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He said, “It was only after I broke my neck and even like maybe a year later that I really started realizing that I had something to say.”
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Duffy struck an adversarial tone from the outset, offering up a first poem about improper expenses submitted by members of Parliament that ruffled feathers across party lines.
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It began with the waffles, well first there were the potholders, but really the problem was the waffles. I don't even think she knew she was making waffles; much less that she had lost her potholders in the trash can the day before. But nonetheless the real issue here was…
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You think you are a perpetual motion machine, free of thermodynamic law. I’m telling you, you’re wrong.
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"Well, you certainly can't be marrying him then .. "
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If I had slept a little longer, I/
would not have seen this rarity at all.
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So, once, we were all like sitting around the kitchen table, and it was so kind of like an okay sort of day to begin with. We were all like a secret theater of strangers, a living children's secret circle, meeting right in…
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A meaningful conversation Subdued the huge Toys “R” Us question mark Standing sun-bleached and sprinkler-dirtied In our flowerbed On the patio Explode your fanny pack, A clinking most dangerous The Mysterious: Its …
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The woman took a small note card from her purse and wrote on it. She then stood, handed the card to the doctor, and said, “Call me.”
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I was so high on the not knowing, I thought, you will love me for my confusion. And so I allowed myself to reach further inward than either of us felt comfortable. I imagined a delicious vanilla pudding at the core of my exploration, sweet and satisfying enough for me to…
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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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Is this a tenure track position?
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The cab split the thread of oncoming traffic into water barrels and telephone poles.
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decline the proffered hand
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We are nerds. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us bitch.
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The machines of her perception/
tuned themselves to frequencies//
that peeled her skin and fatty tissue
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Side morning lightthrough hydrangea crab, reachand shine off patio ice
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FUN MOVIE TRAILER: 41 members of my family participated in a movie I co-wrote and shot with my wife. Have a look!:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7k2r81iXEHere's the 64 minute film-noir-style…
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“Honorable condominium association members,” the leader begins. “I apologize for not having a PowerPoint slide show tonight, but me and my muchachos travel light.”
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or.
Have you ever contemplated smashing someone's face to The Stooges' Fun House?
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He followed me through the crowds at Grand Central Station.
Wherever I went, there he was,
half my height, dressed in the characteristic gold and maroon garb,
with a paper cup of coffee in his hand.
He must have sensed something about me.
Th
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I will not leave the boat.
The sea has left you.
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Tucker walked the long and lonely stretch of highway in front of him. The loneliness didn't matter; he had his own way of handling that feeling. The walking, however, was wearing away at his mind. How…
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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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The first intimation that something was afoul was when his computer crashed.
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"Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels."--William Carlos WilliamsThere is something beautiful I want to say to you that doesn't seem to make much more sense in a box of clever words like this one. It feels closer to…
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The bison know a lot about Longfellow
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