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I stared out the window, the fog creeped up the Avenues like a spectator.
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A flash in seven chapters.
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“This is where we suck the skin off the beasts,” remarks the General, pointing to a small white tube dangling from the ceiling. “We coat the mouthpiece with mushroom sauce, and as soon as they wrap their stinky bulbous lips around it... VROOOP!"
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The coffins pile up gnawing dust on the glass panes to the rims of my binoculars. Shadowy cracks of stifling proportions, gliding over my eyes a requiem of mahogany. At dawn they heave between the workers’ hands, leave their resting places for a green tra
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Put sunscreen on your / bones.
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To make extra money, my father wrote music reviews for the Calgary Herald, and on Saturday nights, he went to hear the Symphony, or into recital halls to listen to the chamber music that was being performed around the city. He took me, once, to a performa
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The planet will be fine without us as it was/
when the Permian extinction made the goo/
that made the Rockefellers wealthy.
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At five o’clock in the afternoon, at five o’clock / in the afternoon
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"Ha ha!" I said triumphantly, "I've got some left and you don't!"
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On their first meeting, when Hans rolled his wheelchair to her door she would be he first to say that her heart sank. But he was so beautiful and charming and funny and quirky that his disability was soon forgotten.
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Every day hurts, just a little, but not enough
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No snippet to see, here. The piece is so short a snippet would be the whole thing.
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I work in finance. Yes, I have money. Yes, my apartment building has a doorman.
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I'm trying to read a Poetry in Motion poem on there wall of a crowded electric train
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Toting a sawed-off shotgun at the altar
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[TURN-ONS: willingness. TURN-OFFS: rejection.]
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They say ehmand for almond in the San Joaquin Valley.
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proving little more/
than the player’s keyboard dexterity.
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“I was looking for the review of the Alvin Ailey dance company when I noticed something in the sports pages,” says the 300-pound center. “All of a sudden it hit me–I should have been playing football."
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When you return home, one year to the day that you left us, you will wonder if you can do it all over again.
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My Grandma caressed
my sleeping Grandfather’s feet
as we sat in his hospital room after hours.
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If you are a fox then I am also a fox.
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Suzie went on to become an anchorwoman in Los Angeles after college. She had tiny bruises on her feet where she’d shoot heroin since she didn’t want tracks to show on her arms, where they’d ruin the effect of a little black cocktail dress
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Sometimes Seattle's the next thing to heaven. The sky's diamond blue, the sun's a caress; your whole soul can breathe. You know what the shouting's about. But the sun quickly fades to Protestant gray and the gray last a long…
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At work I recommended someone go to the Coca-Cola Museum in Atlanta. I told you about recommending it to someone.
“I always wanted to go back there,” I said.
“You did? You never told me,” you said.
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A recent book reveals that nature documentaries are staged. Shocked by such claims we went on location to discover for ourselves the behind-the-scenes manipulations and more. Director: “You'll spot the wildebeest, freeze, and then charge. Okay? And try to bring…
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Why is the ghost of John Lennon haunting a house in rural Oregon?
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A strange and unexpected shift has occurred.
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You cheat with a stripper--joke I told to your wife. I didn't know that she couldn't take a goof.
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My favorite was a red bowler, a man's hat, which I never dared wear outside my tiny bedroom. My three brothers wanted it too much to take that kind of a risk. They'd poke me with various sharp objects: the serrated edge of the bread knife, the rusted TV
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