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Is it my imagination, or is her chair afraid of her?
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--small chin, timid mouth, frail nose, weak narrow-set eyes--
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Better move ‘cause I hear them comin’ up the other side.
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A hot summer night walks into a bar and orders a drink.
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The goal is to perform along with Jason Lee Norman--who is touring with his book of very short stories called Americas--a selection from my own collection called Country Without a Name. The symmetry excites me.
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an almost perfectly symmetrical/
Cheshire grin of a moon tonight/
above the iced roof of the house
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I whispered, “I love you”
and then, “Goodbye”
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Airwave candy
lyrical brandy
brass band singer.
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you can reach me at
hashtag this!
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No, your clever costume won’t protect you.
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“You know, Miss Viv, I love looking at the sun when it’s almost gone. It kinda looks like an orange and apple squished together. Those are the colors. And the puffy clouds under it look like a bed. It’s going to sleep."
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Sometimes the dirt just stays dirt
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The river was frigid. Branches, empty cans, and used condoms float past me.I lost my jacket when I became snagged on a tree branch. My shoes are gone. My skin is blue-grey, as are my lips and fingernails. I've been face-down in this river for two…
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and springs its ready-made claws into action and takes a soppy chance that things will probably go its feline way today. But you, my friend, must you always throw the testing switch to high voltage on me? Yeah I get that the history teachers…
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An hour later, we're no closer to the tunnel. In our rental car, we're just two in a school of a thousand fish skimming the edge of the island. Go with the flow, we keep saying to each other. We're just going with the flow. …
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Welcome back to our ongoing coverage of what we mean when we say "Tsunami: A Very Bad Thing."
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It's been almost two years since I bought it.
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arrogant, sullen,/
supple and ambiguous,//
English seems the ideal tongue
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If you had a choice, be a poet or not,
I’d suggest prose for the lines that you jot.
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A decade, at minimum, was how long their notes had transpired.Still, they all knew how it would end.
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If you knew everything, you would not be able to sit on tropical balconies at 4:09 A.M., discovering a book and then the world for the first time If you were part of the spiritual set, and could astral travel far and wide, but neglected to open the door…
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I had this dream. We were living together, and we were in bed asleep when strange, enormous cats began crowding around our windows and meowing. They made awful scratching and scraping noises at the windows, trying to come in. But I couldn’t wake you up.
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Border town meant one thing; we were caught up real good in the middle of something preternaturally dangerous; and understanding was at the very least a hundred miles or so away in either direction. All I…
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you knew the lightbent it in your favorleapt confidentlyacross heartscheeks and shouldersrouged chromaticincandescent pretendingperhaps the dark had no claimover your lonely clumsy soul© 2013 - Rene
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I don’t see the problem. In the country I come from, language is the best part of the game.
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We do not all love each other for the sake of our shared art, apparently.
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All the baby monsters are being born on stage.
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