1320 3 3
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. . . we agree that formal standards for identifying literary merit exist and are capable of being discerned, not merely of being ascribed. —but is this itself true?
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132011
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I noticed Sean changed after his grounding. We no longer played night soldiers around the block, no longer biked to the creek to catch crayfish he'd crush with his boots. Sean stopped hunting lizards, stopped charging smaller kids toll to pass…
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132085
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From words to meaning― how complicated it is.
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132042
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whatever weaknesses you displayed//
as empathetic human fellow traveler,/
your command of English survives you,//
on into the last echoes of the human/
once we’re gone.
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132020
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I barely scraped the sleep out of my eyes when I heard the shrill crying from outside the kitchen window, and I recalled one of the many reasons cats can't be trusted. You see, they're evolutionarily wired to imitate the sound of a crying human baby, so when they…
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132010
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kindergarteners
sent to class with
Uzis
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131974
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An eternity in a crashing moment.
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131900
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It is not rough like most grappa, but smooth like good whisky. It removes all edges, freezes the tongue and erases the memory.
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131943
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Nature is perfect... We can never learn that much
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131951
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He also looked at the tv with a detachment he sensed was dangerous and the sensation scared him so he ran into the kitchen and felt ashamed alone in the hot room and trembled.
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131922
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Why do you lie? the old woman repeats when her mouth is not busy filling the waste bin. We sit as far away from her wheedle and wretch as the small waiting room allows. A young woman glares at us through the mental health clinic's safety glass…
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131911
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131900
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His cheeks were extremely pink but the pink was not the shade usually associated with good health, it was the pink of Death.
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131921
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“The minute I stopped wondering about
the meaning of life is when I
finally started enjoying life.”
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131911
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The man was sitting at his makeshift kitchen table. He was forty-five years old. He wore his mortarboard with tassel whenever he left his home. Once inside either a reputable establishment or one generally considered less so, he was sure to take off his m
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131953
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"Do you kiss all of your models?"
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131932
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Airwave candy
lyrical brandy
brass band singer.
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131977
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I saw the shiny dime . . . .
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131900
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" ... that’s a seriously good result for an opening night."
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131943
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131922
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"Which way ought we to go from here," he asked.
She smiled again, "that all depends on where we want to get to." He nodded but didn't laugh so she sighed and strolled around the room, tuning and looking and considering her options.
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131944
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Poems reflect their poets. /
Mine: ugly but loved. /
It is just as well.
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131931
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My first time alone with the women in Saudi Arabia...
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131932
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The young monk rose early to jog,
his appetites trailing like
cats in heat.
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131822
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All the baby monsters are being born on stage.
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131845
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She arranged to have an abortion at a doctor Greene’s office, who practiced out of a converted house on Solano Avenue on the north side of Berkeley. I took her there the day of the procedure. You couldn’t go to a regular hospital to have this kind of thi
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131821
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She said it feels wrong. Too wet, she said. I snickered, she smacked.
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131800
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Creatures of the dark don’t follow daylight savings
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131898
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we’ll never win/
the ongoing battle with dirt.
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131866
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The moon, a cataract cloaked in its charcoal fog, slowly seeps among the trees; night's unguent.Its glance is constant and white,its arc known. I watch its brow of bone with constant wonder.The long, slow funeral of America is taking its time; its…
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