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Maybe, after years of writing poems like letters, he began to notice that no one ever wrote him back.
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I lack the intellect, discipline,
and faith in anything
but our ultimate erasure.
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Mrs. Death was walking in mountains where everything around was still. Mr. Death? —in another hemisphere, wandering (last she’d heard) through a vast forest.
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After you lost sight in your left eye, mom made me go on the road with you that last summer to help you see.
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Who's that? I don't know. …
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The monkey did not live for long. He’d lost interest in the stuffed dog pretty much right away. The farther away the shuttle, the more garbled and fanciful the sign language the monkey had been taught became.
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When the truth is spoken, we don’t know
Where to look, as if we only know someone
Has gotten away with something big
Or stolen someone’s heart, knowing how easy
It was, how fragile, how true to itself
So open and weightless, without guile
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This is no time for those of a religious persuasion. No.
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I had a hell of a time finding the M16. The last one was made in 2075 and when I asked around half the people I talked to barely even knew what a rifle was. Through some of my old military connections, I met Taddeo who called himself a “gun genealogist” and who…
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Miranda laughed. The cream of the retail industry laughed...
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I can’t hold a job
I can’t hold a hammer
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Weekly game night for the Oscar Family. Winning is secondary.
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Something has put us together again. Only this time we are separated by circumstance that's particularly thin. I can touch you. You can touch me. We can sit next to each other. We can talk. But not about certain things. You know that. It would…
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