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111500
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VIII. Towards Affinities, Beyond My love, since I saw you last, since before we reached the chamber, I cannot count the quasars which have passed, but there still gleams Time, Like a memory of a lost event unwitnessed, and this illusion Carried…
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111576
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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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111510
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HE DREAMED THAT NIGHT OF A SMALL BLACK CHILD LYING INJURED IN THE STREET, UNABLE TO CRY OUT
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111554
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The renegade states- Virginia, Georgia,/
Texas, and the rest- should have lost their names
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111544
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“Everyone you see is half asleep. And you're on your own, you're in the street.” -John Lennon What we can muster now is a few choice words of humor, but unfortunately that won't show them anything that they haven't seen…
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111500
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“Eat up, little brother” Jack called out from his end of the table. “The food will make your blood dance. It will be eager to mix with Helen’s.”
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111544
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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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111500
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bursting girl there is no moon
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111544
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Then there is Ethelbert's husband whom Ethelbert hasn't met yet, and who has literally weighed in, as if fed up and tired of waiting for a long, in full length, needless, wake up story. That is when Ethelbert asks, "Amy who?" related to a different group
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111542
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the silence of the hardwood floors
blisters into fragments
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1115101
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I've been floating dearadriftI could not see you clearlythrough the tattered, hazy scrim the boundary between usmight as well have been a canyonyou reached for me anda vice tightenedaround my headI wanted to merge with youmy heart wished for abrilliant explosion of limb…
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111510
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I really need to go to the bathroom.
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111565
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and any stain or streak/
is as you will or wish it
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111532
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Elaine Aster paced her office trailing a cloud of smoke of cigarette smoke.
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111543
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the ones that have seen
the other seasons,
let them set up the track
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111542
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—Francesco, I wish you would give up smoking, said Michiko.
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111410
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I had to go to
the lost and fondue.
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111411
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"I see how little kids might find you creepy," she says between red velvet bites...
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1114167
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“Time is inalterable. We can only offer an altered perception of time. And what better way to do that than by offering altered timepieces?
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111400
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Made sense then, should have written it down - But I fell back to sleep instead
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111460
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After too much
I had forgotten how to fly.
There was a small owl with me
on the old dirt road by the wind.
It was a very dark gray,
like an ash.
Its beak moved, it opened and shut,
opened and closed,
but I had also forgotten the language
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111498
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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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111400
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111410
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I think of particles exploding, coming back together like some physics experiment I don’t know the name for. “Large Hadron Collider,” you say. But that’s not what I mean.
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111410
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Two lovers — their genders / faces / social identities / etc. up to the viewer’s imagination (though I caution you, dear reader, not to imagine yourself in this role due to the psychic intensity of the following passages) — writhe against each other
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111433
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Jo was tailored, Amy was frivolous with ribbons and bows, Meg was plain and sensible; and Beth, who was ill and had no costume changes, wore the same nightgown throughout the dress-up session.
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111443
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This grey is going to kill me
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111432
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Ronnie comes home carrying two sacks of groceries, one including a four-pack of Virgil's root beer. This is heavy stuff. It amazes me she is able to carry these items up our steep hill, nearly a mile in distance. I watch the news on our French cable station while she…
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111311
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Traffic, no need to be in a hurry.
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