1267 4 3
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...she had marked the stars with a blue pen, connected the dots to make Andromeda, Cassiopeia, told us of the gods behind the stars...
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126610
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Excuse me, can I now
ask to change my favorite childhood color
from green to yellow?
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1266135
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each act of creation is a jolt of expectation
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126642
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1. Pharmacy Randy approached the counter. It appeared that the only person in the pharmacy was the pharmacist himself, Mr. Crubby, and from the sound of the stiff white bag crumpling he was busy saving someone's life, or at least ameliorating someone's …
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126655
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Her name was Carrie. And yes, it was love at first sight. Yes, she was a client, and you were supposed to keep your hands off the clients. Everyone in real estate knew that. She came into my office and took a seat in the reception area. I had a listing on Cedar…
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126684
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In the moment
I crinkle the aluminum foil,
The sandwich now a deeper
Part of me
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126600
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The woman tapped a dark plastic stirrer on the tabletop in front of her to emphasize something she was saying.
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126612
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Every time it happens,
I think of Amber Heard
and how hard you can be slapped
without a bruise forming.
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126611
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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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126660
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“The first thing you must remember,” Polly tells the Levensons, “is that every penny you spend on your guests is that much less you can spend on your horses.”
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126611
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{ a Triolet }A smile, a wave as I stepped out Into another life altogether ‘Twas little enough to talk about A smile, a wave as I stepped out And O' how after they did shout (Yet now we only talk of weather) A smile, a wave as I stepped out Into another life…
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126651
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Now that Spring has sprung I am reminded about the day a former neighbour complained about my squirrel collection. I love to feed the black squirrels that gather in my yard and she became convinced I had trained several ninja squirrels to enter her garden
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126681
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He was a Jack Russell terrier
hanging like a baby
in a carrier
strapped to my chest
He had all four legs
wrapped around me
and was licking me
with his long tongue
I asked him what his name
was, and in a real low voice
he said
Min
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126665
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I heard them praying to some god
none of us had ever heard of.
I'm glad I went to the funeral
and still have the yellow rose that I
did not throw into his grave.
At some point
you have to stop nibbling
from the moldy cake.
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126642
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Frank left Michiko’s building and walked into Central Park.
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126520
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it’s more about how all those words look around each other. he’s more interested in the shape of things, than the reality....
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126500
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It was a bright day in April, the cruelest month, and the gears and pumps of the train beat on into the still air.
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126551
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a man sees salamander bands / a-cracklin on the scree
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126586
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She cut me adrift
On an iceberg of words
And words melt
As you know
Looks like we may have
Gone out on the limb
A little too far without
A toe-hold on Reality
Doesn’t it?
But I saw the headlines:
Cows Bound for Slaughterhouse Make
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126511
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The priest went into the place in those parts, the priest an old pear or grape gotten ripe and then moreso, but never actually expiring . He was hunched and it looked like he was broken at some integral part, but nobody could tell for sure where. One time, a bat…
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126597
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a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
ticket
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126520
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She had the smile of a pixie on mushrooms in a disco ball universe, and I dug her style.
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126513
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Seeing her in black /
with his arm around her /
from the other side /
of a glass door. /
He gave her a beer. /
She might’ve been thirsty, /
uncomfortable.
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126521
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Roy Williams was his real name. It had been for the last 15 years. Since retiring from the Firm he’d lived innocuously in an apartment near the Old City walls of Dubrovnik doing the occasional quick job for them. You never entirely retired from the Firm.
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126565
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The one at
dusk is not the one you met this morning.
That one's gone like a head in the window.
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126563
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She was from Tennessee,
with advantages over me.
An upbringing surrounded by books
and sensitivity.
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1265105
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I remember, when I was selling real estate, how you could always tell when there'd been a divorce. One room was conspicuously left emptied of its contents, and these rooms were never swept or tidied. Instead they were left just as they were when the par
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126511
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Lester walked back into the house. He was hungry but didn’t know what he wanted to eat. Really, he couldn’t remember how to fix anything he wanted. He walked over to turn on the television, but couldn’t find the on/off button. Surely the damn thing had an
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126522
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the small break of consciousness that is my dreamswaterso much wateri can never forgive the watertoo many tears
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126575
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Everything conspires to kill you:
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