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we can say all we couldn’t say
when the ears could hear us
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1073148
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107311
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I have a fascination with Dickens and London and this was inspired by my next novel.
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107377
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this elegant silver wrench/
which from the opposite side/
becomes a golden Phillips-head
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10731910
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got the space heater going in the desert
got a lot of space out there somewhere
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107321
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They put me in charge of developing a drug that stifles fear.
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107322
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The Cleavers were never really undone by anything. Everyone, however, has a limit. June manages it all, as usual, with her characteristic grace, lovely crinoline - and a bit of manipulation.
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107311
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Everybody knew the McDonald’s at the Waterfront was selling theraflu stamp bags, and I guess I’d heard how bad it was for you—they’d had reports of dumbasses ODing on channel 2, 4, and 11—but it was a lot stronger than regular heroin and a lot cheaper...
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107330
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There were more of us before, laying in a puddle cuddling on the floor with heads tucked into the crooks of arms where light scattered their crowns in the morning and no machine exists for me to use trying to find that morning again. Carl could go off the side of the…
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107310
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There's one graveyard for the part-timers and another for the full-timers. Ours is a little nicer, but we're still all going to hell. Do you remember St. Petersburg? No, you're memory's not that good.
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107375
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From this fundamental simplicity,/
houses, cities, regions./
A nebula stretches across the grid.
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107310
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Sometimes, to be sad, you don't need tears.
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107342
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That morning in the driving rain a sequence of automobiles appeared on the streets in the region with headlights in the form of television monitors
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107300
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107376
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You look at me with that contemptuous smirk while I'm here in Walmart dressed in sweats and house slippers, sloppy, a bit fat, trying to figure out which electric toothbrush to buy.
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107311
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I survived as a brave thought,
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107221
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107221
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I liked her when I first saw herShe came to meI liked her hair and body and eyesBu there was something wrong with Her teethScarred beautyI hit it off with her easily at the barThe others didn't like herShe was a cookShe told me about her narcolepsy, ADHD, Tourettes…
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107298
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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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107210
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at the front of the bus/ sways a white-veiled woman:/ gnarled hands upon/ a bag of palms,
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107220
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I’m starting to feel more interested in my savings account.
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10721612
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“Have the cousins arrived?”
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107296
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She heads toward the end of the island and doesn't look back.
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107200
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At the annual Earth Day celebration, Frieda looked up in the sky and saw a lone goose. It had caught her attention with its call, echoing off the buildings and trees.
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107297
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Although it was unlikely that she would witness mobsters racing up or down Wabash Avenue with guns ablast, she paced behind the hotel's ground-floor glass eyeing traffic for fifteen or twenty minutes . . .
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107211
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A Halloween drabble. Happy Halloween to all!
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107211
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She is walking to the café to meet her friend. Her friend is there already because she walked from where was getting her haircut. Her friend sent her a text message that said, “OMW” for…
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1072105
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Not quite full, but bright,/
December 23rd.__
A waning moon for New Year’s Day-/
Portent?
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107211
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She was, they said, everyman’s armful;
Bedding down with her was most likely harmful.
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107234
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Dark morning sleet whitecrusts the world
once more, shrouds remains
of January thaw:
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