1975 20 9
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“Your mother has problems,” he told the kids.
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1975107
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Every dive bar has a Max. Max is an elderly man. He wears a dented ball cap. He sits at the end of the bar, right along where it curves and then slams into the wall. You may find it cliché, but when Max enters the room, the patrons actually announce, “
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19741714
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I'm reading your remains.
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19742319
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He and I are still and somber at the kitchen table. We’re both wearing black and stare at each other through blood-shot eyes. The children’s thumps echo on the ceiling above. I think about the other family’s children.
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19731310
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Eve is eating a plum. The plum is cold and how it got cold is sort of a mystery, but there are mysteries everywhere and the cold juice on her face doesn't really incline her to worry much about mysteries.
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197298
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bullet points about her soul
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197000
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At the time, we only knew that our guest had been lying on the carpet long enough for the coffee spilled on him to have coagulated and almost completely dried, and for the French Vanilla to achieve the consistency of glue. Or, at least, a thicker glue.
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19691911
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Her bulldozer of a husband died five years ago.
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19692012
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We’re friends and all but we’re just me and him friends, we’re not the kind of friends that you bring to supper.
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19692113
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This is my house. You park in the back.
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This is a picture of flowers and hands.
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196854
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O’Malley imagined the blissful, narcotic innocence of Toby’s world where soft-shell crabs crawled into people’s mouths and hummed a happy tune as they were chewed and swallowed.
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196894
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I think that I write toward death and to stave off death and to remember the dead and to address what is dead in me.
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196712
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I asked the Eskimo if he'd ever seen a vagina before. “Because I can show you,” I whispered. Albert Huffman, a recent arrival to Hamden via Alaska, was not, in fact,…
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19661613
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Confused, I paused and locked eyes with the girl who’d just bounced it with the long, dark hair. “I just saw you with it.”
She stared back at me. “Do you see it in my hands now?”
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19664022
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You have arrived at the river, numb with the murmur of the city and the sleeplessness of anger, boredom, and too many people loving too many people too much. The heat in this night, not the moon as in ancient poems, is blazing; the moon is pink like the…
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19664822
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When the snow reached the windowsills I was no longer a virgin.
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1966117
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Wrapping Kevin It was his last…
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19652215
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There's a mutual recognition...
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196531
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She threw the wine glass on the floor.
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19654722
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Only strong personalities can endure such size, the weak ones are extinguished by it.
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196474
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Teddy laughs like a machine gun. People back away when they hear him. Every time I see him at work, I try to make his skinny body rattle. I would never back away.
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19632115
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In the dread / of night, navigate by the sliver moon
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196321
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He was the kind of cat who began lifting weights in the fourth grade.
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19631510
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If things continue to go bad for her she will become second wife in six years.
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196200
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Babylon Tower is AWESOME! The captain of the ship announced our arrival in time for everyone to view it on the screens. First Class got to view it from the viewing room, and they disembarked first. Steerage got off last. What we saw upon arrival was w
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196200
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Like gymnastics, shoplifting is a discipline of youth.
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19611416
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I get it. Poetry is an effort. Language is an effort. Words are an effort. Reading words is an effort. A big effort. It takes energy. Attention. Focus. Who has that? Nobody. So truly. I mean it. You don't have to read this. If you're already reading this you can…
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1961159
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Listen to me, at the end of all things, and I will tell you her story.
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1961107
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I don't remember much before my brother moved out, but one thing that stands out in my mind was the bathroom we shared. He'd pull a stool up to…
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196162
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She reached under the tissue and pulled out a third gift.
“It’s like peeling open my heart,” he said, “one layer for each year.”
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