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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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190199
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What if I said;
I never liked actually reading?
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19013313
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There was dad sitting at the table, wide awake, reading glasses on nose, pen in hand above a Doppler graph of numbers on paper, one of many now-lost theorems, looking up as his son walked into the room.
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190121
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“Jus’ because a story told right don’t make it true,” he said. “Sometimes the story is there ain’t no story. Sometimes you look way down inside, and ain’t nuthin’ there. Can’t write no book ‘bout nuthin’. Won’t sell none. But them
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190155
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It seems the people of this house were a happy family – The smiling faces, the children’s enthusiasm tells me as much. I wonder what happened to them.
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190186
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no one else comes in my back door but you
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190033
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190062
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You longed to rip off her butterfly wings and watch her scream in agony. You ached to carve the steel from her eyes.
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1900106
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He kind of enjoyed living by himself. It was nice and peaceful.
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190013
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While I didn’t like to see Courtney swat smokes out of his mouth and admonish him, saying “Cigarettes. Bad. Fire. Bad,” her home was such a beautiful place, with its real wood and two TV and all...
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190020
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A black wind raced ahead of the Merbreth and Juko could smell the thing's fur, matted with the blood of men. The coppery scent mingled with the fear coming off the men around him, a fear so palpable it became a tangible thing, something to be tripped over
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19003626
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I watch my mother and my daughter, each wondering in her own quiet way about where this story will go next.
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190070
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Who is the moron that invented the Snuggie?
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1899125
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The right is empty, waiting to receive the load like a catcher behind home plate.
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18992015
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over tea & saltineshe read melike an obituary
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18993017
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It was a surprise they put me in a dormitory, not a cell,
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189931
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[ETIQUETTE ... DECORUM ... BOUNDARIES ... BAH!]
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1899145
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She asks if I would like to join them.
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189934
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Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.
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189900
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The man in the gray trench coat showed up around a quarter to eight.
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189921
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Fleas were a constant reminder that humans are food.
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189871
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In 1978, a computer program became privy to my grandmother's most secret thoughts.
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189854
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You can’t take a chandelier on an emergency dash across a nuclear desert.
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189873
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Like all professors, I'm required to maintain office hours to help my students so I'm at my desk every fourth Tuesday of months without an "r" in them from 10:30 to 11:00 p.m.
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18971410
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They were carried out / over shoulders of running soldiers / naked bodies pass
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1897126
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We go in gently at first, skimming over the first few swells and dropping speed, but then we pitch hard, tail over. The windshield holds. I think of Lily. I think of the baby. And I see my life.
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189710
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For Hector it was animals. Rats, dogs, fish, and quite often horses – sometimes even lions. But for Achilles, it was always dead bodies.
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189741
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I'm delighted to report that I've come up with my own school of thought. It's called, "Dress Like a Cat Until You Get What You Want."
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189722
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That's when we struggle, got it? Right there on the floor. It's not the brawl of the century, and I'm not the pilot who delivers the Enola Gay.
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189761
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To my right, blank stares interchange with closed eyelids on an unkempt face. The minutes drip into the endless sea of night outside the window, each time creating a deeper blackness.
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