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We all wish to partake in great events.
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121332
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The last of the Kazan Tatar Khans. Each dome represents a severed head.
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121300
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Watching the surroundings, the school proceeded on with no threat in sight. The Circle of Four entered inside Azure’s classroom where she sat next to a window.
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121310
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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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one day the words will form an order, one day the words will make a rhyme, one day the words will make a meaning
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1213129
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The gulls/
have somehow mastered the art//
of avoiding the nooses of six-pack/
plastic rings
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121200
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I sold my ego to pay a parking ticket. And then I wrote 77 words about mental health.
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121242
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Concrete coffeecake
drumbeat gyrate
Andy Rooney ran a meter.
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1212159
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Other pathways are more satisfactory. They are more closely attuned to music of the other world. Even so, the heat eventually burns them up.
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121200
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“This horrible street. I hate this neighborhood,” she cursed.
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121222
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The boy in the elevator with round glasses, /
who carried a newly-purchased broom, /
was tall and burdened with clothes
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121243
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Darkness dangles like bats in a mouth of cabbage. I call this necromancy. But it doesn’t work. No dead people appear. Just Bob Dylan on a horse.
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We construct what we want, from what has failed in the past. We thought this worked. The picture was buzzing for me and I tried to hold on. I went blindly forward.
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1212128
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He switched off the light. His wife was breathing softly. At her bedside he told her of her friends the roses, of the pretty carnation brooch he had pinned on her silk scarf, of her coquettish hat which fitted her so well. Small, simple and bright memories the heavy night…
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121200
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Coupling—why did I say that? Who says that? I mean the clacking together of bones, the willful splitting of fine and tender skin.
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121222
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The boss has a serious problem--he's too nice for his own good.
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121211
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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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121211
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I drink the funeral in a dream. I give satisfaction in voice overs.
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“You're bendable,” he said, and then there was this silence as we looked into the space in front of us. I understood what he meant right off and thought it a gift to speak to someone that did not get the words exactly right, but in not doing so, got…
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12111310
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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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121100
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gods aren’t going to help you son
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“Good to see you, old man,” Greg said. He was like that, an investment banker, a latter-day Tom Buchanan without the polo ponies, self-consciously fusty.
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I see you’re wearing your tablecloth top again
your tablecloth dress to impress me
and distress me with all your tablecloth positions
for your luncheons on the grass
with all your famous friends
who found you on your ass
Yes we can
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121198
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After you lost sight in your left eye, mom made me go on the road with you that last summer to help you see.
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121100
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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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121166
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With the sudden thrust//
of April green, we can forget/
our drought continues.
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121171
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The new poetry
comes in shining
metal boxes
covered in glass
so you can peer in.
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121133
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Once I get through this I'm going to start: daily yoga stretches; walking the dog all the way to the waterfall every morning; tossing out, unread, Saturday's ads so I don't think about going into Walmart to buy Stack-A-Shelves (assembly required). Hey, even…
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