1356 15 8
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It is imperfect,/
eroded by the optics//
of light, space/
and orbital mechanics.
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135610
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Sick of sight, Ai Kitano constructed glasses by which the wearer was rendered totally blind.
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135630
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On my second trip home from the University of Illinois down state in Urbana, it was during our break between semesters, I remember it was a particularly freezing cold and miserable January (1963.) I had a date with Lynda.
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1356146
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I am the ritual/
banalities of days numbered,/
numberless, and numb.
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135652
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...the completeness of pleasure tantamount to the end of all process...
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135642
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"Aren't you free to say whatever you please?"
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135611
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never have i wanted/ to stay in one place long,/ flight inspired to escape/ existential ennui--
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135620
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Speaking in tongues
untranslatable,
they move in experimental spacesuits,
uneasy in the other's gravity.
(To say nothing of the difficulty of dancing.)
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135600
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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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135500
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Perhaps she’s also a do-gooder. One of those socially conscious, change-the-world type girls complete with a never ending supply of life’s own contagious enthusiasm.
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1355137
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I find Vermeer and Bach and feel/
for a moment a shower of my own world’s/
prismatics.
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135554
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She laughed as she stuck up the word flaccid,
it kept falling down
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135501
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Ben gagged after shot-gunning the scotch. He hiccupped and it came back up through his nose. He grabbed a napkin and caught most of a shot and a half of Whyte & MacKay as it poured out his nose.
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1355157
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...he had that same grin, better than a racy French picture.
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135511
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135543
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-- as if I had / only rung the rusted bell --
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135530
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Most people don't understand what it's like being a pop idol. I am not most people. I am Tincture Shunt, and here I present you with my trajectory to stardom, in case you want to copy it for your own personal use. Unfortunately (for…
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135555
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Luke and Diane sat at a round white table looking around the room. There were clusters of people forming an archipelago of cordial exchange and small talk. All but a few were strangers, friends and family of his sister-in-law Mary, now a widow, though the word sounded…
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135522
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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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135564
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It was an autumn day, late in the afternoon, a Tuesday, when the last murderer died. There was no official announcement. Indeed, she and her crime had been forgotten. Pancreatitis, her cause of death. Quite treatable, the cancer. Nothing could be done for the gene that…
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1355105
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The light they love to hate so much is always pulsating within each life; the unbelievable color sword of what happens next when any two people find each other in their hearts and all pretense is somehow gone, for at…
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135500
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The Gringovitch family was gathered in the lobby of the hotel. The boys sat on the floor using their packs as back supports. Francesca Gringovitch sat on a chair with the remaining luggage in front of her.
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135500
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“Because the day I fucked you I caught an infection and now I have it for life.”
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135521
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Ever the chance we were given, with luck always, fate. At least we engendered the song and the drink. Having sailed from the goddess of sensual love, having the best throw that beauty allowed, now you can call it will, though some will call it hate.
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135500
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when I said good morning I meant
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135522
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Let your father stay
through that dinner
when his mistress needed him,
while your mother was on the verge.
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135500
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135432
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and then he began to sing, along with the ghostly villagers
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135400
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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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