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130855
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right/rite:
Your touch smooth as impulse/
Swaying my mind
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130821
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130822
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Often I want to kiss their lips
Drink in every word they have written
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130821
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The pawnbroker sat behind bulletproof glass at the rear of the display area, a veritable potentate of hope and cash, exchanging expendable items for derisory cash.
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130861
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The bison know a lot about Longfellow
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130751
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Samson was also somewhat in hopes that his son Jason would become engaged in this minor capitalist enterprise and 'turned around' in his life.
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13071310
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I'll see her this fall, a redhead in camo
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130700
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Do you know what it is to crave something? Of course you do. But this was different. This was beyond craving.
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130723
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Now, as we sat on lawn chairs /
on the balcony to watch the meteor shower
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130711
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There is a false dawn,
when night still holds sway, but tempered with promise; anticipation.
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130774
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All this broken glass in the road
Tells the longest story l have ever told
Of how you lost your life and I my love
And how you still go wandering above
I don't know how I can return
To the planet where we used to thrive
Along this broken
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1307178
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What are the odds of August rain in Texas?
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130771
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The new poetry
comes in shining
metal boxes
covered in glass
so you can peer in.
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130700
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He met her at midnight just off the plane and they sized each other with silent growing awareness that no matter what might transpire in distant tomorrows, each served here now as passports to magic and lands far away. On the…
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130711
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He’d've been up there belting out the hymns then bickering with the vicar after.
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130721
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I remembered because the man took us to see the horses. I didn't see something that set off a series of memories. I only saw the stables and the moon sitting pensively below the firmament. I looked at these and there was spaciousness between the moon and the stables and…
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130785
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Mom would dig through one of her music boxes to pick out Saturday morning's cleaning jams. Tattered, battered Payless shoeboxes with lids ripped to shit, filled to capacity with piles of cassettes; greatest hits albums, mostly, or Time Life compilations of mid-to-late…
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1307102
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she lays there
wrapped in his baseball sheets
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130755
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“After your death is confirmed,” I assured him, “a hardcover first edition of your books, will sell for millions at auction in New York.
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130733
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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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130620
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A minute later, a shadow appeared across the left-hand page of the book.
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130674
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—A little blood puts some life into the work, said the old artisan smiling.
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130655
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Meaning is harder to sell, unless it’s an analysis of why there is a Justin Bieber.”
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130696
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" No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."--T.S. EliotI think, okay now I know, the poem's starting to wear off. But I'm alive, at least…
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130600
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The day was yesterday, November 11, 2010. I was home from work, and I pulled my car into the driveway. I stopped short of the garage to get out of the car and get the daily mail. Bills and unwanted coupons for places I didn't go and for items I don't…
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130600
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Their laughter is of a tiny world that knows nothing of taxes or lost loves, or news reports of flag-draped coffins filled with limbs.
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130611
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Here is a not remembering
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130677
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She rubs her head into mine...
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