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I heard you singing in the bedrooms with me. The down I was fond of, down of your cheek, your thighs light blonde in the light. Out of the dark, sweet bay, were you like a shining rock, shining white, undulating, a thing of heat. I remember you, yes!
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115222
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Pictures of war correspondents from The Tribune, and colonial photographs in a fruit crate
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115131
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This was not a good sign, comforting gestures from strangers were bad omens.
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115123
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I, Seer of the Stars, Cartographer of the Cosmos, / measure my mass, and to whom do I owe this woe...
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115151
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no rule says an imaginary friend has to be a good one
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115110
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When I was a boy and just out of seminary school, I went to a Doors concert and heard Jim Morrison sing his song ‘Soft Parade’ – it changed my life.
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115100
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The glamour of living in the Rebuilt Engine Capital of the World is meaningless to the young boys who roam its crowded streets after school, desperately looking for something to take their minds off their homework.
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115198
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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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115122
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He showed me the knife, said it was his best friend. This knife is older than you, he said. Here, run your finger along its blade. Like this. He showed me how to do it.
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115141
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There is some debate about what kind of twins they are. It’s a fissure between aesthetics and science.
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115122
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When daybreak comes, it falls a pall pást mé, For it descends too soon for woken sight to see A shade of any gladness in its dew's first blisters: All my dreams of daylight are in darkling whispers Of…
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115152
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“Don’t you think you should tie a tourniquet or something?” she asked as I bled profusely from the points where Jesus was wounded during his crucifixion.
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115196
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so here we all are/
deep in debt
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115120
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It was the most prestigious cashier position in the entire state!
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115153
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His eyes begin to glisten like hot green wax pooling around the
wick
of a
pretty little candle.
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115144
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I heard the patron yelling,
“Hey, man! That’s my cappuccino!”
when the young female snatched it and got away.
But the police cornered her a few blocks away,
licking the last bits of foam off her wiley whiskers.
That’s how they knew they had
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115152
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Like the Lady Miss Kier, I believe in the power of love. I believe.
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115172
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I remember one afternoon when Terry and I did it in broad daylight in a nearby park in Lombard, or Glen Ellen. This was after we had broken up already and I was seeing Jolene, I think, before leaving to go out to my writing program at U.C. Irvine. It wa
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115120
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With some of these guys it was like propping a kid on a training-wheel bike, then steering the kid down the street til he figured out what to do next. Tricks would come into the bar. Roanne had a smile for all but the dregs…
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115123
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His smartphone rang. A picture came up of him kissing the blonde.
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115043
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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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115000
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...I made the mistake, thinking the point of a maze was to go in one side and out the other.
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1150136
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I tell people that we leave out food for the creatures to appease the skunk gods.
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1150179
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The cornbread for dressing cools./
The cranberries boil with one cup each/
of sugar and water. The aromas are nice
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115021
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In my dream I am the showy leaf, and you are the stem, and you are the strength. I am the leaf turning colors, my face flushed, the fine hair at my neck, and there is the deep carnal twisting around your stem that sends me floating to the ceiling over a
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115021
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I’ll bet
You got bit by Snake Charmer Boy
And your world fell out from under you
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11501410
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looked briefly – glanced
shouted loudly – yelled
fell down – fell
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115032
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I knew there was something wrong with the sunset when I woke up.
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115043
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destroy the day
rip up the track
jump in the water
eat nothing but bugs
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115055
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My wife said she’d only be gone 10 minutes. 10 minutes. She left me with the 2 boxes we couldn’t fit into the car, and went home to unload the 5 others. She’d be back in 10 minutes.
I got a call after half an hour, she was on her way back to get me. I
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