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My husband says you don’t have to tip the owner of an establishment, just employees. I never heard of that rule, and suspect it is another example of him just being cheap.
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Picnicking In Mt. Misery Cemetery We breathe the damp shade, plum trees shining in a woodland where there are few wrong things I want to remember-- the steel fence of the power company blazing under an arc light is one. On this day of ripening fruit …
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Character & Fitness, the opening chapter to my novel, "Death of the Dying City."
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Reports have been spreading fast
that an actual living poet
has been found right outside the
borders of Berkeley
Rumors grew into a wildfire of speculation
Saturday night when one of them
a tall graying older specimen
more or less in the
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They sit across from each other and she smiles as if they were in a normal place.
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i am two / one part me / another part them
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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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Why, these were the young hands
that I kissed only last night.
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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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Clatters and clatters ensued, and the splash destroyed all denial.
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Rose would have preferred to survey the wreckage alone, between sips of her earl grey, but the morning light drew her attention to blonde and jet black curls weaving into folds of fabric.
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Have you measured the cups, the conveyors' yield? Do you know the span? I am the LORD your God, she murmured.
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What
I learned/one summer/in the North East/Thessaloniki heat was. . . .
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As a child I drowned myself in the pages of books, and as a writer I prefer to be left alone with my imagination.
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"...a head dizzy from my abuse."
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She was from Tennessee,
with advantages over me.
An upbringing surrounded by books
and sensitivity.
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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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“I love women. They’re like goddesses.”
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Sometimes, you compare your living situation to a prison because it makes you feel better. "At least I have a fridge," you think to yourself.
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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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No freebies. You want to read it, you have to read all of it.
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Where are you going, boy who never was?
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At six a.m. he was awakened by the alarm on the watch, and found he could not remove it from his wrist, though he was able to turn it off. Of course, she was gone, but had left a little patchouli-scented note on a pillow.
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a man sees salamander bands / a-cracklin on the scree
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She is a manifold of temporal flows.
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She’s new, with the enthusiasm of a new person. And everyone wants the new girl.
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Buck, naked, has no words. The best he can manage is a dopey strangulated cough. His wife, who is clothed, stands before him, next to the waterbed that took Buck half a day to force into the trailer.
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always thought you'd show up with a good friendly grin, your heart full of gnosis and the rest of you dressed in denim or terrene hues,back from across the world to honor our sacrosanct thing maybe it would be in the wind chiseled afternoon,or the dusk by tables…
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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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