1320 4 4
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I will always remember that
picture of you in your
bright blue summer dress,
with your arms spread out
against a wooden fence in
Central Park.
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132022
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This was why the man on the bicycle was still in time to turn his head to her because he thought it was his sister who lived in California, because she wore the same jacket and in his inattentiveness almost ran over another cyclist.
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132022
|
The boy in the elevator with round glasses, /
who carried a newly-purchased broom, /
was tall and burdened with clothes
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132000
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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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1320108
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132053
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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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132074
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|
132021
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The pawnbroker sat behind bulletproof glass at the rear of the display area, a veritable potentate of hope and cash, exchanging expendable items for derisory cash.
|
132021
|
The Fat Man took a sip of whiskey, then replaced his glass on the table next to his fedora. …
|
132022
|
Let your father stay
through that dinner
when his mistress needed him,
while your mother was on the verge.
|
132010
|
Me leaving is not the confirmation of all your fears. It is not. It's because of them.
|
132000
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When the lore of the land could no longer hold the minds of men, they turned their eyes to places where they expected to find no other gaze.
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131965
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131900
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Slowly, she eased me
into my place
where I melted
into the dark seat
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131952
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lift my love and be lifted
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131921
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Listening too much to the night, with its whistles, bright lights of luminescent bursts like leaves on fire, or the raised ear of a cow in the purple mist, or the curled tail of a pig foraging in the night.
|
131900
|
Ben woke in a black mood. His head was ready to explode and his throat was raw
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131922
|
It didn't matter if they burned or not.
|
131900
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"It all began with a painting," I said. "Mostly blue. Acrylic. Naturalistic in a modern sense. She was stylized but recognizable, and her breasts were exposed. Everyone could see her disordered skirt. The painter was a fan of Herrick.
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131931
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And the urban sprawl doesn’t hesitate. All around me, I taste the aftermath of bricks, dust and dirt, freshly laid concrete slabs.
|
131911
|
He is sleek with hearts and I see a different name etched onto each one.
|
131920
|
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…
|
131944
|
But in 1991 Carmen developed a heroin habit and was forced to sell her powder blue, convertible Mercedes 500SL...
|
131900
|
We walk with our heads down, maybe 15 of us, moving under a sun that has grown to encompass everything. Everything is in hues of orange and red like a bloody eyeball on fire.
|
131800
|
An hour later, we're no closer to the tunnel. In our rental car, we're just two in a school of a thousand fish skimming the edge of the island. Go with the flow, we keep saying to each other. We're just going with the flow. …
|
131800
|
Call it what you may but misfortune, bad luck, disaster, adversity and trials of different calibers can hit us at any time.We are human. We experience the ups and downs of life everyday. Out of a job, lack of money, health insurance and other luxuries that some people…
|
131832
|
and then he began to sing, along with the ghostly villagers
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131842
|
He saw in her something fierce and wild
and gently led her to
his open palm...
|
131800
|
Last week I heard that there is a new horror movie out about Abe Lincoln, with the plot of the film involving the tallest of presidents hunting down vampire bats with his axe while suspending habeas corpus, writing lame speeches about the freedom of man, restoring the…
|
131842
|
Concrete coffeecake
drumbeat gyrate
Andy Rooney ran a meter.
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