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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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99522
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...Yet today, I fear /
ordinary names for fantastic objects: Sex, Love, Mind.
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99521
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later still
wine parties with cucumber
red and rich
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99520
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A large crowd of students began to gather around the base of the building that housed the administrative offices, where my hearing was being held. The meeting room was up on the second floor.
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99476
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They wink at me as if to share/
a cosmic joke whose punch line’s still/
a couple dozen light years out
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99400
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“Well, Danny, what do you want for Christmas?”
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99455
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Written in big letters
Across the back window
Of an old Pontiac:
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994127
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contacts, false eyelashes, strappy open-toed sandals
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99422
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99474
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I was disappointed with love, and like everyone else, stammered out of love
into a place horrified with meaning.
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99400
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I woke up around 6 pm today. As always, mum would wake me up. I have this special bond with my bed and parting with her during my most vulnerable is anathema to my nature. Thrice mum would pull my feet and thrice I would groan hoping she would go…
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99402
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There's a whole pack of us, men minted from hot brass and thumbtacks.
Too tough for sensibility's sake.
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99421
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There: you see a woman who has laid hands on the man she walks with. Tomorrow she will kill herself. Let me speak her life. Born alone, without event. Moon, gibbous. Month, Julius, the tail end. A Leo. Many other signs and wonders seen to have been…
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99400
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Rumiko stood quiet, staring out at Mayumi slowly approaching the shrine. Keiko cast a spell at the structure before them while Emi stood before her sister calling out to her and Mrs. Saito struggled to pull Mayumi away.
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99300
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1. It was never me operating Jack Ketch. I let someone else do it. Never saw his face. He smelt of burning oil.2. I stole from the kids' parents. While they watched the show, I sent my mates round to pick their pockets.3. I gave the arresting officers nightmares. It was…
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99310
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. . . lightening for their jars
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99311
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After our visit to Phoenix and following our inspection of the Grand Canyon, our seminary octet continued its twelve-thousand mile sojourn across the country as a quintet.
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99382
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Skullcap of crabs. Will you record it as it rips clean?
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99351
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If someone told me like people do / that I am a good person / I will never believe them / mostly because I own a mirror / but also because I have lived with myself / for the rest of my life
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993158
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It is imperfect,/
eroded by the optics//
of light, space/
and orbital mechanics.
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99332
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We continue,/Held beyond all surface
Liking it still/And each other/Often surprised:/Like finding garden flowers/No one planted/In summer bloom
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99333
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By February, I had decided,
That you'd tear out my throat every morning
if it meant your favorite song would play from my neck.
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99332
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Understanding those who don't understand us
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99321
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I circled about six times - mesmerized by the sign that said you needed socks. Just passing through it said - As I made my third pass I thought - well, aren't we all.You looked cold. Fragile. And younger than the wrinkles that engulfed your hands, neck…
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99322
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White sneakers cry, dripping from the power lines.
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99211
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Most days you couldn't win; the constant nag from the fact that it was all a game was your only comfort. I was at the unemployment office again. The gal at the counter'd seen me enough to know when the printer was out of ink so she could walk away.
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99221
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My mind fabricated the smell of gunpowder as I pushed down.
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99221
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...the shadowy Samantha sitting up in bed...
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99220
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A minute later, a shadow appeared across the left-hand page of the book.
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99211
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The name he was using this time was Paul Sterling.
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