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“Honey, honey.” He tried to take her hand but she pulled away. “This is about the cup. Don't make it about us.”
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I can never tell if he’s drunk or using some sort of substance or if perhaps his brain just doesn’t fire at the pace that we have come to accept as normal.
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When Carlotta left me, I cried / into my soup. I shriveled into / harsh mathematics.
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My name is Wanda McClure and I lived in the foothills of Eastern Kentucky. A small town miles off the interchange, and mostly in the middle of nowhere. I lived in a trailer. I was 52 years old.
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I think that I write toward death and to stave off death and to remember the dead and to address what is dead in me.
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...but still, when she whispers that going out now might put her in the mood later he unties from his mooring and sets them both drifting toward the gin-splintered latitudes
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During fifth grade, I was called /
closeted queer and tall faggot.
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to say that he was
doing fine
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His open door was interpreted by the neighbor as an invitation to all but place a mirror under his nose. She demanded opportunities to fluff his pillows and coerced him into accepting gifts of food, more than he could possibly eat, and sometimes ate with
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Ai picked up the ball and noticed the feathers. Wings unfurled and the head looked up. Staring deep into the bird’s eyes, Ai could have sworn she saw flames.
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“Your mother has problems,” he told the kids.
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Maybelline Jones is my sister, my friend, and I try to tell her the right way to be.
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You don't make money worrying about other people's feelings. I learned that from my father at an early age. He managed rental properties, which I, his daughter, now own. He wanted a son, so I became one.
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Blueberries are like testicles: you have to hold them gently, from underneath.
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They are running the bulls in Pamplona
this afternoon and they have no idea
how to do this and they are
way too old for this
and they want to relive their youth
and run the bulls in Pamplona
They want to drink like Ernest Hemingway
and run
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Pushing his jeans down around his ankles, he knelt, and pressed his moist dipstick against my hole. “Do you always do this on a first date?” he said
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a question that (never) left
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"Isn't it time to remove the nails, and put Jesus to rest once and for all," Mary asks.
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A child in a new world/
by way of the old I won’t remember.
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I’ve never liked birds. There’s something smug about the way they look at us, we prisoners of gravity, something self-congratulatory in their songs. Maybe I’m just projecting my own feelings about being stuck on the ground, attributing attitudes t
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He was entirely guilty of what he had done and wanted that to be acknowledged and understood by the arresting officer.
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The Count was used to boredom but he had reached the point where he was even bored with boredom.
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"And you’ll forgive my sayin’, your Maggie’s in heat, and if ya want to keep her you’re gonna ‘ave to fight. To be sure after this they’ll leave ya alone.”
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Because it seems never to be beginning, always picking up in the middle with it’s long resonant tones, which themselves begin as if they’ve always been. Maybe that’s why we love old, sacred music. And by we I, of course, mean my two-year-old Charlie and m
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“Why have you not voted Mindeo”, Tidi squeaked. “Because there is a third way. If we stay only here, we will eventually be driven out. To attack the erect worms to extend our…
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Flexeril and Hydrocodon... For my back
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The Batman says it's his birthday. I take him at his word.
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when unicorns took to flight / the poles shifted / the world flooded / and Pangaea busted open like calloused palm
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“I don’t see how anybody could do it.”
“I could do it. I could do it because it ought to be done. When a thing needs doing, it’s best to go on and do it.”
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