1303 10 6
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a girl in a red cap
flashes by
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130321
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Even at five years old, I could tell that Eloise was haunted by ghosts that shook her core, leaving her dangling and seeking stability in slowly repeating her compulsive routines.
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130300
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130331
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When Beez and I were visiting D.C., Beez saw MDW after many years and said, almost so that MDW could hear him if he wished, “His hair looks like Beethoven’s.”
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130394
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My time glass allocation nears its end.
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130320
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Delightful days spent at the beach. Children building castles; as parents watched waves glistening under the afternoon sunlight. Sanderlings running with beaks down, hoping for a tasty morsel through the ebb and flow of tides. As time went by, briefcases,…
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130365
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Posit butterflies/
as evidence of heavenly design.
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130353
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Somebody left CNN on all night long
until the news cycle flipped, crashed
and burned
in its own ruins
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130361
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I am surprised that you’re not famous already. I remember sitting in your bedroom for hours just watching you while you wrote poetry. I was in awe of you, thinking you were going to be the next Dylan Thomas! Or Bob Dylan. Or Dylan Somebody! And I rememb
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130330
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The last time my old lady threw me out, I decided to go and stay with my brother. I thought, "That's the last place I'll be welcome," and I knew that was true. The drive was calming, which was good, because Steven wouldn't have even let me in if I…
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130343
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He began to chop the powdery substance and separate it into segments.
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130344
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That night, when Nostalgia knocked on my door just before dawn, I had just enough time to catch her coat as she slipped it off and staggered into my apartment.
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130333
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I imaged him at his mother's house, eating chicken and tabouli with her at her round marble table, leaning back and laughing, then reading my “love you” and excusing himself to cry in the bathroom.
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130344
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Charted stars by the dozens /
with a side of frizzle onions /
dawn showers us with glitter.
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130311
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Been running so long
You've been running so long
I bet you can't remember
What you're running from
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130222
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This gravity thing, I reckon, is enamored with me. It loves me so much that it has fettered me with itself.
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130297
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“I fly in my dreams,” his mother said. “It's my privilege.”
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130232
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Then, relieved to have cleared the air, they peacefully returned their way of living.
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1302120
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Your son is six feet tall in the sixth grade. By his sophomore year of high school, he outweighs you by a hundred pounds. He's been offered four football scholarships and one for a sport he's never played. Every morning his mother, your ex ex-wife, makes his breakfast of a…
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130261
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Eva stepped out of the hut she and Javier shared and slogged through the mud toward the coop to fetch fresh eggs for Javier's breakfast. None existed. Javier became angry when he didn't get his eggs. Eva slowed her pace as she neared the door. She knew wh
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130200
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The walls of our shanty were of the standard corrugated rusty metal typical of communities like ours.We did our cooking over a Bunsen burner purloined from the Catholic Boys' School - beans mostly. We did our drinking from bottles of Thunderbird or Old Crow (when…
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130243
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Man, this bearskin rug was a big, awkward sonofabitch on his back....
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130200
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I considered my choices, then asked the question that has brought my wife so much pain over the years. "Which is cheaper?"
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130221
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I tell him if he wants to impress a girl he should learn to cook. He shifts his body. I add, crab cakes work well.
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130243
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Reams of saggy bunting intersect the streets.
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1302128
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My mother should have been a minister or a peace officer. Instead, she was a homemaker who ran the home like an agency. There were certain hard and fast rules.
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130200
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Wait a minute, said Ben. What do we really know?
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130200
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I hate buying shirts. There's no point. You need a shirt, you go to the library.
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130211
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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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130230
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We were careful not to wake the kids & goodbye with a handshake & my skeleton is trapped with your universe inside.
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