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So I went to see the wrinkled
and rumpled poet, who insisted
on reading from memory, stumbling
through his sheaf of poems.
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salmon sits gentler on my palate
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Next to you, the mother tightens her grip on her stroller. The young teenager tears her gaze from her mobile phone for an instant.
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When we are given eternity, as a night is eternal
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In the moment
I crinkle the aluminum foil,
The sandwich now a deeper
Part of me
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It's been almost two years since I bought it.
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All creatures know death at their very core, a tacit default--
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She told me one way to deal with it would be to put everything in a box and burn it.
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the mountains did change/became looming purplish waves/their spray washes us/we rinse slow 'neath lifted waves/that must be at least this tall.
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You left your quiet life for a home in the city.
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Sex is a fetish war --
a battle of trinkets of desire
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He wasn't sure if I was joking.
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drunkards indulge, addicts abuse
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Practice has perfected disengagement.
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You can tell your doctor the truth
Even if no one else will stop and listen
He or she may have a balm for it
To help make it go away
Or at least go into remission
Remission is the staging area for Lies
Corporate and otherwise
We don’t have
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I want to ask him why not now, right here on the living room floor when Rosie is out for the day. Instead, I suggest Sunday afternoon. I can make grilled cheese sandwiches and we'll eat them on the veranda. I'll take off my tennis skirt and unbutton my...
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People usually take fonts for granted.
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"Oh — what is this 'work' thing the philosophers speak of" sort of thing.
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I'll see her this fall, a redhead in camo
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Today the color of the skyremakes my heart into somethingless willing to break, or to judge,and I am thankful for it. Acolor not unlike walking chestdeep in the ocean and seekingbeautiful clouds and thinking Iwill be back. Dreaming with the sky.Please stop lying to me. A…
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IN nature, it's hard to find a straight line. Stand on a beach. Look out to sea. There out far you might think you see a line where the sky comes down to join. Where two fields of blue meet. But where you're not quite sure for the line is a blur there. You…
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soft voices singing somewhere in the black back of
rising tensions crashing with the waves...
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Your voice is yearning,
Like a sad song on the radio,
A yarn spun to make hearts break.
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in White Heat
there’s a character
who reads lips
using a mirror to see
the mouths of prisoners
in other cells
that’s how I feel
when I talk
with you
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Lucky for mama, he doesn't like for his women to work.
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As the other mammals go extinct,/
we can’t presume we are immune//
because of big brains and a history/
of belief in the control of nature.
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You better read the papers
If you don’t understand
Cause as of last night
I’m a one-man band
You’d better walk through water
With your boots on fire
Cause Baby I don’t think
I can take this any higher
You’d better find out what I dr
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a sixteen year old girl
Denim
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You were busy, moving, alert inconstant motion; packingbooks, clothes, paintings;deciding yes to this, no to that. I was simply tryingto settle somewhere in the space.We'd known it for years when things were in place. Now, this abrupt interruption of…
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