944 2 2
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Can you remember now? How we could each disappear completely, connected despite fault lines. . . .
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94411
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A man stared out a window,
only to see a passing train.
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94400
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What happens when you accidentally run into your lover's daughter on a plane.
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94400
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It was just after lunch when they found the box.
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943124
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Strauss does all the stirring at the start./
The rest is all murk and meander
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94310
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They’re friends, him and Sissy and Raul, you know, and live upstairs from Asa and he went up there. He kept texting me saying, B here all night, follow u 2 airport. Yelled down through the floor. Real crazy shit.
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94384
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just want to write a music note
rap my hands all over my throat
jump into the city to stay afloat
gotta build me a damn big boat
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94320
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The crow in darkness;visual palpitationsunder the street lamp. In the dark morningmy car disrupts the still cold;a blister on earth.Never mind the cat.The Japanese Peace Lillywill steal your last breath.The blacktop highway;a rough scab to cover thedeep man-cut…
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94351
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the Coke made his butt leak blood
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94332
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I would have given your son to you. I would have had him in a heartbeat. And I would have showed him your inner beauty, even though you were absent. I would have hidden nothing from his nature. I would have given him everything and anything he needed, s
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94233
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I check the NPR news app. The story about the shooting in Pittsburg has already been pushed off the homepage. There is an article about yellow fever in the 14th century, a potential ceasefire in Yemen, players protesting the national anthem, a plane crash
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94222
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The man and the woman ate dinner together as they did most nights. It had become a habit over the years, back when they had children. Their lives were busy yet they always found time for one…
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94251
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I awoke sweating like a Mormon at an anti-bigamy conference.
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94200
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94221
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There it it again, that noise. That low hum that I know so well now, spinning, gaining momentum in my head, like a cyclist in a velodrome, until its steadiness and roundness becomes sharp, painful, cutting like glass.
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942119
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It’ll all make sense when you're sitting on an éclair chaise longue by the morning pool of coffee.
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94200
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Silent defenders
of penumbra one
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94273
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You had that quietness by nature (unusual in men) that I was attracted to. You were like some body of water, wide and more spiritual than anyone I knew. You could have taken me with you when you flew. I know you were more like a bird than any of the oth
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94200
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We entertained each other and stuck our fingers in each others’ cakes and pies and pulled them out licking them while looking at each other. I was light with youth in a white summer dress, swinging my shoe as it dangled off the tip of my toes, rubbing m
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942169
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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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94285
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The next/
may be the lucky one,/
undiscovered all these years.
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94210
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The north street was always a mean part of Port Neches. Too far up for oil company patrols ...
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942119
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I kept my seat. Passengers packed in the aisle weren't moving and until they were, neither was I.
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94200
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94144
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Hanging out at the
Imaginary Friends Café
with all my imaginary friends,
poets, itinerant musicians, etc.
Writing close to nothing.
Can’t finish a thought,
so I’m composing a book called
“Not Quite Haiku,”
which is unfini
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94120
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I toyed with the idea of suicide, then quickly cast it off. Death wouldn’t be interesting. Liberating, perhaps, but not interesting. I hadn’t yet lived enough to die.
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94140
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Julie had a thousand freckles the
color of mud.
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94110
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Some things are said.
Others, never.
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94144
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"Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow".. --D. H. Lawrence It's not about the lasso. That's so easily dangerous,…
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94176
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We go to the spa on my wife’s day off and get a manipedi. A swarm of little women pounces and works on our fingers and toes.
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