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In his head the moment would have been different.
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Like the Lady Miss Kier, I believe in the power of love. I believe.
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decline the proffered hand
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124298
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I took Annie to the zoo, and the tigers got out. The little tigers, that is. Cubs.
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in moving cars i am small;
in moving cars i am invisible.
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124281
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He was a Decembrist but he was not / one of the hanged
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124240
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Bipolar. Schizophrenic. Alcoholic.
Addicted. Abused. A reader?
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...cinched the handcuffs.
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124163
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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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I'm mucked now for sure. No one's going to discover my difficult poems in a locked away desk drawer somewhere after the dying fact. I remember how it feels to be knocked out by someone standing next to me in a simple white dress. This…
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Those eyes – they held a lost blue sadness that enveloped her and stopped her mid-movement.
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My name's Barbara and don't call me Barbie if you want to be my friend.
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124121
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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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Lips touch briefly at first
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I’m crouched behind my apartment window, practically going crazy.
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so here we all are/
deep in debt
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I find that I am keeping silent more often. I don't like repeating myself.
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We believe in our love storyin spite of the ferocious efforts ofserial bankerseverywhere to discourage us from looking our damned nearprettiest if we really feel like it. I meangranted they do do their ugly troll dogimpressions of…
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Poets die every day but are seldom in position to put the experience to literary merit.
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You looked innocent and
I
was the epitome of just that …
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today
somewhere by water
this photograph of a woman
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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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“Okay, here is a wild idea. Let's each choose outfits from the second hand store for the other to buy and wear to a bar for a drink..."
Famous second to last words?
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[YOU BETTER BE READY FOR THIS!]
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We all heard the audible skill you had, speaking smoothly of our lives, saying audibly what has driven us, who are huge with night, rising with its origin inside, and clear water running past, beyond, behind, and after us.
To honor, to fear utteranc
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Many colored eyes move slow
between the mirror and my heart,
begging questions.
I offer no explanation.
None suffice to breed either my content or theirs.
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Emma held her arm up to John’s eyes. He looked, nodded. “My burns are on the inside,” he told her. “I’ll never show you.”
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Meeting the past an inevitable outcome (this inside a future fortune cookie). Shame pierces her like a sudden migraine.
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Grace looks at her cell phone. It had been about a week since her Aunt Margaret fell, slipping gracefully down the stairs and pulling her shoulder out as she grabbed the banister, her hand caught in the holiday streamers spiraling down the railing. Every
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