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And her life runs like clockwork. And the kids wouldn’t get to school without her, and the paychecks wouldn’t arrive and the taxes wouldn’t get paid. And she listens to religion and country and God telling her how to run her life, what to do and when. B
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136511
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. . . I wanted to put Tiffany out of her misery and mine and shove her in front of the next large vehicle hurtling down the drive-through lane . . . .
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136521
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When I was in high school, we had a prom. The juniors were paired with the seniors; and when I was a senior, I recall meeting my date for the first time. You can imagine she was not enthralled.
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136521
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I am beleaguered by duplicity.
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136593
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Our trouble decided when the CUNY PhD student, a poet, cried out, “Racination!” during discussion of my poem.
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136554
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I suspect I’ll make the right decision.
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136511
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papa wants to dance - the future is so bright - feel good all the time baby
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136542
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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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136501
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“Hi, I'm Mike, and I don't wanna work ... Wanna play foos?”
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136431
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Stone-gathering became my job
by default. Digging the foundation, trundling the loaded wheelbarrow away from the site, yours.
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136400
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Her eyes creaked open in the misty morning sun seeping through my dusty window. From her facial expression, I could tell she thought I was watching her sleep, but really I had just woken up and coincidentally looked over at the exact moment she did. I decided against …
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1364128
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My name's Barbara and don't call me Barbie if you want to be my friend.
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136455
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Seems I was in the wrong place, wrong time.
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136440
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I've been chasing something that cannot be caught.
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136499
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Here’s an obvious fact: I live in Germany, but don’t speak much German. Okay, I speak very little German. Truth be told, hardly any.
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136441
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Sharon called me “Wolfie” (very sweet!) and I distinctly heard her gasp, “Jesus!” when I entered her the first time on my dad’s ski boat, while you and Rick DeMille came swimming up behind us, yelling out my name: “Pharaoh … Pharaoh.” We
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136442
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you can reach me at
hashtag this!
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136400
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They strung him up, stowed on the balcony, and beat him with sticks, and beat him with rocks, and bent his muscles, …
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136465
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we were all meant to do with our love? What I can think of is to ask the question again. I suppose there are others more willing to supply you with a proper answer, but none seem real to me. These words are only stones,meant to skip across the…
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136420
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During the night and in the fog of halfsleep Ben shifted and felt the weight of Miranda gone from him, the bed empty. In the quiet of the house he thought he heard a footstep and the soft shutting of a door, and as his eyes searched the dark he…
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136361
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A Satire We are the Social Justice soldiers, we parrot platitudes and lies, And expect you all to worship the same things we idolise. We ignore Islamic extremism and domestic terrorism too, Because we are Cultural Relativists whose brains are up our…
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136343
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Even the fruit from the nearby orchard (which I, in part, nourish) batters my stone to rot.
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136300
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Something like: Answers to questions you might not yet have?
[Answers we will try hard not to provide]
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136323
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The weather, mid-sixties now,
will take its toll on
this singular voice.
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1363108
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Once with the lights flickering....
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136311
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In my dreams, I feel my dreams fade away.
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136321
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summon the chamois to hyperspace
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136333
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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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1363111
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I imagined cool, wet clay oozing between my fingers when I'd squeeze a tight fistful.
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What are the odds of August rain in Texas?
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