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I sulk across the room to feed you,hold your hand, tell you everything will be fine. It is the right time of night,the light from the street falls onto the chairat the perfect angle. I look at you, gray, shimmering, persnickety. Don't move, thisis just the dust, helping me…
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110400
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Cold hurts at first, but you wake up.
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110453
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Most of life, it
turns out,
is pathetic.
Very little is funny.
We have to generate our
own laughter.
Canned laughter
may have to do.
Even if we have to carry
the can around our neck
like a Saint Bernard
or strapped to our
hip
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110360
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As unlikely as it may seem, John Coltrane was in fact a member of the U.S. Navy Band in 1947 in Honolulu.
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110341
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She sat me down naked
on a kitchen chair and fucked me
in the dining room, hovering over me,
then sitting down on top of me
I was upstanding
It was outstanding, raw, and exciting
No children or adults around, or dogs,
cats or birds, no goldf
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110344
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I was at the bend in the road
thinking of Robert Frost
but there was no fork,
there was no yellow wood,
there wasn’t even a horse
to ask me why or what if
There was no decision to be made
just a thousand tourists from Prague
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110322
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Heading for the fields one morning to paint haystacks, Vincent noticed his neighbor’s house ablaze.
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110310
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but at least I wasn't drinking as much anymore.
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110300
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Bloggers venomously characterized Mitt as a "bumper sticker Patriot", the kind of coward who wraps himself up in a flag, puts a bumper sticker on his car, sings the national anthem at the top of his lungs and is the first person to yell out "Freedome Isnt
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11031310
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By the end of my Saturday night shift at the Oyster Bar I look like some kind of filthy nurse
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110221
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Balls excite our interest because we live on a ball. We travel through space on a ball.
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110298
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She'd had every reason to believe he'd be difficult, though he wasn't.
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110297
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It's not that there's nothing new, it's all new. That blue color is not the one you remember, but the one you are experiencing, and at the same time, you bring everything you are, crushing into dust, with you. Green…
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110231
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He consumed the key lime pie, while wearing a lime-green sports bra.
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110211
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In 1609 Ben Jonson was hired to write a work in celebration of the opening of a new shopping mall.
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110200
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....sucking my blood
kind of draws the line.
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110100
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The sexuality comes over us in waves. We need to hold things, someone. The women, the men, side by side, our features blending together. We notice the small curved lines at the corners of the mouth. We notice everything. And the animal is still inside m
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110133
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in a complete rage he lifted his entire golf bag full of clubs over his head and threw them into the creek.
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110185
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I felt that love could
not be paid for or else could
never be paid for enough.
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110120
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but isn't that the case
in most long-term,
committed
relationships?
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1101148
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A.The poem of rational progression is dulling.Make the leap. Go beyond juxtaposition to collision.We like poetry that does double duty, triple duty, quadruple duty. We like poetry that mixes the grit, poetry that has the texture of complexity.Reason asserts an…
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1101114
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There is no need to worry about art. Art in its ideal forms stays safe. Real art resists being the object of attention. It directs your gaze, and it swings in you forever.
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110100
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I know you want to hold me. I won't break. I love you. Your hands - when they caress me are soft and gentle. My words speak only to you. They speak of love and of how we spend…
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110111
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artifacts gone obsolete / miscegenating in suspension
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110142
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I feel I am, in fact,/
the dimmest and least wise/
man on earth.
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110142
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(From Postcards fom a Railway Station (final poem)) No lights shine out tonight high hung in heaven: And the constellations like a dead man fall. No sight of polar eyes, whose sons are seven, And I stand unthinking and beyond it all I own it all a…
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110131
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Watching himself dissolve comes with no sense of meaning. It is simply what it is. He finds that curious.
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