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That was some root beer float. It cost us a grand total of $275.
She pulls up in front of Fenton’s Ice Cream Parlor and leaves the motor running while I jump out and run into the parlor.
It was early evening. We HAD to have a root beer float. You
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My emulations always fail. At heart,/
I don’t want bougainvillea nor blushing pilgrims
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arrogant, sullen,/
supple and ambiguous,//
English seems the ideal tongue
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The gated community of Dos was named for one of Babbage’s landmark educational figures, Ms. Dos.
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Every day from my window I saw John Brigham's dog making its way across my field. The dog picked carefully through the shorn corn stubble taking the same route, I'm guessing, it took when the stalks made a shaded rustling forest. There is a narrow path…
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I saw three kids the other day, two girls and a boy, crouched in conspiracy
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After you lost sight in your left eye, mom made me go on the road with you that last summer to help you see.
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On the beaches in the summer the fine hair rose up from under the material of your bikini and swirled around your deep navel, almost invisible to the naked eye, but not to the mind, which imagines everything funneling down into the center of your being,
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I ask if anyone has a poem or a story they would like to read. Everybody's hand shoots up.
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Diane couldn’t shake her compunction. Though eight and a half months had passed, nothing felt right anymore. Their conversation played out in her dreams, and stilled her during everyday errands.
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You wouldn’t believe an organ the size of a heart could scream like a nine-year-old sissy girl but mine did.
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Adam hitched his dinosaur to a covered wagon. He drove the Virgin Mary to the Faire. Shiva rode behind them in a silver limousine combing out his long and flowing hair.
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One said 'Yes, I remember.' He was dark and tall and slender
A masterful pretender who laid roses on the floor
Appearing on the eve of morrow, so slow and full of sorrow
With a costume he did borrow, borrowed from the poet's lore
From the rare and rad
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We wait for a server to bring our coconut cream pie. His favorite. I hate coconut.
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A daydreams about a woman whose name he’s forgotten next to B, who’s been drunk since afternoon.
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He also looked at the tv with a detachment he sensed was dangerous and the sensation scared him so he ran into the kitchen and felt ashamed alone in the hot room and trembled.
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For so long as I think I shall live.
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It’s just another
Day where I feel tired, but I
Don’t know why it’s so.
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Better move ‘cause I hear them comin’ up the other side.
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He bounds like a lunar explorer into the Edinburgh Castle, the goofy porcelain busts glaring at him with contempt.
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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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Lullaby for a dragon baby who breaks the bough with bottled fists escapes the armored cradle stealing swords from terra cotta men to slash the Ming canopy and loose the butterflies that will free
Ho Chi Minh from the fire.
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I woke like an animal / breeding thoughts like flies
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“It's a combination of ‘Survivor' and ‘College Bowl' says Sister Mary Agnesita, the show's host. “We take four very strict nuns and match them up with boys who were cut-ups in their grade school classes."
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Lights of human occupation burn/
in patterns like the growth/
of a bacillus, lethal and prodigious,
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No, your clever costume won’t protect you.
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So, my wife got fired from her job for being three minutes late five times. But he had it in for her, the fatty boss. He was lazy and she was smart, in line for his job. And she had a workman's comp case against the hospital—she'd slipped in pudding in the cafeteria…
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By the time the forked tongue of the flag extended flat like it was pressed between two of my thick volumes on weather forecasting, the man was still walking with his nose glued to the ground.
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Crouching like little children in a game of hide & seek, we entered the old house, slowly
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It was cold in the church. The Lutherans were freezing to death. The Catholics brought their winter coats.
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