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The day after falling in love,
I became unmoored from everything familiar.
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It chases other newborns down and eats them.
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Whenever my mother’s will-to-live wavered and her hand reached out for the electric fence, my ash would whisper, “Live, live.”
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I am eternal/
as long as the power holds
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I knew a girl on Folly Island who took
showers in water so hot
her skin blushed pink rosettes.
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**I think Bridgestone Tire borrowed this story for a commercial. Maybe not, see video and decide.**
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The moonlight news is brutal
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I drove to you in April / and you loved me all through Illinois
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He held my little hand in his and guided it through the dirt.
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Even now I can remember things people said...
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Effie reckons the river her sister keeps asking about, the Great Pee Dee, was named after some Indians.
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Today the isobars are far apart.
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Then I heard it -- a sound like an oboe being strangled. Teeny was farting onto the cement stoop through her jeans, a tripple flutter blast.
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Certainly leftover cyanide-based Zyclon-B pesticide from the gas chamber was used to purge the lawn of weeds, bugs and vermin. Very efficient. No waste. Perfectly recycled.
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Taken by agents of the United States of America, Felix Six-Killer grows up at the Carlisle Indian School near Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. His hair is cut and oiled. His shirts are starched and creased. For months he is startled to find himself seated for…
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The leaves are telegrams sent from the branches to the wind, saying, “it's over stop don't send kisses stop forget me.”
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6% of anorexics die of their disorder, most of sudden heart failure.
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Leonard didn't know that cute girl well, hardly at all, but he really wanted to. She was his first real crush in Junior High. He got his chance and talked to her some one day while they were walking down the hall between classes. She actually spoke to him first. The bell…
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. . . and the last thing you’ll smell will be new-cut pine.
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Children imagine dying all the time, especially when someone in their life, someone close, has died. Children's games often include pretend dying, flopping around after being shot for about three minutes, choking, falling to the ground and…
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I say no by saying nothing.
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We met in graduate school. We were both taking a course on teaching using the case study method over at the Business School. I was from psychology. She was from biology. We were both getting Harvard doctorates. But as many people…
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It’s like faith. My battle buddy is out there, I know it, but I can’t see him, nor can I hear him. I just know he’s there, trusting he’ll do what he’s supposed to do, and he’s trusting in me.
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Walking those damned dogs is a pain… a PAIN every night. If it’s not urban skunks, it’s Mormons on bikes… the bastards
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If I should wake/
before I die,/
just shoot me through/
the one good eye.
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If I am to answer honestly (writers are notorious liars, especially when asked about writing) I have to say that it is not about making a book, and it is certainly not about publication.
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