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a girl in a red cap
flashes by
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I haven't felt my soul leave my body
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As a boy Edward had stayed in the confessional several times in a row. The priest was drunk and couldn't tell it was the same kid over and over. The tiny door slid open…”Scobbity bobbity…tell me your sins…” Edward confessed what he thought were sins, then said…
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Mothers and sons and war, an old story...
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The girls had gathered in the hall. Carefully dressed and made up, they appeared as rows of variegated artworks in front of the audience. In their eyes the lights flickered like small luminous petals. Celia sat in the middle row. The spirit was exactly right. Her decision…
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I turned to ask, “What is going on? Don't you remember me? “ But she was gone
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"As soon as you're born, they make you feel small."--John LennonI cannot do anything about how beautiful you are, my sour flower, but I can tell you this much: Joni Mitchell is better than all the cowards in the world. They all chose to somehow…
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a poem that unwrapped itself so casually I tucked it under my tongue, just to make sure
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The squirrels love the sun
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with so many thick curtains hung out to shroud/ so many unlit eyes, Night you’d think could spare/ a small few for our diversion . . .
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Some misadventures of band members have caused show postponements
And cancellations during the band's 50-year-long career
The start of a European tour was postponed in 1998
When one of them fell off a ladder in his home
But the band didn’t
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Playing dead was a lot like dying might be… if you can imagine it. My eyes were open and I feigned death as well as ever a man has played the part of a corpse.
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TW: Self-harm. I wanted to write a mental health essay that wasn't all rah! rah! and with as little sentimentality as possible. Out of everything I've published, I've gotten the most feedback from this--people telling me it helped them understand a loved one better, etc.…
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still to early to dodge leaping bodies on misty roads at night
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I have shellfish and sailfish
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In my 14 to 15 year old life in the late 50s I worked as a clean-up boy in the neighborhood butcher shop up on 5th. Ave.,
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sometimes i have to be in the other room
just so i can breathe easy away from you.
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You clever code-breaker, subtle lifter of veils.
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The Muse//has used/ me up
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SHE put her suitcase on his threshold and pulled the old bell. He opened the door:"Mariline ...""Father ..."She had met him at her mother's funeral some months before. Holding his frail and docile arm, she had confined all thoughts within a wreath in an effort to keep her…
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(no one need fear timidity in our tastes― /
we like trying new things, no matter our hastes!)
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I’ve fallen beside the sunrise
I’ve fallen beside the sunset
As well and died
I see your face in the shadows under clouds
I see your face everywhere
And I haven’t even tried
But there you are
You’re everywhere I look
Even when I’m no
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It was all things considered a particularly odd sight, which Annalise did not know how to handle.
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everything moved in circles
like the music, the booze and the drugs
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children love to push the gas up and down my limbs
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“Well, that depends. Some people, they go to a very good place. And some go to a very bad place. And some don't go anywhere. Just depends on what you believe.
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Jo was tailored, Amy was frivolous with ribbons and bows, Meg was plain and sensible; and Beth, who was ill and had no costume changes, wore the same nightgown throughout the dress-up session.
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