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If you find a lone, sad honeybee, buy a Habitrail cage and make it your new pet.
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I pointed, trying to keep a rising frisson of alarm from my voice.
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Half-pint Ball canning jars, each labeled in earnest capital letters, took up a whole wall of Teeny’s bedroom. Inside each jar was air she had collected from some place important to her life.
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In time's embroidery, the human storyis a short stretch of a short strand within the thread of half a knot-and that stretch of strand's defective. What will mourn us when we're gone?Not the plants which live so lightly on the earth.Not the scorpions and not the ants.Perhaps…
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dicks, skulls and upside down crosses
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on this scenic route you will likely encounter a handful of bicycle spoke lobster traps.
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On the bank of the stream, we take off our clothes and dash into the water.
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The neighbor kids start, we join in–
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... his skin glistened
like a sharp blade
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That morning, four children appeared in front of the train, which was ready to depart
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The slicing is easy. Blade barely touching skin, flesh separating into two clean parts. A breath, and blood fills in the space, an old friend materializing in the shadows. I am redolent with hope and desire. I can't stop thinking of how he excised himself from my…
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Let’s be honest, you were cheating on your girlfriend, and I would’ve slept with anyone
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...the bulk of poets are amateurs.
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dos equis ambar
sits cool and dark
by my side
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Some of the notes allude to how the ineluctable modalities of the visible and audible are transformed by the experience of hanging in a transparent egg half out of a B-17 at 10 thousand feet waiting to be spattered like paint.
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...coming into that bone yard, you just hang a right, go on past La Fontaine, and take a left a bit further on. Jimbo's right up in there.
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Always in a hurry/to spoil your/weekend
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The clickity-click of poker chips spills out to the six of us waiting for a table. We're old college buddies, drunk since one this afternoon, sporting the ball caps our wives never let us wear. We brag. About our poker wins, how easy it is to read each other, how we can…
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Foolish boy, you chose
your parents poorly-
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like the dome of an immense lamp
like blades of grass at the sweep of the scythe
like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide
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Often, meeting attractive people we pay very little emotion toward them ... Why? It's because we have no common (often the economic in its sense) project of living to bring us together ... When such project exist ... Then, well ... we find people sexy
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the moon is coming back now the shadow hovering and shiftingthe clouds a passing shroud I didn't know if I would be patient enough but now the sliver of light is increasing filling in / filling out the circle I am surprised by how much relief I feel there…
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Usually the predawn light means bedtime for wicked guitar players, but not that bloody Sunday.
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The giant hurled threats and insults. He brandished a knife that was a foot long.
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We eat, sleep, play Scrabble on our iPads, and go down to breakers at sunrise and sunset. The sunset is spectacular.
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Follow the money. It seeks/
the lowest of the low and finds them here/
in an embarrassing abundance.
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my stomach is empty, but it is my eyes that are hungry
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I realize I am standing with my hands on my naked hips, my panties and shorts are clumped around my left ankle.
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On the usefulness of hands.
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