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I'll always remember those warm, weekend twilights on the beach after the frolic of the waves seemed to flatten with the impending dusk, sending the surfers home and, after the bait was spent, sending the surfcasters away, I'd claim a square of sand as my stage,…
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the worm was stabbed where two rivers branch:/who would slay was slain.
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I realize that to say, "I do not believe in God" is footsteps away from "I do not rely on God" and "God left me."
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For years, Nina lived in an apartment with furniture that was silver or clear or metallic, she could see her reflection in every surface. She had an enormous television that took up one entire wall of the small living room. She and Anna and Desmond, Nina's downstairs …
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There are two, though, that stayed for more than just a little while: Marvin and Oscar. Marvin was married and that's all I have to say about that. Oscar wasn't and it seemed as though he wasn't planning on getting married either. What a petty man he was.
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I guess you felt more comfortable holding your Moby Dick
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But you're everywhere, how can I move on? It's so easy for people to say, Get over it, the ‘it' being the smell of your skin, your smile, the taste of your lips, always sweet and salty, like a carnival treat. Remember that neon night when we knew it was over, how we…
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we’ll never win/
the ongoing battle with dirt.
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My toes curled together under the pathetic rag of a bedsheet, the frost creeping in through the two-inch deformity of the window on the left wall. I was tempted to sneak a glance at them to insure that they weren't black, but then decided that I'd…
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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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There is an air of sulfur about you. I cannot tell if / it emanantes from you, or it is the stink of your clothes / from having been in hell for so long.
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It was as if every wrong foisted upon his ancestors stirred up a war in him and he was charged with intending the canon at the living.
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it’s okay, you can come inside me
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We went driving on Sundays.
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Is there anything more emphatic than an ovary?
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We were born here. At the top of the stairs underneath a painting of basset hounds playing croquet. And a hallway closet filled with lost someones. And the police, three times a week, singing nursery rhymes while walking up to our door.
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Opportunity, says Webster, is a, "favorable juncture of circumstances." In my Oxford book of quotations, there are seven famous lines about opportunity. Seven – that’s it! There are twenty-seven regarding failure. Seems it's been easier for the great
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This time is different. The dream doesn’t continue with endless walking.
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-That’s more like it. He released Ben and holstered his gun under his leather jacket.
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Sing your barrel-chest blues, / Hard young man.
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So I threw away all my stuff, because I was tired of it, and because I decided I wanted to revive the Oral Tradition. I figured if it was good enough for our ancestors, it couldn't be all that bad, not that I’m really into history or cultural stagnancy o
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I keep the book when the lessons are done, go through the pages Momma skipped over...
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The boss has a serious problem--he's too nice for his own good.
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You could hear her coming from a long way off
like she kept trying to catch her breath,
like she was getting the fun rattled out of her bones.
But it was laughter, always laughter that kept on
filling up her belly from the inside
and she was
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and still every time I walked up there - so it can't be the cycling - I was nervous I would do it wrong
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she lays there
wrapped in his baseball sheets
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papa wants to dance - the future is so bright - feel good all the time baby
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--small chin, timid mouth, frail nose, weak narrow-set eyes--
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He is sleek with hearts and I see a different name etched onto each one.
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