Her arms were wings, the silk translucent and fluttering. Fire fell from the sky. Thatched roofs, walls of mud-daubed sticks, the huts…
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look at the shape here / is it not pleasing to the eye?
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You sleep. The time is soft and slow.
Your dreams are covered with the snow.
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"Don't pull too hard," warned Father. "You might sever it from the body, spraying blood into your eyes."
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Her plastic shopping bag brushes your leg. You look into it and all you see is a 2 liter of Coke, a bag of Lay’s potato chips and a package of Oreos. It’s so oddly touching, so purely American, that your heart breaks a little bit. You want to hug t
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He is sitting in the infinite rain
and the water is making him some infinite silhouette
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To conceive of them separated was unthinkable to every wet-eyed soul at the burial.
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This tanka poem was inspired by news report that the Macy's of "Miracle on 34th Street" fame has a white Santa in front and a black Santa in back.
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I remember going out to a restaurant with some guy and a friend of mine who brought her little boy along. And suddenly her boy said, “I want to hear the man talk.” Well, that stopped us. Smart kid, I thought. He was fed up hearing her women friends talk
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Ben exited the uptown Broadway Local at 103rd and oriented himself.
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... “All power is just behind your belly. Look. Knot of belt – just in front of navel – navel is eye of chi.” ...
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son a superfly/alligator shoe clad/networking man/working a beeper and flip phone/twisting blueberry spliffs/on ma's porch
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I suggested when we passed the flesh shack that we turn around and that I go in and say to the sex workers that the Russians are fetching $3.5K per hour in Manhattan and it's private, unlike there at that road-side shack.
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I feel like I should tell you
things about strength.
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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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Email flash: Kate Winslet is separated hope wells in dry souls
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This time he was dressed in a snap-brimmed hat, zoot suit with a gold chain and two-toned shoes; something out of a sad, lost Los Angeles past. I had no choice but to follow him as he walked down stairs that led to the Metro. We stood near one another,…
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Some of the elderly men and women are coming forward....
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“I love women. They’re like goddesses.”
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My table offers up the gutted calf/
with carrots and potatoes yanked /
alive and whole
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Whistler pounded a nuanced nail,
into our inferior foreheads.
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Ben followed Jean-Claude’s white Fiat. Every time Ben shifted gears, he was reminded of Arris’s punch.
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inside i know my heart rattles
cause outside i'm only seeing
that the truth is in tatters
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