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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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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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110275
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Border town meant one thing; we were caught up real good in the middle of something preternaturally dangerous; and understanding was at the very least a hundred miles or so away in either direction. All I…
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110211
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It was a mildly windy day of the working week in the financial district of the city—the bright morning sun was out—when a security guard was called to the fifteenth floor to deal with a disruption.
“This way.”
Someone pointed to a desk. At the desk
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110263
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When nothing's coming in All I have are fragments Cloudy memories Uncompleted projects Disappointments loom large and threaten to define me I am only as good as what I produce And now I feel empty So how do I shine How do I find the spark that…
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110297
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she had a chipped tooth...
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110264
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The voice is back! That voice, like milk and honey, like mother, like the school nurse who bandaged my scraped knee.
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110230
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…she smelled of sunflowers.
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1102128
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My mother should have been a minister or a peace officer. Instead, she was a homemaker who ran the home like an agency. There were certain hard and fast rules.
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110221
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I woke up when the smoke alarm insisted. Either the curtains were on fire or I hadn't changed the battery.
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110272
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If I should stumble into cheerfulness/
remind me of all the business models
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110244
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Charted stars by the dozens /
with a side of frizzle onions /
dawn showers us with glitter.
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110210
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“A story shines brighter through a tear in your eye,” You say
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11021513
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I asked the hospice nurse about maggots.
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110111
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Charley carried the corpse over to the dinghy and tossed it into the pool of rain water collected inside. The headless snake swerved through the water, oblivious to its fate, powered perhaps by exposed nerves and muscle memory.
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110161
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HORDES OF MEN desolated, struck down, destroyed, sunken form of skin and skeleton, bare cloth matted to torso, bodycage and hipbone, face and neck darkened, bloating to black, rain the endless dream stuck fast in the stone-dead skull and blood a fine sheen over all,…
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1101149
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and you imagine euthanizing them if what she says is true, that she is leaving them to you in her will.
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110197
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This is the Minuteman tine/
of the three-tined fork//
we can stick into the modern world/
when it’s done-- a MAD triad.
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110122
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The boy buckled in and told his mom, “No mommy, I can do it myself”
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110131
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Most people come to dislike me because of the things I say.
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1101177
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Eat the Body/
Drink the Blood/
Perfect the sacrifice,
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110196
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Wind was a sorry excuse for force
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110132
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A parody of John Ashbery I have been preconditioned likewise by the ligatures of the roof. It has bypassed even the lightning. When I started this essay I (poetics equalling dissemination, like a toilet plug) admired, and I in the book produced…
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110110
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I'm going up and down elevators all over the Financial District and I have no office.
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110100
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Those in the house don’t notice the sweaty woman on their lawn any more than they notice the Ruger LCP pistol she holds limply in her right hand.
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110131
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Though his heart aches
his melody seems to flow
It creeps into the dreams
of all in slumber in the valley below
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110100
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There was a bird on the windowsill, a sparrow, its silhouette backlit by a view of Uptown. She remembered many sparrows during her forced trips to Mercy Hospital...That was all over now...
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