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My obituary wasn't in the morning paper, so I headed to Target.
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I haven't felt my soul leave my body
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I returned to Minnesota from Montreal a week ago to realize that my sweetheart in Manhattan had hired a Ukrainian escort.
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dealing with an over-aged imaginary friend gone rogue
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I remember some of the tight-fitting garments you wore, your looks seeping through them. The light blonde hairs at your neck and at your middle. Were we really expected to keep our hands off each other? It is foolish to think so. I know what I was think
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Going to Atlanta 6AM Despite all the issues presented by Delta this morning (the rescheduling of my 7am flight at 1am to a flight at 10, giving me a two minute layover time in Detroit, and my eventual own rescheduling of my flight to 6am, and waiting…
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blue plexiglass skateboard is holding the light of a turmeric sun. jacob turns it this way and that and lets it sit on its side atop parking curbs. denim legs canvas feet. looking down sign ridden streets and squinting. sometimes sun showers leak out. cotton…
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Lips touch briefly at first
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I love you, I said. A beautiful smile struggled through the pain. But I love you more.
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Antibiotic ointment didn't help. Maybe Granny medicine would.
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It was an unseasonably warm day in early spring when I first saw the man in the treehouse. The boys had just climbed onto the school bus, the older with shoulders hunched, weighted down with the gross unfairness of his early adolescent life, the younger still scribbling…
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You looked innocent and
I
was the epitome of just that …
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It had been a long night, a hard night. The sky had been filled with blackened clouds, patters of wind snapping and whipping like a pirate's flag hung at full mast. Rain beat…
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In the sides of mountains the rivers rush through and who would stop them as they gain a hold on the world? For silences they keep just then, as if from a larger wisdom and different clock. Pink moons and funny coins with the heads of lions and lambs, and the quarter…
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At first he thought it was a cat she was holding, swathed in a white, fleece blanket
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Once with the lights flickering....
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Those eyes – they held a lost blue sadness that enveloped her and stopped her mid-movement.
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Since I have never found any mention of children that you may have had in your writings, I've been a little reluctant to tell you this story. It may be a touchy subject for you...I don't know. It's a lot of conjecture on my part, but there's one indispu
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They heard Chu’s voice, he was lying ten feet away, his skull opened up.
“Find my change,” was all he was saying. “I left my change around, look for it."
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One day, he decided instead to be-pet them,
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Mulvihill suspected, but could not prove, that the connection to all three murders and the three men was a painting
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In his head the moment would have been different.
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breathe out
somewhere a tree falls
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I dig with no light to guide the aim of my shovel but the stars peeking through the trees which are fuller now then when you went away.
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it's all a bit like the quiet steam
drifting to nowhere off my microwaved
hot coffee in the sunflower mug
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Son, could you please step out of the car?
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or.
Have you ever contemplated smashing someone's face to The Stooges' Fun House?
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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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In its own defense
against what is too concrete
the mind allows a magical thought--
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...cinched the handcuffs.
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