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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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130833
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Better move ‘cause I hear them comin’ up the other side.
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130844
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You go out on a night with no moon, when all the stars are flush in the sky, when all of everything, even you, is just a shadow moving softly, and I swear, you can hear it, if you listen hard enough. The music. It’s like it’s coming from under the ground.
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130854
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I am trying very hard to rhyme,
and trying very hard not to.
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130861
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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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130820
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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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130842
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I sense that I may have won a few hearts and minds with my stirring peroration. "Can I get anybody a Republican Party beer koozie to take home?"
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130831
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The whole scene smells like paranoia.
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130853
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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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130854
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hangs inverted and
begins a swirling motion,
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130861
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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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130843
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Reams of saggy bunting intersect the streets.
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1308128
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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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130811
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I blame you for my short temper when I go off the handle when my blood runs cold and I can't think straight I can only react. When I say things I don't mean Even if I do. But I am glad for the fire you started inside of me. That time I…
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130800
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Gibson Park, underneath the grove of trees beside the soccer field. She's buried. But don't say anything yet. Her disappearance will make the news shortly, but it hasn't yet.
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130832
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Lying in the blissful glow of young television.
Idly sleeping, eyes open and ears closed.
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130722
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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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130753
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—Mr. Martinelli, can you explain how you developed your painting technique?
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130711
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I have a fascination with Dickens and London and this was inspired by my next novel.
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130753
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He slathered the glue on my scalp and talked non-stop about Harlem. Electrodes or nodes, I never asked which, would measure something inside my head. I doubt they actually did though, measure anything. I've had the pleasure of having wires glued to my skull before and have…
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130794
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My time glass allocation nears its end.
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130765
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130765
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Posit butterflies/
as evidence of heavenly design.
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130711
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Joseph and his little brother, Kevin, were there again. Kevin was too small to understand what had happened yet. He would usually just go off, running around the statues and playing with the wreaths; the last time they'd visited he climbed a tree and broke one of the…
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130721
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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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130701
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Miranda hugged Madam Mayweather as the girls, except Akane, gathered around them.
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130700
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Wait a minute, said Ben. What do we really know?
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130700
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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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1307122
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full of mad hope / we dash into the street / leap into the fray / and enter splendiferous lists
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130711
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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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