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Your father's remembrance and memorial would be inappropriate for me to attend. never mind the truth the searing…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3RAM7-ciU
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The gulls/
have somehow mastered the art//
of avoiding the nooses of six-pack/
plastic rings
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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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I had put the child's wagon, which had been red once, back together again. “Honey”, I said, “I found out the garbagemen will pick up concrete this month.” So, I put…
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no rule says an imaginary friend has to be a good one
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...he had that same grin, better than a racy French picture.
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This was how he circumnavigated people, bartering like a viking setting prices on the edge of an ax-blade.
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Soul? Who's got soul? That nothingness that holds us together, between the spaces, in and out of the cracks in our minds and bodies. The soul weighs something, you know. It's been proven. Some guy did a study where he weighed people before and after death, and they weighed…
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the gambling priest stands in the morning fog/red moon hangs in the sky/the army of seven houses marches over the hill
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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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Thérèse Defarge felt the first drop around ten.
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Next morning the thought crosses my mind of snapping Mom’s neck, making sure she’s dead, and then running down to the sea to drown myself.
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. . . I just didn’t think to call the mortician from the phone outside the grocer’s store, how gauche that would have sounded to any passers-by, a call to a mortuary from outside a grocer’s store!
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Lover’s leap to a bank of smooth shale/
Where I sat drinking beer that past summer/watching a group of hard shell Baptists/line up to be saved in it’s muddy waters
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Gringovitch sat on the big leather chair in Olivia’s suite. Before him on a coffee table were the nude sketches he’d made of her earlier that day.
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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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I'm the first child she ever knew that couldn't sing.
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The first intimation that something was afoul was when his computer crashed.
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He woke up four hours later with the second worst headache of his life. He leaned against the car door, his face against the window, and pulled the handle to open the door, but it hit the wall. He pulled himself out of the car by the top of the door frame
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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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Me leaving is not the confirmation of all your fears. It is not. It's because of them.
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in that time people had gone away and i waited in the inside and looked out on balconies. the ending of the dusk was coming and the details of the railings and brick, the tree branches holding purple plums, the stacked railway ties and a thousand other details became…
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-Hey, life! Nobody answers? WTF?
-Ah life! Nobody answers me. Well, what did I expect?
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