1248 4 3
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Man, this bearskin rug was a big, awkward sonofabitch on his back....
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124855
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The world is a mighty funny place. It spins wildly and we are held down by its strong ghostly gravity. We're still able to communicate with one another over morning coffee and delicious cake donuts dipped in chocolate. Some of us used to keep…
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124884
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These days, you seem to disappear like bread tasted and devoured
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124831
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The whole scene smells like paranoia.
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124832
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Over the last years of her life, my mornings began when Mom decided to play. Sitting on her black, ball-and-claw stool, she'd raise the key cover, stretch her neck and shoulders, and take slow, deliberate breaths. A deep, meditative state descended over the room and…
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124823
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I even listen to the Ugly Kid Joe version. I fall asleep perplexed and disheartened.
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124864
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The voice is back! That voice, like milk and honey, like mother, like the school nurse who bandaged my scraped knee.
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124832
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For the camera
she smiles
otherwise not
and
only when she is
standing beside him
But for the camera?
for the crowd
for posterity
yes
For their children
for the future?
yes, again yes
a thousand times
until her face
be
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124831
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With spring rain
And greening buds
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124822
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In the end, he knew he wasn’t going home.
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124811
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I went back to the Charles Bridge over the Vltava River and felt the plaque of the Wall of Gropers, and that was where we hatched our plan, in front of my ancestors. I could just feel their presence there. They would be with me, the Gropers of Prague.
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124800
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There was a bird on the windowsill, a sparrow, its silhouette backlit by a view of Uptown. She remembered many sparrows during her forced trips to Mercy Hospital...That was all over now...
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124800
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“All I want,” he was heard to say, “is a date with a really
good-looking woman before I go away.”
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124844
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instead of gun metal deceit, sounds of malice;be a drop of rain.
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124722
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In the small towns of central and southern Illinois there lives a very indecent sort of man.
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124711
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Damn, the light turned
green
on me.
Wasn't ready.
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124742
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So we stayed on the train admiring the time.
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124731
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whenever i see youit feels like birds are flyingin and out of my facemy head is ghost-like and birds flythrough iti want to hold the birds insidemy head and turn them intosex maniacs
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124776
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When the teacher was out of the room Myron pretended to play with himself, saying, “down boy” and smiling to the nervous gasping and fake coughs from the other classmates and, since he's my close friend, I think he does silly stuff like this to contend with…
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124797
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Our half-life, radioactive decay, particles shed leaving dust and bone."twilight years", "golden age", "evening of life"?Bullshit. I'm not ready to stop pumping high octane.You said, "I'll take you to Paris."Hemingway's address is still in your notebook, I saw it.I'll wear…
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124744
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Poems reflect their poets. /
Mine: ugly but loved. /
It is just as well.
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124777
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we can say all we couldn’t say
when the ears could hear us
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124754
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124732
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She is not centered, but she finds her way.
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1246139
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Every year I have a birthday, and every year
another of my friends succumbs to cancer or suicide.
That's
a shitty gift. That is devoutly not to be wished.
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124611
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There’s a room
Full of white
And it smells
Like bleach and
Iron
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124601
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The Devil’s laugh was the screech of wind. Ignacio Carillo heard Him as he dug the grave that would hold the body of his beloved wife.
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124677
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Spring Squirrel Spring is here now A dead squirrel in the road Regrettably not Seasonal Surprise Inside warm spring rain Coiled up like Jack in the Box Resides a snow storm Bad Vibrations telephone shouting an…
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1246108
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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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124600
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Most keep their eyes closed. Some look up at the cloud covering the kneeling ecclesiastical trash perched high. Others look around, overly warm.
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