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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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				Many men ran about, some retreating fully and others digging in along side of me.  Some of them without a shirt or helmet, but all with blood shot eyes.  My brothers and I dug in hard and set our sights on our enemies. 
					
				 
				
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				The lights are dimAnd love's the mood tonight.Enveloped by DarknessPierced by rays of light;That black dressto meis pure delight.Dancing together,Arm in arm,arm over shoulder;I promiseI won't get any bolder.Eyes meet eyesYour lips against mine.My heart is pounding,Sweet… 
					
				 
				
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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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				The rain falls soft after a hard weekend. 
					
				 
				
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				I've been a fan of hagiography—the lives of the saints—since first grade when Claude Dunham and I were asked to represent St. Stephen and St. Sebastian, two martyrs of the early church, in a tableau vivant of bored boys. 
					
				 
				
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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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				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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				“Living rooms,” said the town drunk,  “are incapable of emanating.”  
					
				 
				
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				What would people say about me? He was immoderately adrift. Maybe pathologically narcissistic. A shame he dumped Gina, the best he ever did. In essence, a man-child. 
					
				 
				
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				As clever as clean bed sheets 
					
				 
				
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				When the village slept, the men came knocking.  
					
				 
				
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				Brett Littman said that he had seen a costume drawing of a squid atop a pile of drawings at Dorothea Tanning's archive.  Mr. Littman did not see a costume drawing featuring a squid at her archive. 
					
				 
				
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				How does Bandie feel about snakes? This is my thought. What good is a serpent without venom? 
					
				 
				
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				That’s where her reputation Wild Cat came from. 
					
				 
				
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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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				Lost in the booth of Mr Punch's dreams,Jack Ketch flinches at the imagesflickering across torn curtains.The chirpy projectionistsits in his nest,flinging pictures:A snake, rising from a discarded pair of clown's trousers.A monkey, balancing on a watermelon.A burning sofa.A… 
					
				 
				
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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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				He also looked at the tv with a detachment he sensed was dangerous and the sensation scared him so he ran into the kitchen and felt ashamed alone in the hot room and trembled. 
					
				 
				
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				Hardly a soul could pin him for creating the vehemence that found a streamule to her pen if she wrote in cursive or a fanjet to her keyboard if she typed quickly and satisfyingly in print, employing eight fingers and two thumbs— 
					
				 
				
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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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				The items were not selected. The people were not forced to choose, with tears and a suffocating feeling. 
					
				 
				
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				The family castle, Krivoklat, pronounced something like sheevoklat, 
where my maternal grandmother’s family ran a hotel, 
was founded in 1109 A.D. 
(how long our family ran the hotel business is anybody’s guess, 
taken over by the Nazi’s, then the C 
					
				 
				
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				Made sense then, should have written it down - But I fell back to sleep instead 
					
				 
				
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				His wife left behind a mini-muffin tin, a cookie sheet and a gaudy, scratched green metal tray decorated with an artist’s renderings of New Hampshire tourist spots. 
					
				 
				
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				A Boston company has created a humanoid robot named “Baxter” that performs manufacturing tasks and gets a confused look on its face when it needs something. 
					
				 
				
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