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“Hi, I'm Mike, and I don't wanna work ... Wanna play foos?”
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In the morning I listen through an ear-trumpet
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She’d picked him up at a party freshman year, calling him Danny. Until then he had always been Daniel. He’d said nothing and his name was changed.
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Violet goes with her mother to the home, delivering cookies to old folks. She's getting to hate how she goes along with everything her mother asks. Some of her friends are rebelling already, and Violet feels something under her skin. It's still just a dark shape, lurking…
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It’s that time of year. The combustible mixture of booze, poinsettia corsages and the soulful sounds of Eddie Venturi and the Fastidians will cause people to get up and dance at holiday office parties who have no business doing so.
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...society has tampered with its denotation so much that it is almost incomprehensible without context.
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In the moment
I crinkle the aluminum foil,
The sandwich now a deeper
Part of me
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the strength in you i envy/ leaves me naked, sweating in the dust/ while you possess what ethic i pretend to have/ in the face of those who expect from me/ so much more.
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He fought off the U-boat packs in the Atlantic — one hand on the tiller, one on the torpedo launch button.
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" . . . the government works for the aliens now, taking over the world. That's why everything's so screwed up."
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If you stop, you starve//
and they just offer what you do/
to others, starved already,/
and schooled, as you, in servitude.
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JOSEPH YOUNG Joseph Young You might start with the top of the head, where the heat goes. This is first, first from the womb, the first word. Joseph Young There might have been a faith that placed it in the mouth, not the…
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the things we will accomplish, the things we will leave to others
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If Mad Dog were interrogated by female U.S. forces in a combat-riven no-woman’s-land to see if he was really an American, he couldn’t name the most recent WNBA champion.
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We perform our chosen duty— naming/
beauties and atrocities within
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The following is a true story. Though it happened 35 years ago, it happened last night too. Everyday a new convert is welcome, a new tapestry begun. A new hunger is born.
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Anneliese inserted one of her crystal drops in Hymen's left ear and kept her left earring in. For a quarter, she bought a handful of cashews and plopped them on a red napkin.
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Even mockingbirds are scarce;
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The white Boeing 747, all three hundred and sixty eight seats of it, prepared to depart from Johannesburg Airport. Mild conditions on a clear flight path coupled with the soothing voice of the first officer didn't allay my unease. I offered a friendly nod to the…
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Life's a beach? A bitch? Same thing.
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Her eyes still fixed on him as if to whisper her concerns of fidelity.
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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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You're sitting in a darkened theatre with Gothic ceilings and one exit watching the latest Alan Ladd film with William Bendix and Veronica Lake.
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Dear Brandon Lee: I know that you're dead and can't respond to letters, but I've always felt a connection to you.
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What
I learned/one summer/in the North East/Thessaloniki heat was. . . .
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We exist to facilitate/
successful conclusions of hopeless lives.
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