1178 5 4
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117841
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“Namaste,” I say as I hand the guy his ticket. “The divinity within me salutes the divinity within you. Have a nice freaking day.”
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117811
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Oriana, much as she wanted to, did not sleep with Francesco, propriety ruled.
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117853
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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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117811
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Marvin and first had met four years ago on an iron train peeling through the seething Asian night on rails between Bangkok and Chiang Mai city...
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117823
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Our friend, M. Dieu-Juste partnered in a used car business with a Vietnamese mechanic, Mr. Tran. Cars however, were not their only venture.
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117843
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The old hate the young. Robe exposed monks do not Hate mosquitoes. It is one. It is one hand. It is on. Mountains don't hate sky. The rich hate the poor. The poor hate the rich. The parade of scholars hate the …
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117800
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We're all just meat and atoms who can no more sense into the great beyond than a horse can fly a plane.
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117811
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how many lighted days remain
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117893
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How many extinctions can we claim?/
Is someone keeping score?/
Somebody needs to keep the score
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117821
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one will become a tobacco king;
another will steal copper plumbing on moonlessnights.
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117820
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Loss and awakening are irrevocable. Love and grief are one.
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117775
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117797
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We’re heading to a
Poetry reading when my wife
Says “You owe me one”
Coming back from the
Poetry reading, my wife says
“You owe me, big time”
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117700
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117743
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A novel is an idea that has
Survived many severe beatings
While a poem is a homely thing that was
Never even asked to the dance
Art Speak, however, is the art of
Systematically overstating and
Re-inventing the Obvious to the point of
Distr
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1177103
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The memory fades so quickly, It makes me wonder if it ever really happened? Then I have to create something new from scratch to fill the space Yeah, there are patterns, and sudden movements that pass for recollections, but couldn't they as…
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117794
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Hilda Raz lost a daughter. Her son gained a persona, backed by biological components. I was impressed by his male-pattern baldness. A biological genius. And yet, I was reduced and in the elevator mentioned crying about it.
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117731
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He had to
get over
the short bridge
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117742
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I remember you were on top of us freely, and we were starry with enjoyment. You turned to the beautiful youth because we were light, because we were so full of life
that our skin alone could not seem to contain us.
We were burning, burning on all
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117675
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117611
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Sometimes your Monday morning answer to the inevitable questions don't have to be so mundane and repetitive. And sometimes they do. No one gives a shit anyway.
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117600
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When I was 14 I accidentally heard a woman saying behind my back
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117632
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Palinode: A poem written to retract something said in a prior poem.
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117643
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When you finally arrive,
when you are bounced from Bingo
for calling out too many false Bingos,
may the mothers be there
to lift the children
off your soul.
May you see the fiery red word Psychic
above the doorway
underneath the green
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117644
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The world hasn't ended. Your part in it is still ongoing. The going on world hasn't winked out. Every possibility is still out there. In there, out there, it doesn't matter where you are. The here and now claims you for its only tribe. They only want someone to tell them…
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117600
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She had no eyes that I could see. Just a pair of lips; they looked soft
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117632
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He doesn't tell her that he is married, and that his five year old daughter who is living at your house has a mother back in that same city
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117602
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There's a whole pack of us, men minted from hot brass and thumbtacks.
Too tough for sensibility's sake.
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117683
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