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Charlie Hancock missed the bus. Started walking.
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146531
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I suppose I'd rather Tomorrow be heroic.
It would make the passing of time less villainous.
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14651210
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We are our own pathogens.
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146597
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I see them walking. They pass right by my house. If I’m outside, I sit down on our porch and watch the parade. Sometimes I watch them out of a front window.
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146533
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His granddaughter, Ivy, sat on his knee looking at an old photo album she found under the couch during one of her afternoon explorations. She made him wipe off the dust and cobwebs before he took her through all the pictures, per normal protocol. The albu
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146562
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her expressive sigh releasing. Sated. The last of our kind, evolving flightless we remain on the ground, culling through corpulent consumption.
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146532
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Then I see her walking down the grass aisle: my assignment. She looks nothing like the image I have been trained with, but her identifier is strong.
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He sees the dogs through the window, his babies, sleeping on opposite ends of the couch. His girl, lying supine, hind legs spread, grotesquely, almost comically, as far as they can without being flush with the cushion. His boy, Cosmo, face down, the power…
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146597
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Thus, more people can drown//
and leave their bones
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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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People act, today, as if there were no such thing as Death - i.e. they "psychotically" reify the notion that we "live on" in our work or more pointedly/poignantly in our offspring and in society qua Creation. This tendency was half present in the old Greeks - the …
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146454
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Along with Bad Bunny
comes the reckless dancing
the ambulance chases
and the long, drawn-on faces
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1464106
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The screen door slowly opened. I was expecting the second / coming of perfection.
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146400
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I am the ocean. My soulless organs live in all of its motionless movement. I am the low. The high. The in between. I am nothing. Back and forth, I simply float along: existing, rising, and then falling into a life that can be considered one big decision left…
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Now I hear a woman's voice. It sounds familiar, like I know her, but in my daze it is slightly distorted, like I am underwater and she is calling to me beneath the waves. She tells me not to be afraid. Her words are calming; they soothe away the panic and confusion. I…
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146400
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I made a man of men. He made a man of me, the way all men are finished, in tragedy and sorrow. Together, we make a story, for other men, brothers and sisters.
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--"Look at us," she murmurs. "Tristan and Isolde without the adultery."
--"Well, you can't have everything."
--"No? I heard otherwise."
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When exactly does cheese go bad? it simply does not, I say.
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146443
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Today, the buxom neighbor carrying blintzes
Egged me not to care about
What’s not flat. She forgot
To bend, clanging together
Some fronts and sides.
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146411
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She remembers the days when she could have purchased every card in the store and found the words to fill them all.
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146441
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I was like a bullet shot from a university tower
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146455
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They’ve deduced she’s still of sound mind and body. What do they know?
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Picture it-/
air not clogged with the shit//
that makes Beijing the dark joke/
of the developed world.
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146454
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A gentle man,
and a fierce woman,
charmed one another
in a shaded gazebo.
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we can say all we couldn’t say
when the ears could hear us
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146411
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“I love women. They’re like goddesses.”
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My Mother always said that a storm was death knocking.
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Frank left Michiko’s building and walked into Central Park.
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