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You aren’t easy to explain, you Americans.
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The store was closing for good, and so I purchased a book of poems by Cavafy,
that poet of ruins and tombstones, and fragments from disintegration.
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If, for just a crystal moment, you will submit to being a dove...
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he makes his way back / to the ocean, back to the popcorn, back / to the pinball machines
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This is what happened today.
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He shows me how lift the windshield wipers up, clean under them, put them down and I follow him around, watch him slap the sham over the van, pull it away, slap again. I do the same, stop every few minutes like Daddy does, hold it out, twist, wring the sh
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Since the divorce had gone final, the matter settled once and for all, he’d taken to a masochistic bingo of sorts.
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"Make a wish," she whispered.
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The kitchen I snuck out of seventeen years before kept fading to black and white, with this layer of something between me and them.
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A boy stalks three deer across an open field.
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I took 7 Beatle Song Titles and Made 7 Darryl Poems Out of Them"Some musicians heal ethnic groups. Some musicians heal nations. The Beatles healed an entire planet."--Joe Queenan"There was adventure,knowingness,love,and abundant charm.From any angle,they are the…
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Millie was a good woman, Bobby said. A good Christian woman. Well, I said, you can’t hold that against her.
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On the Shore, Tel Aviv, Winter 1974
From the Songs of Crazy Dolores
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If there was a God he was deaf in both ears, blind in both eyes and dumb.
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that day is my barking up and leaves falling down story, but in their elephant slowness it seemed no more than the regular run of the sun slightly disappearing here, and then maybe reappearing there, like a lost color, way over the horizon, or the…
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i am wire i am wiredi am soaking fucking tiredi am sorry i am coldi am so fucking unsoldi am endlessi am statici am past lost time fanatici am wounded i am seethingi am bothered angry leaving.i am metal i am wateri am sister fucking daughteri am nothing i am lazyi am…
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The abandoned body got up and left the room. It was just in time to greet his wife and daughter, who were just coming in the front door.
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His movements were slowed by the metaphysical force of his own passing recollections, and he brushed from his face the silt he'd distrurbed on this forced descent.
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I wanted to watch, for as long as I could, until my innocence, like balloons, disappeared from view.
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1.Oh yes, I'm just kicking around in the leftover moon dust you could say I'm certainly not waiting around for your satellite feed anymore certainly never ever hoping to see if your free falling hair strands still look…
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The barista with the fake rainbow nails and amazing cleft. . . .
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Sometimes he made us punch pillows. "Harder!" the shrink would yell.
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----- Original Message ----- From :< brokengopher@hotmail.com> to: Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:15 PM Subject: The Bob Fosse Dream Dawn, Last night I had this dream that I was going through Bob Fosse's things. NowI don't know…
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The day after falling in love,
I became unmoored from everything familiar.
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In reenactments of the pressing to death of Giles Corey, Walter’s friends stacked pillows onto his chest while he defied his inquisitors.
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Howard needed to finish this time. As his marriage slid further down the sinkhole toward divorce, it was important to him that his affair be successful.
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The man with the truncheon emerged at the monorail car's forward connecting doorway. One moment the space was vacant, a faux metal canvas for the dazzling sunlight streaming through a grime-encrusted window. When next Theseus Harrow looked up from his seat the dark-suited…
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Emi was cheerful and nice towards her classmates. It was like she saw a different person last night. Emi’s pupil-less red eyes frightened her, and the spell that she cast on her, that bump on the head still lingered.
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Maybe we all met, somewhere, in between streets.
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If you don't know what you're getting into maybe you shouldn't take the job. Driving in the rain with the windows open, holding your breath for minutes at a time, sticking your head out to gasp for air, you begin to understand the depravity to which people in poverty…
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