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In the afternoon, there was a certain time when the sunlight spilled through the windows in the common room and made everything look all bright and fresh and optimistic. If you ignored the patients and doctors milling about and…
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I’ll take my Christmas carols neat-
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I came out of the Quick Stop and found her in the back seat of my ten-year-old Camry. I don’t know who she is, or why she chose my car. I do know she’s having a baby any minute now.
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We made a plan to see each other to chat more and so we did. I went to his little house in the neighboring town and walked in to a kind of time warp. It was a large living room, made so by it's emptiness. It was stark in the vastness it seemed, but dark.
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She was, they said, everyman’s armful;
Bedding down with her was most likely harmful.
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No one has the right/
to script how someone dies.
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Unless we see it, probe it,
Name it, star by star, and feel
This awful, tenuous gratitude.
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“What if every cloud you saw carried a bit of hope?” she said to the window, looking out at a rolling storm. There's something peaceful about stormy weather when you're inside. Stormy weather. It almost sounds quaint. “Well?” she said,…
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—Francesco, I wish you would give up smoking, said Michiko.
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We used to have a saying: steal an old lady’s pocketbook and you’ll go to jail, steal her pension and you’ll go to the Ritz.
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I wanted those jelly rolls so bad I could scream
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Air. But fire against the air. An interruption in the blue sky otherwise. Painted without a spread blemish or problem. Now there is a problem. I am roused from sleep. Sister says, Look. Look. Jacob wake up. What? A truck is on fire. What is? A…
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The coffee filter rustles like the Pages of your notebook, which Only tires you even more. Make your drink strong to Make up for the lack of resolve In your shoulders, and Your weak promises. The familiar sound of percolation And you reach the…
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Italian authorities seized $1.9 billion in "green" investments made by La Cosa Nostra to launder money. Reuters
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Rains came again and wore away at their flesh, revealing bone as white and sharp as sharks’ teeth.
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When he was 24 he ran away with a girl, forgot about his little office job in the city, went with her to the mountains, just the two of them, to live out a life of romance that a chalk box like the metropolis can’t give you—
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“Tell me how sad they are.”
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A stroll along the golf course rim reveals Polo-logoed litter. Could this be what they mean by white trash?
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By the time the third car disappeared, Bud had noticed sudden lulls in the breeze, rain microbursts from otherwise blue skies, cold humid calms that trailed him around the junk.
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In the tang of winter warm
and summer cool,
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The scarred heart pumps its viscous blood.
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You fall with your eyes closed because otherwise you wouldn't dare.
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He who is well hydrated, won't sweat you
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Waves like lovers gather and crest, crash into
White uncertainty.
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Everyone wants to feel like the world has lined up against them and any achievement they have been able to attain was done despite the best efforts of everyone who isn't them. That's a given.
But there is one group of people who seem to have a point.
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She went for the typewriter first.
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By the basement washtubs, I watched him skin a squirrel:
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so much of what we know with certainty is amazingly uncertain
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A man walks up and faces
this new red brick wall
The bricks are all perfect
as you might expect in a dream
And the cement is tuck-pointed
without a dribble, anywhere
He looks at the wall
and puts his head through it
And when he pulls h
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