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From words to meaning― how complicated it is.
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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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An eternity in a crashing moment.
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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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It's been almost two years since I bought it.
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I do not jerk up to sirens birds doorbell shouts hello hello through the letterbox hello
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Our revolutionaries
Have evolved into gamekeepers
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“Omaha is filled with fine clothing stores for men,” he says, “all of them doing very well. Whereas Minneapolis is a different story altogether.” I am trying to sleep in seat 26C. 26B is occupied by Mildred who has already introduced herself,…
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My dad / always had a fondness for Raleigh’s kind of loss
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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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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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The Black night reached under his shiny silk jacket
And touched the steamy leather of his holster.
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removing oneself sometimes occurs only on the page
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My first time alone with the women in Saudi Arabia...
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I was a coward and didn’t want to get killed like Heimley. Heimley was a nut at high school. I saw him myself one night put his hand right through the windshield of this car he was working on, along with a monkey wrench. Sure, he was drunk, but th
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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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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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Sometimes the dirt just stays dirt
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The second time I watched him, I helped him carry her to the woods. [100 words].
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“You look so … distinguished.
My!” she said.
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My supper consisted of no cheese
My marriage consisted of no violin
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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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Someone desperately dials a number.
Iris, draped tight.
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See the hair
Know the hair
Remove the hair
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You have more names
Than a Spanish grandee. Your lives
I’m too envious to count.
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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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Dead drunks sing Christmas/
songs-
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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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