2009 38 23
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The last time he saw his psychic, she told him you're gonna die within six months.
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200931
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She threw the wine glass on the floor.
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200943
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Rudely awakened, confused and bewildered, he stood stone silent and watched me flee. I barely managed to keep my wits together, didn't and couldn't pretend that I wasn't running out of his bedroom as if my life depended on it. He wouldn't call me a cab,
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20082215
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The Cheshire grinning/
moon cups itself to capture/
Venus should she fall.
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20083514
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AFTER DINNER Another cycle gone, wasted. She stares into her bowl of full-fat ice cream (just half a cup a day, every day, for fertility). Beside her sits her husband, building a sundae. When he's done she reaches over, picks the cherry off the top, and hurls it into the…
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20071516
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When Carlotta left me, I cried / into my soup. I shriveled into / harsh mathematics.
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20075619
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An ice block heart
rushed home to the beat of its melt.
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200796
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In the evidence of broad daylight, in the secrecy of darkness, in drizzling rain that teased the embers, Annabelle worked hard.
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20061211
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What would you do today if you knew your time was up
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2006107
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Some of the notes allude to how the ineluctable modalities of the visible and audible are transformed by the experience of hanging in a transparent egg half out of a B-17 at 10 thousand feet waiting to be spattered like paint.
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200621
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Harry Reed does not want to die in this room, in front of Giselle, who has been his wife for exactly six months, who has slept beside him for twelve months.
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200585
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You may gather from me
the spring of my youth
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20051515
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What happens in heaven stays in heaven.
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20051713
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“Stop!” I shouted. “I want to get off!” The toothy horses showed me the whites of their crazy eyes. “No, no”! they chorused as they whirled around and around and around.
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200594
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I was a gangly 11 years old, a year before the Watergate hearings pre-empted the afternoon cartoons on television, when I discovered an uncle's girlie magazine during routine reconnaissance of my grandmother's hall closet.
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200532
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There’s no obvious difference between two years ago and now but it’s not the moment to contemplate the reason for the racket or why it took so long. Instead, it’s the time to renounce atheism and thank God that the noise has finally finished
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200531
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I arrived at Yaddo, the prestigious artists’ retreat, in the summer of 1941. With America’s “day that will live in infamy” several months away, my own day of infamy began the second morning of my residency.
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20042718
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his dreams are filled / with aprons
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20042620
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He boarded the wrong plane. (Hey, it could happen. Maybe not after 9/11, but certainly before)
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20042012
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...I pray for the animal souls I have taken -- panther, gazelle, hyena, vulture...
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200387
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On a visit, Jesus sees bracelets with WWJD. What does that mean? he asks. What Would Jesus Do? they respond. I wouldn’t wear that, he says.
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200373
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out here the land/speaks in Quaker silence
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200393
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Back when Richard was still skinny and mean, we fought at The Island. He broke a pool stick over my head. I bruised more than his ego. We fought over a woman, as always. We were best friends and that’s what we did.
W
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200296
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Schrödinger did not keep cats about just by accident, and were they keeping an eye on him!
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200273
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She didn't care for the taste. Slightly salty and sweet at the same time, but she let him come in her mouth just the same
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2002143
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Tyler has a Mars bar in his jeans pocket. It’s warm and soft. He tries to insert it.
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200223
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The reaction had started, the hives and respiratory swelling. Maddy huffed for air, each inhalation rattling her throat louder, more hoarse.
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200142
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1.) Please discuss any real-life problems you may have encountered having to do with the concept of “the look” or “the male gaze” as propounded in some of the feminist criticism readings we've done thus far this semester.
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200133
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I got your card in the mail via my ex-wife in Saskatoon. On it you wonder where I am, if I am still writing, and if I have any stories I would send for you to look at because you think I should be published, too.
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199964
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"...if Rosie O'Donnell were to attach a horn to her forehead, she'd move up the ranks as the deadliest creature in the world."
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