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My tongue lashes out like a whip.
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79500
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Silent defenders
of penumbra one
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79555
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It is hunting season
in Jersey today.
They say
“There are too many deer
in Jersey today.”
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79500
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The kid on the floor couldn’t handle it...
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79551
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The irony is that Smart's work of self-abnegation has surpassed that of her erotic master; George Barker is largely forgotten now, while the reputation of Smart's one work of genius seems secure.
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79520
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It is no coincidence that the bossa nova craze coincided with the years in which I achieved my greatest romantic success--first through sixth grades.
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79520
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Jazzy midnights
twisted like DNA
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79454
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79452
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She was having a laugh, but I didn't know what about. We were sitting in a big house that was on the top of a large incline. All these books were scattered around, and the walls and the kitchen, the doors and the quarter round and every other thing, was old and…
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79476
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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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79420
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Hanna was so close to being one of those commercial kids. I mean, the commercial kids all kind of look like her anyway. They’re homecoming queen pretty, and have these dumb smiles like they know they’ll never be sad or poor.
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79411
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I was told, take him round the back and deal with him.
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79430
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If I came home and she had peed, even after I walked her in the morning before I left, I would tighten up my whole face and shoulders, so I wouldn't hit her, and I would grab her by the tags collar, and I would hiss at her what she needed to know, what sh
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79430
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I turn the corner and come face to face with Ed, who's stark naked at the kitchen sink. He chugs a glass of hot tap water from a measuring cup and belches loudly. “Good morning,” he says, as he pisses in the sink. “I drink 6 cups of hot tap…
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79453
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Soft rain, small rain, steady rain—
what the shrubs and tangled
young red oak tree need—
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79411
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I have the idea but cannot find the words
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79421
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A. wants to be an entrepreneur but cannot get with the program.
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79400
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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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79482
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I'm not sure if my heart is breaking Or attacking Like an aged lovesick romantic with a faulty beat, I sense a valve needs replacing But only after the main artery has been sutured and made whole By a seasoned and skilled Midwest surgeon in a…
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79422
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Cleopatra fills her cart with food and cosmetics until it is overflowing. She proceeds out of the store. The clerks stop running products over their scanners and gaze in incredulity, and confusion.
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79400
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My body continues to tread water through its daily existence and each day challenges me to find some sort of grounding. I often wonder who needs taking care of as I find myself sometimes spiraling in a downwards cycle-- not even taking a required break
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79454
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I flipped a large cardboard coin
On one side it said
Abundance
But on the other side it said
Scarcity
I went to the store
And began packing everything I could get
Into my shopping cart
But the things that started spilling over
Onto the
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79363
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Memory is unreliable, of course-/
re-coloring savored scenes-/
paler here, more saturated there-
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79343
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We could act the anthropologist.
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79374
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One day, he decided instead to be-pet them,
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79365
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I’ll take my Christmas carols neat-
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79364
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And no one died achieving aristeia/
in this battle. We have come/
at least some little distance.
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79320
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If you had gotten pregnant our last time, in 1967 (when you lied and told me “I guess I’m finally over you,”) then our son could have been that man you saw with the drooping moustache and his coattails flying in the lobby of the building in Louisville,
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79311
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Like Smart’s cat Jeoffrey,
he’s a mixture of gravity and waggery.
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79310
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Handsome are the houses,effigies in synthetic stucco: prosperity divinedbehind parted walls. Behold the ersatz simplicityof the residential subdivision, contrived construction inline and line and line. …
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