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When they first brought me home, I was their pride and joy. Then, one day, they put me in this wooden box.
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No one believed me when I told them this: I took all of my novels and tossed them into the fire.
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“Can I get apple juice and milk?” “Yes.” “And a chocolate shake?” “Will you finish all that and your food?” “Probably not.” “Still yes. Get whatever you want.” The waitress took the order. Along…
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A pair of snakes contemplates gulping a pair of frogs.
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“Look them straight in the eye, keep your mouth shut unless spoken to, and make no sudden moves.”
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...the bulk of poets are amateurs.
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Chin beards, flannel shirts, Levis
no boots anymore, just loose sandals
their chicks with double triple multiple chins
falling asleep on their own palms
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The tuna fish sandwiches were laid out the way they had always been; they were cut into triangles, with wet paper towels between them. They stayed that way over an hour, untouched, aside from a dimple the size of my cousins finger to test the softness. …
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The next/
may be the lucky one,/
undiscovered all these years.
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Happy is a look we are trying to wear better
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Then there was the time I splurged, hoping a higher-priced phone might keep me from slamming it against the wall.
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for Melissa together today. I like that feeling. I want to pound a piano into the ground just for you. To your warmest heartbeat I raise my glass. Thank you. It doesn't really matter if they think that's a velvety Elvis…
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I awoke sweating like a Mormon at an anti-bigamy conference.
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There is only me and the crooked pavement that leads to your dim tower.
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Like Smart’s cat Jeoffrey,
he’s a mixture of gravity and waggery.
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From the parking lot to the stadiumdown town waiting for the crossinglightthere are a few others in jerseys but not manywe are too early for that.Desert gravel crunching scuffle of canvas shoeskicking granitehop along wobble steps and I turn to seewho's off the…
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In the beginning there was salt.
God licked the salt and said it was
Good. Then there was light.
And then chocolate.
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Eager to please the guards, doctors and preachers
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She awakened and thought at first that the noise coming from the basement was an intruder, that someone was down there and might cause her harm. Then she remembered that the furnace had been erratic lately and had made some strange noises. She drifted off…
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I was still18 years old when the plane landed in South Korea. It was 10AM, Friday. Stepping off the jet way, it could have been any airport in America. But it wasn't. As soon as we got in the airport we were hustled to Customs. Filled out a bunch of forms. Asked…
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A short sonnet for my sweetheart's birthday.
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“Elaine, what's that bee doing?”, asked Jonathan as he slid his reading glasses down and turned his attention from the morning paper to a bee that had landed on the his Nesbitt's Lime soda bottle. The bottle sat on the small, hand-made table in their back…
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“Hey, come on and sit down,” Jake motioned to her.
It was three in the morning and after way too many gins the last thing Melisa wanted to do on New Year’s Eve was to chat with her ex-boyfriend. In fact if she had known he was goin
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Some things are said.
Others, never.
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A thrum of imminent sentience-
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Back then he raced, grinding gears and skimming the edges of death.
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Shame must search the soul, broken, original, with its primitive juices stirred. Moved until now only by the musk, only the stroll you lived with, the worry, the sorrow, the drama – may I never conceal or recover from it!
Yes, I might beg or steal the
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“Out-of-work samurai have a choice,” says Bobby Ito. “They can terrorize local peasants at county fairs, or underbid low-skilled workers for menial jobs.”
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