1420 5 2
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Can we ever truly know reality? I don’t think so. But fly in comfort my friend. Lean back and enjoy the thrust of those engines.
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142041
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IV. From Hoover Dam The intent of passive presence wreathes an endless ring, Invisible, beyond all thoughts and change to sickness. This hour beats sibylline as vacancy, breathing Through mouths that do not taste their nothingness. I do not know where you are;…
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142064
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My head is nailed to yesterday.
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142042
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I sense that I may have won a few hearts and minds with my stirring peroration. "Can I get anybody a Republican Party beer koozie to take home?"
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142021
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In moving crowds I plan to break you.
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1420129
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Your cairns/
are litter in the streets
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142032
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The worm was stabbed where two rivers branch:/ the thing that would slay was slain.
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142022
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This is the record of a drowning.
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142032
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while you peed on that little old lady's begonias
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141965
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My dumb body
that does not speak
still
cried out your name
last night.
Did you hear it,
maybe
in your sleep?
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141900
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—They turned him into a time bomb. Listen close, and you can hear the tick-tick-tick.
—All I hear is snoring. How do you know he was brainwashed?
—Because he can’t remember a thing about the experiment.
—I can say this: If he can’t remember anyth
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141933
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The retired, widowed receptionist slapped one hand to the base of her throat with a gasp . . .
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141921
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The elephant was breakable and I know that my grandmother held her breath every time I went near it, and I was repeatedly cautioned that it was not to be played with only admired. She taught me in her own way, respect for it. She may have commented on the green with a bit…
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141920
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I’m starting to feel more interested in my savings account.
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141922
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The boy buckled in and told his mom, “No mommy, I can do it myself”
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141922
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You are rounded just the way the mountain is, out the window. The sun sets on both of you now. Three of you, I should say: the mountain, and you, and little Frank, who is currently batting my ear because he doesn't want to be named Frank but it's for your dead father,…
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141902
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Looking down you wonder, when did I eat pineapple? and Am I really this awesome or am I a facsimile of something that really sucks, even if it's that 'it's so bad it's good' kind of thing? Nope, it's just bad.
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141931
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He's gonna find he wasn't born lucky after all, his propaganda has got up on the wrong side of the bed and sidled onto the couch.
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141988
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PATHOLOGY How awful it is to dissect a marriage! It lays naked on the therapist's steely table. He makes his first incision into the bloated stomach of our malnourished union. He polishes his glasses and peers, cuts the thin taut skin of our…
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141932
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All the time I'm eating I can't help but think of the many different tuna melts I have ordered in diners and coffee shops and how each of them disappointed me...
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141911
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Liz lies in bed next to a stranger. He is snoring softly, and she turns her head toward him, looking at his eyelids flutter as he enters REM sleep. He stirs and rolls over on his side away from her. As he does so, he pulls part of the comforter with him, exposing her…
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141911
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Stanley had a crush on Sarah. They were in Ms. Goldman's freshman chemistry class together fifth period. That day they were working on homework at Sarah's house while her parents were gone. Stanley was in heaven.“Break time!” Sarah woke Stanley from daydreaming,…
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141931
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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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141933
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"Let somebody else deal with for a while, man, I'm tired."
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141963
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Now I know
All you need is coffee
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1419179
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he considers the swirl of galaxies/
with their black hole hearts,
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141832
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"Don't pull too hard," warned Father. "You might sever it from the body, spraying blood into your eyes."
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141842
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Some great, doubtless precious;
some hollow, likely empty;
some only shards, but you never know...
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141810
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He, an irregular chap,
Was known for his hat with a flap.
Had fleet feet and a very strong back.
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141855
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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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