1580 10 8
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My sister / craves raisons
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211866
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Everyday the buildings seem to be getting taller and taller.
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1156107
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"The sheriff's mother-in-law made the smoothest 'shine in the county."
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107022
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Walking with one giant dog and one tiny one, I didn’t feel at home, but I felt something better.
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Street mime in white face and white gloves, trapped in invisible box. Tip jar empty. Marcel's solo-dancing the tango now, teeth clenching ephemeral rose. Passersby pass him by.
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Steve lowers himself onto a lounge chair and lets out a long, overdue sigh. Cliff and Jim, the frickin’ and frackin’ of the built-in pool industry, are making a Burger Chef run while the cement sets.
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20931310
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I need a different storage solution
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137144
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On our wedding day he carried all of the furniture out of our small bedroom, created a sanctuary.
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1643137
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Can we survive our Y chromosome?
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158244
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However could anyone get Joyce scholarship mixed up with physical anthropology?
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13311110
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The young boy sat on the swing, hearing sirens in the distance. The tops of his shoes were dirty. His fingers as well, where he drew stick figures of people in the dirt. His…
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123600
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Polo observed Madam Mayweather’s demeanor. The concern in her eyes for the students and faculty under attack by the Nocturne.
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154665
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Yes, I can imagine it now/
how we could each disappear completely/
connected only through memory's fault lines/
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153476
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Only blood I got on me was pulling him over onto my seat when I got out.
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2031108
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Wake up, stretch. Check the curtained windows for sunlight or
that dreaded grey frame that forces the covers to come back up
and the alarm clock to be set to ‘Snooze’.
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179885
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Without warning his eyes expertly navigated into a closed position setting off the dream machine long without power until this very second.
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The princess knew exactly where to find the annoying gurgling frog of her childhood, but she wasn't wearing the right shoes to step onto lily pads with, so she decided there and then to take a stolen boat out onto that soft mission, all by herself instead. It was a…
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The beer on the shore is
Lapping at the foam of memory
And I can’t sit still
Until I take my pill
Karma Wash, Hog Wash and Swill
I went to the top of the heap
At the bottom of the Hill
I saw a bum’s sign that read:
“Will eat dog food for
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There are lines//
across time, beyond the tug/
of elections and fashion,/
beyond the turbulence of history
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Somehow, I have your body,
but you’ve gone missing.
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ghosts are local plagues/of unexpended grief—tears/can't be bodiless.
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10564
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I lounged in my captain’s chair growing a beard. Things continued in this way and then the president called.He wanted to know the meaning of virtue.
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Friday night, a bar downtown, beneath the swirling dots of disco lights, seated at a table by the door, I come across a Cheerleader from my high school days, having a Martini with the Quarterback she married. Even in forgiving light, …
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next time i come around i want to be a redwood.
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140743
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153154
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He did not hear her enter the room...
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149085
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I imagine you in the States,
pushing stacks of work papers and our memories
to the side, sense your enjoyment that
you won’t see the worry of your
behavior reflected in my eyes again.
That you can buy and bang and be
whomever you want,
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