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politics only add to assault and distract
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126633
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I feel like I should tell you
things about strength.
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126621
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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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126641
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126686
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My table offers up the gutted calf/
with carrots and potatoes yanked /
alive and whole
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126600
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She can still be normal, says Momma, knowing my sister can’t hear, forgetting I can.
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126633
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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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126641
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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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126621
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You sleep. The time is soft and slow.
Your dreams are covered with the snow.
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126521
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Where are you going, boy who never was?
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126553
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He is sitting in the infinite rain
and the water is making him some infinite silhouette
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126512
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indelicate, as everything arrives at once.
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126532
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To conceive of them separated was unthinkable to every wet-eyed soul at the burial.
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126500
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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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126521
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Ben exited the uptown Broadway Local at 103rd and oriented himself.
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12653118
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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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126533
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Once in a while I have the time of my life /
in this god-forsaken Earth:
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After her grief had subsided, the wife felt immediate relief. / Suddenly she was free to abandon or pursue loneliness
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126544
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Bud Light, B. O.
and Freeloader Heaven,
they step onto the
back of the bus without a cent
We pass by the Karma Wash
but no one gets off the bus
We pass by the
Endless Soup and Salad Kitchen
where we witness a crowd
swarming over a ch
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126500
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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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The woman leapt from the top of the burning building. The flames reddened the faces of the watching crowd. The heat pushed them back. The woman hit the ground. The crowd oooooed. If only I'd been a firewoman, I thought, with a ladder as tall as a building and a…
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126500
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look at the shape here / is it not pleasing to the eye?
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126432
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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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126484
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An infested, indifferent universe . . .
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126420
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It's advertised as a romance. The poster shows a Sudanese woman with a child at her side collecting gum from Acacia trees.
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1264138
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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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126474
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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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126442
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126433
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As she slunk to her topless Mercedes
sparkling curbside, wax job hand rubbed
in Hamburg, testosterone heads turned
wishing similar treatment.
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126431
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I once dreamed of taking a trip to Northumbria with a lover and reading the poem together on the fells.
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