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A vanishing of something we never got to see. All we've been left with are impressions, imaginings
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To politicians who think things will stop,
When they finally let slip and drop -
this government of ours we call
The ultimate power of them all.
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Her friend had been drunk, and sometimes after two or three quarts of beer, he'd tell people that he was Jewish.
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Nephew Joe, my old brother's son, came to fix our pipes. Strapping, strapless, hairless, tanned, he clinked with gold. He came out to us over the pipes... drip drip...I just wanted them fixed pronto. He took precious time. He cried...drip drip...I wanted him to stop. My…
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My supper consisted of no cheese
My marriage consisted of no violin
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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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It makes me feel like a dirty old man: adorning Celia,
Making an offering of my blue dresses, adorning Celia.
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bullets in flight make sharp, snapping noises.
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i waited for the moon last night for hoursfell asleep with the record player on and dreamedof rain running downgutters of sea glass housesthe sun nudged me awakeand she served me toasthe's not serious,she saidhe's half baked,full of…
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First Fall in Love by Darryl PriceWhat the black lives matter peopleare saying is black lives matter, too.Just as much. What blue meanies aspeople are saying is blue mattersmore. I don't believe that and neithershould you. What the green lives matterpeople are saying is we…
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An eternity in a crashing moment.
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It's been almost two years since I bought it.
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The Black night reached under his shiny silk jacket
And touched the steamy leather of his holster.
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...the woman of the sun, twelve stars around her head, the moon at her feet.
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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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destroy the day
rip up the track
jump in the water
eat nothing but bugs
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My parrot Poe freezes when a crow soars outside the window the same way I do when you approach my door. You come knocking late at night. What do you want this time? I yell. To come in you say, please. Go the fuck away, I respond but you keep…
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I wonder if it was my voice or the words I was almost but not quite saying, cautious words, the kind that wander deep inside one's mind ...
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I love the notion of uncertainty-/
which seems inherent/
at the level of particles-
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His house incubates memories. As he sleeps, they hatch.His house is neither here nor there. It occupies a space between watchfulness and insomnia. Grey birds nest on its roof.His house is a refuge from everything except himself. The floor, walls, roof are fat with him.…
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far beyond the far beyond
sparkles the stars like sparkles
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You have more names
Than a Spanish grandee. Your lives
I’m too envious to count.
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the odd stone stands/taller than trees/it protrudes from the young forest/an old mecca but smooth
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removing oneself sometimes occurs only on the page
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No one would have picked me out of a crowd as the morbid one, but it was true that thoughts of easy exits floated through my consciousness regularly.
I did my research—the easy methods, painless, guaranteed methods—and felt prepared to do, well, w
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The second time I watched him, I helped him carry her to the woods. [100 words].
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Marcia
Get a load of
This
I got two pictures
Of food
Of food
Marcia
You're gonna
Love it
Look at this
I got one
Of just the salt and
Pepper shaker
God
You're gonna
Love this
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