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It is no coincidence that the bossa nova craze coincided with the years in which I achieved my greatest romantic success--first through sixth grades.
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136121
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Gotta ask myself what I’m doing here. What keeps me tied. Caged. What is it?
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136122
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Pictures of war correspondents from The Tribune, and colonial photographs in a fruit crate
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136121
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I must say your script is rather impressive. “You will mesmerize a girl in velvet stained garment…” “The channels of cologne fade from a body, eventually.” The girl carousels home with a raspier…
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136183
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Our lives are lived backward in memory...
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136182
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The sometimes shiver that arrives from awkward silences and the more often cold that comes from midwestern winters.
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136142
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As the silence starts gashing I decide it's the moment to take all my thoughts for a walk; To a sound like a million lightbulbs shutting their fuses I resume my view, Across the sun-strobe streets with blind nightlamps; the safflower sun is lopped on its stalk …
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136065
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“You look so … distinguished.
My!” she said.
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136011
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What I'm going to do is grab this eight-year-old fellow down the block, and declare him a candidate for this Presidential campaign. I'll be his campaign manager, and our whole message will be based on the First Streetlight platform. It's old school but very…
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136040
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I became infamous, in certain circles, for what I achieved, maybe more so for what I did not. I invented a dating service for seniors called “Carbon Dating.” I wrote a book called “What Real Estate Did for Me,” which was very brief and to the point. It
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136032
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In this way a section of a marsh or weapons testing range, a forest or corporate landscape is transported into his living room.
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136020
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Irrational Obligations In honor of National Pi Day Any excuse for a circle, a way to pinch the day. They are calling it something like a celebration only with bigger words and too many numbers to count. We'll have to approximate the amount of joy …
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136010
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I bow my head
and shed the antlers
of past lives
I no longer butt heads
with the universe
but I miss my curse
and can’t do worse
I throw myself in reverse
and rehearse the early scenes
of science and my
full meat diet
that sent
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1360106
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We do not all love each other for the sake of our shared art, apparently.
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136033
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I study the architecture of hunger. I listen to intuitions. I have a map of heaven and a map of hell and they are the same map.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3RAM7-ciU
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135976
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They wink at me as if to share/
a cosmic joke whose punch line’s still/
a couple dozen light years out
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135911
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On this day, a blinding sky
holds ribbed reams of clouds,
staccato against staggering blue.
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135900
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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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135920
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Uncles. Cousins. Enos. No matter how loosely a net is woven, eventually the strands come together again.
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135910
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So what happensTo the VFWIn a global economyAnd the monumentsErected in reverenceAfter the boysWho became menCame back homeTo be fathersThen grandfathersGreat-grandfathersAnd start to fall awayAs the days creep byThat petty paceOf politics as usualFamily DiasporasAnd maybe…
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135933
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I will not leave the boat.
The sea has left you.
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135912
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I was setting up a mattress and a lamp in the balcony of my house because a boy, G., told me he was coming to fuck me.
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135900
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By the time I was born, my parents were already sickened, blackened, blighted people.
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135901
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It begins with his positioning.
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135901
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I felt my words reach out and try to grab him by the heart. They missed.
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When I bumped my head I almost fell to the ground Not so much stars As flashes of lights That looked like sparklers My mother chasing the dog She never catches it The cat sits on a nearby chair It's head moving as the dog does …
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Jo was tailored, Amy was frivolous with ribbons and bows, Meg was plain and sensible; and Beth, who was ill and had no costume changes, wore the same nightgown throughout the dress-up session.
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