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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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I thought
we ended things a long time ago
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Sometimes the universe is a coin flipping so fast it’s hard to see which side is polished and shiny.
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When the compost thaws the past oozes out into the present....
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What was it about the aged and cookies? Here was another one that relished them. Sebastian's grandmother was a specialist. People on the outside thought she was a bird enthusiast. Grandma could be seen refilling the bird feeders at all hours. After the morning…
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It sits there, watching, waiting, multiple cycles over.
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The waitress appears and Fred gives her a big smile and th3 once over. It's no wonder he's had so many women in his life while I've . . . uh . . . read a lot of books.
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We are impressed and cheer them on/
in their struggle against the wild/
and unkempt ravages of nature
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In dreams begin responsibilities--Yeats I'm writing this story to tell you about a mistake, despite the fact that you might find it boring or might consider my writing style onerous or overeager. I begin with…
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When daybreak comes, it falls a pall pást mé, For it descends too soon for woken sight to see A shade of any gladness in its dew's first blisters: All my dreams of daylight are in darkling whispers Of…
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Where I sit here clad in armour by the stars, I do not think of you; those thoughts are over. Beneath the silver here is light enough, To make me ponder by a lighter way. Beyond the bronze óf our sun and the others That haply rein the…
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Let's put a cork in this drain.
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2008Not a bubble burstbut a trust ruptured.The guilty don't survivebut, rather, thrive. 2011The monied are superior.They game the system well.As we work harder, longer,their paper fortunes swell.2017Marie and Louie were monied once.The Romanovs as well.Fast as blades and…
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Like the Lady Miss Kier, I believe in the power of love. I believe.
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Couldn’t
we
just
do
a
quick
ie
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Here comes the bus. It’s going to Tuscany and is full of pronouns: he, she, me, you, it, them, us, we, and you again.
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A ten-ton bus with ill-manners going slow
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I knew there was something wrong with the sunset when I woke up.
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I could have a minor stroke.
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-Looks like you could use some light, Austerlitz, said one of the men in a heavy Russian accent, or perhaps you prefer the dark?
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I find that I am keeping silent more often. I don't like repeating myself.
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer. The rain comes down in sheets.
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The sun was a red beet and it waited low in the sky but I didn't know for what reason. You could look right at it and forget for an instant about tenement buildings and hydro lines, or the dirty city in general. I tied my shoes and got some water…
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Another subject of interest is "furverts"--"individuals who engage in sexual activity while dressed in animal costumes."
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In the tang of winter warm
and summer cool,
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I change things without notice for himto make sure he's ready for the corporate world. It's no longer our goal to watch cartoonswe must now focus on breakfastthenaction figures. "But Daddy," he says. "I likecartoons." "I know it hurts," I say."But…
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A man walks on the moon my mother knew at Purdue.
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youthful pin oaks grant solemn attention to the aluminum gurney
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There’s not enough time because we come back to the things we never learn and forget them.
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