| 1905  6  5   
 | In my own case, before Ellen, of course there was someone else. She—well, she was someone who I felt as if I’d always known and always would. And I think she felt the same about me. | 
		
		
			| 1096  1  0   
 | HE DREAMED THAT NIGHT OF A SMALL BLACK CHILD LYING  INJURED IN THE STREET, UNABLE TO CRY OUT | 
		
		
			| 1221  1  1   
 | Reports have been spreading fast 
that an actual living poet 
has been found right outside the 
borders of Berkeley 
Rumors grew into a wildfire of speculation 
Saturday night when one of them 
a tall graying older specimen 
more or less in the | 
		
		
			| 2019  7  0   
 | There we sat, myself and I, at a small folding table in the middle of the lab beside the main, l-shaped workbench.  The lab was empty - always was - except for the two of us. | 
		
		
			| 1197  3  1   
 | Far away or up close, she appeared just like anyone else, a young woman with pale arms and legs and a milk-face unblemished by a single freckle or pimple or blotch. Only when she turned a certain way did it become clear that what rested atop her muscle an | 
		
		
			| 1559  11  6   
 | One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living | 
		
		
			| 973  3  2   
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			| 1225  4  2   
 | Some great, doubtless precious;
some hollow, likely empty;
some only shards, but you never know... | 
		
		
			| 1660  14  9   
 |          “Mommy,”  the voice was thin as a fledgling's.             “I'm  here, baby,” I said. An arm rose from the pavement and small fingers wound  themselves into my… | 
		
		
			| 3402  33  13   
 | The summer she turned 17, she had to hold all the pieces of herself together with a red ribbon she tore off an old dress. It wound its way around her neck, her heart and her throat.  It snaked down to her hips, the curve of her thighs, and wrapped itself | 
		
		
			| 1084  0  0   
 | She had covered her laughing mouth, trying to prevent him from seeing a storied past. | 
		
		
			| 2858  28  20   
 | I was always too political, you said, with my Malcolm X posters and my DC rallies... | 
		
		
			| 1807  5  1   
 | One of her favorites was of an old axe asleep on a desert floor. She told people the axe had the western lips of September. That it held the song of the ocean and the dreams of a scarecrow. Some thought she was mad to talk in such a way. Others believed h | 
		
		
			| 1193  9  2   
 | i think god composed afternoons with crayons | 
		
		
			| 1269  2  0   
 | Pascal would let something slip now and then. He was sharp and spoke excellent English, with a beautiful Spanish accent. He corrected speech among the guys, but he exercised his lessons in grammar with an eloquence that fascinated all of us, not letting a | 
		
		
			| 4915  45  36   
 | She said she wanted to find a man who could appreciate a woman who gave great head. | 
		
		
			| 1235  2  2   
 | This is the record of a drowning. | 
		
		
			| 715  3  0   
 | I wanted the pain to go away | 
		
		
			| 1698  4  1   
 | Leo, leo, leo, leo, the word itself imprinted on my brain, carved with a pearl handled blade into my cerebral cortex, into the medulla, burrowed deep into my dreams, I miss your kissing. | 
		
		
			| 1561  8  3   
 | Sometimes they bleat like sheep when I shave in the shower. They live in a complex social order. | 
		
		
			| 1185  7  1   
 | The sound of a siren approaches his home. His wife asks him why he's so nervous. It's nothing, he says, but he rises from the couch and peers into the night from behind the curtains. The siren approaches relentlessly. The road twists and turns and the sound fades but always… | 
		
		
			| 1050  3  3   
 | The sun was a dish of burnished courage | 
		
		
			| 1592  2  1   
 | The Bridge                   Barstow had not wanted to listen to Griff. Griff was not making the right decisions, or he thought Griff was not making the right decisions. Thought he was walking a… | 
		
		
			| 1300  4  2   
 | Blankets were always her undoing. | 
		
		
			| 1084  5  1   
 | "I love you.”“Night.”Back at the screen door she answers   “What?” I stand under her nose and say “Box is out of juice.” Inside   she sits me on the black and white polka-dotted sofa we make love around   here and there.… | 
		
		
			| 1532  5  3   
 | Smoking is like hooking up with an ex-girlfriend: you know she's bad for you and that it won't work out, but it feels so familiar and comfortable and so easy to slide back into. | 
		
		
			| 1623  13  5   
 | The javelin was cancelled after the unfortunate incident with Mrs Parker last year, but no one could have predicted this year’s sack race tragedy. | 
		
		
			| 1262  2  1   
 | In the blur she met Joseph. Joseph was the priest who lived in the attic of the church. She met him after she grew boobs and thighs that moved like dragonflies soaring above ponds.  | 
		
		
			| 1231  8  1   
 | He was a Jack Russell terrier 
hanging like a baby 
in a carrier 
strapped to my chest 
He had all four legs 
wrapped around me 
and was licking me 
with his long tongue 
I asked him what his name 
was, and in a real low voice 
he said 
Min | 
		
		
			| 1854  3  1   
 | "Special delivery for a friend?" he asked. "Postcards are a wonderful thing. All people want to do nowadays is send e-mails. But what's better than putting a postcard on the fridge?" |