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The man who will lead you can be nothing
if not already found underneath the
light-heartedness of heaven, (dawn)
if not under the light-heartedness
of snow.
He would have to have happiness
already sewn into his soul.
He bears no burdens
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110400
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The Moon The hatch of the lunar module hissed as it opened, a few puffs of leftover water vapor escaped toward them in a sparkling white cloud that rapidly dissolved…
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110401
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Ben gagged after shot-gunning the scotch. He hiccupped and it came back up through his nose. He grabbed a napkin and caught most of a shot and a half of Whyte & MacKay as it poured out his nose.
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110400
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Her friend had been drunk, and sometimes after two or three quarts of beer, he'd tell people that he was Jewish.
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110410
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I took my first shower away from home as if it were a ritual cleansing. It felt especially good, even exciting to be taking a shower in the bathroom of another woman. Why was that? Maybe because it didn't have marble around the bathtub, and it wasn't e
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110454
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On the beaches in the summer the fine hair rose up from under the material of your bikini and swirled around your deep navel, almost invisible to the naked eye, but not to the mind, which imagines everything funneling down into the center of your being,
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110431
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I’ve seen your tired souls
riding under the city
lost in the drowsiness
of morning calm commutes.
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110443
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A convoy of military vehicles is heading into the city as we are heading out.
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11041812
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the epiphany at the mast at midnight is not the same at dawn
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110411
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Performed October 21-22, Gallery 263, Cambridge, Mass. Kathy-Ann Hart, the Hostess; Ryan Wenke, Ubu; Tyler Catanella, Alfred Jarry; the author--technician.
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110487
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In the quiet dark, fathers reappear.
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110443
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Hail the yellow cab the yellow one will do just fine as second condiment to the sun
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110411
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#ShortStory #writers
are failed #poets...
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110395
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You wanted transcendence, wanted height, danger, the tracks blurred into murky distances behind and in front of you. You slipped, reached for it, starlight shining in your eyes, something you didn't have when I held your hand. We didn't fold the…
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110311
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On this day, a blinding sky
holds ribbed reams of clouds,
staccato against staggering blue.
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11031510
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The mirror can never talk back/
unless corrupted creases of the brain/
and its recombinant physical maladies//
elect to answer...
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110342
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Frank was about to take the first bite of a chicken salad sandwich.
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110311
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..Sheena's not there to make my morning coffee and the brain cells I feel slowly dying are not expiring because of bad Aussie pop songs.
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110376
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the late snow, though not welcomed...
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110300
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It’s the Tea, stupid. Drink up.
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110360
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Technique, Technique, Technique, Technique, TECHNIQUE!
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110332
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Everyman: I quit, remember? I’m in a twelve step program now.
Alcohol: Oh sweetie, that’s too bad, we had some great times together.
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110385
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We will collapse in a storm of images
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110221
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The kitchen is full of old girlfriends. I avoid them. They are munching on cheddar and sharing stories I'm sure I don't want to hear.
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1102145
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“In other words you're going to lie through your teeth..."
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110200
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When we crossed the California/Oregon border, I had this
vivid image of sleeping bags filled with human bones. I shook
my head and the scene would not go away. The woods must be
full of dead campers, hitch hikers, run-a-ways, and black
teenage whores
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110285
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Perhaps my grandparents, Fred and Lela, when they were growing up....
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110200
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each vertebra is a golden cavalier, brave in upright vigilance; stoic heroes.
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1102102
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So, once, we were all like sitting around the kitchen table, and it was so kind of like an okay sort of day to begin with. We were all like a secret theater of strangers, a living children's secret circle, meeting right in…
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110222
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A single woman should regard every train ride as an opportunity, I once read in one of those “How to Find A Boyfriend” books. “When boarding the train, don't take the first available seat,“ the author advised. “Walk through all the cars…
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