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all paths converge on Africa/
and Eden, and the fall from animal grace
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207795
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Last night in the shower, I felt only vaguely aware that something in me had changed.
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207763
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Danny said that you like him now. He smiled like it was the best news that he could give me, but his eyes dared me. …
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20771914
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I'm sitting here listening to Nebraska and it's / breaking my heart
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2077119
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I’ve had my face talked off by those types (and I’m sure you’ve met a few) who need to say and hear “special” words, and they go "unh-hunh, unh-hunh, o yeah, o yeah, unh hunh."
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207600
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They got out wearing their crisp brown Army jackets and khaki pants; she saw the cross on the lapel of the officer's shirt and just knew. These men brought sad news from faraway places.
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207683
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Morning claims me from sleep before I can say noYou wake up instantly from your alarm clock's ringYou are bright, enthusiastic, ready to cooperateIt will be a good dayYou shower, dress and I prepare your breakfastEggs, soft, toast two ways, one with salmon cream cheese,One…
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207673
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Everyone runs to the plane but me. I get the last seat (middle of 5), crush men’s bags on my way. I’m white & female. They glare.
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2076216
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The "Many Worlds" theory, applied.
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207686
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no one else comes in my back door but you
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2075104
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Ma tells me not to put a tampon between my legs. For fear of cotton fornication.
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2075178
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I kiss his sunburned nose, so nice under the beach house. We hear the shower of palm leaves like wings getting ready. We talk about a time we'll no longer know each other, when he'll be sad in a bar in another state, slipping and sliding and petting lost dogs in the parking…
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207585
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I could love them all, your people, /
Learn their differences, speak their tongues, /
When there is no one there to hold you /
But me, my arms would be wide enough /
To hold armies of your need. Do not forget.
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20752011
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...he thought often of the rollicking waves, of being pulled under, of being weightless and senseless...
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207563
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"Hattie? What are you doing?" Bosley asked, the quaver in his voice an indication of an impending erection.
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20752012
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I drove to you in April / and you loved me all through Illinois
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207498
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Turns out it was you. But. You made it into the latest dumping ground in spite of their voted insults. In spite of being told you weren't even going to be around to be danced with. The loneliest girl now looks perfectly trim and trendy to all eyes.…
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2074169
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Sometimes you can't sleep.
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2074189
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In my innocence and young mind, I thought that kiss would mean that someday we would get married
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207322
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“You wouldn't believe it.” Peter leaned in to whisper. “Don’t let the Kodak moment with the wife and kids fool you. That guy is totally gay.”
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207322
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Sloe Gin Fizz is pink
Bombay Gin comes in blue
I’m sitting here at Emerald’s
And all I can think of is –
you.
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207311
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They sit, they create, they watch.
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207340
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Remember me? I am the large, dented acorn you threw at your brother, Ken, during the huge acorn war of 1969. You were thirteen. He was eleven. And the entire neighborhood was in your backyard that day. Steve, Jack, Jerry, Tom, Dan, Jeff, Drew. A bunch of the kids…
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20733020
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Toting a sawed-off shotgun at the altar
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207265
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We didn't wear shoes in the summer, except for Sunday school and church. The soles of our feet were black and tough as shoe leather.
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207265
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The tapestry of time gets another stitch.
The countdown clock rolls forward.
The whole crazy picture gets a little bit
clearer.
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There can be no convergence./
There is only the talking that talks about/
an angle of sight nothing else can share.
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The psychiatrist was a man who clearly meant to calm his patients, the students. You could tell by his sweater and his neatly combed, plumy hair and the wire-rim glasses he wore. But he was not good at his job. You could tell this by how bad he was at cal
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I sink until water saturates my lashes, waiting, breathless, for the words to stop.
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