1966 17 14
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I'm reading your remains.
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196698
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bullet points about her soul
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19651911
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Her bulldozer of a husband died five years ago.
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196594
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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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196531
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Chap. XI: A Place Beauteous of Which I Dare Not Speak And when I had released the spirit from his worldly prison, he did show to me a way that man does not travel, though travel it I did with him until we should chance to see such things as should never be polaroided (and…
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19642319
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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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196400
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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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196331
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She threw the wine glass on the floor.
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19632012
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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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19634722
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Only strong personalities can endure such size, the weak ones are extinguished by it.
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19632113
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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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19621310
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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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196212
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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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19614822
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When the snow reached the windowsills I was no longer a virgin.
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196174
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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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19604022
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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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196054
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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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196021
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He was the kind of cat who began lifting weights in the fourth grade.
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19591613
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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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19592115
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In the dread / of night, navigate by the sliver moon
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1959107
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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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1958117
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Wrapping Kevin It was his last…
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1957159
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Listen to me, at the end of all things, and I will tell you her story.
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195700
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Like gymnastics, shoplifting is a discipline of youth.
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195700
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“Ah, there’s the Tasmanian tiger,” the visitor says in an American accent, maybe midwestern. “It’s called a ‘thyracine,’ right?”
“Thylacine, yes.”
“Un huh. Thylacine. Extinct now, isn’t it?”
“Oh! Let’s hope not
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19562215
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There's a mutual recognition...
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19561416
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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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1956177
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Real men don’t screw around in Canada, he confided to the strawberry blonde sitting beside him at the Houston bar. He’d bought her a couple of beers, and her body language said she was interested.
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19561510
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If things continue to go bad for her she will become second wife in six years.
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19551311
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Her mother dressed her like a little girl would dress a doll.
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