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She likes his smile and Cajun accent, his earring and dangerous ink.
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All the things that are his.
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Ice Pussy sat in the bookstore thumbing through a worn copy of Robert Graves: The Laura Years. The Tickler was late. She had no intention of actually reading the book, but was killing time before the Rex Parade, due to start in…
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The kid popped the yolk from the hard-boiled egg. He stuffed the albumin in his mouth and tossed the yolk into the shrubs. Broken pieces of shell gathered at his feet as I silently ate my sandwich. …
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Life's a long way from here
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You call your wife. “Do you see what I see?” you ask.
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Its odors of quicklime/
and pyre-smoke will curl/
commingled in acrid air.
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...I had a string of Sunday School medals that knighted me a warrior for Jesus Christ of Nazareth...
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a snowflake won’t settle on a smoking furnace;
the fathers were never restless, it was always the earth that moved.
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Now, this boy removed his socks in front of me, on the chair beside my desk where I read my books, and said: “My toenails aren’t shaped properly.”
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You look at me with that contemptuous smirk while I'm here in Walmart dressed in sweats and house slippers, sloppy, a bit fat, trying to figure out which electric toothbrush to buy.
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I said: “Doesn’t he understand? People like me, geniuses—great, mad geniuses—are prone to failures because we do not accept the common notions of society? Doesn’t he understand? I’m not like the others.”
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When spring finally arrived in Maine that year and the sap began to run, buds on branches swelled up with a promise of vengeance. Tender shoots of grass arose timidly, rallying in song, a song the birds gladly took up, melting the last resistance into islets of snow on …
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With each step, that cold hand steals ever upward.
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It must have been in our blood, the urge to run.
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... the CBO issued a concise and brilliant report demonstrating that the most cost-effective and permanent solution to the multiple problems presented by persistent poverty in the United States was the elimination of all those with prorated household or i
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The walks along the beach/
render brave, meticulous,
taxonomies
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If there was a God he was deaf in both ears, blind in both eyes and dumb.
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with your finger I will let you know. If you mean even just one given look at the moon I will know. If you peel off one lonely star and put that shining shell in your watch pocket for later or to skip across your sad …
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They coo and gurgle in the warmth of twig and down. They are so delicate, hard to look at without thinking of death. I tell them I want for them chief among all things strength, speed, resilience.
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The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue just came out, and all over America librarians are flipping through its pages and rolling their eyes. The swimsuit issue, which isn't actually about swimwear at all, but, is, instead, about young, beautifully shaped female…
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Oh, do you love them? Because maybe when you go home, after your stolen minutes in the field, your nanny makes you scrub scrub scrub all that bug dirt from you, and she tsk tsks the grass stains on your bright white new knickers.
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The following is a true story, or rather it is a true experience from the story of my life. Some say that just because something happens doesn’t really make it “true”.
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