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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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124831
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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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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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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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124844
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Poems reflect their poets. /
Mine: ugly but loved. /
It is just as well.
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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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1247139
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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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124742
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So we stayed on the train admiring the time.
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12471710
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I arrange my stones in circles
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124732
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Self-possession. He had it. In his arctic white t-shirt; blonde haired, broad shouldered, unburdened. “I will make you love me,” he had said, in a bar.
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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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124700
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Normally, after her shift, Linda would make herself a latte, untie her apron, and study at one of the tables. That evening, however, KEXP kept playing songs with grating guitar riffs, and loud laughers were everywhere. She chugged her coffee, burning her tongue. Then, she…
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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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124710
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Freedom brings its own fears.
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we can say all we couldn’t say
when the ears could hear us
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She is not centered, but she finds her way.
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Millennium jumped strumming lithium gum cumulative outnumber humiliated résumé jumpy instruments
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