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These days, even God has a day job.
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Once, an elephant contracted a sudden bolt of insanity in the streets of Ernakulam and trampled three children under her feet before she was shot to death. It took them seven bullets to bring her down.
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Paris was a better place for African Americans in those days. Josephine Baker sent a spray of roses. James Baldwin helped him find a good apartment.
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“Where do you want your mustache?” Melanie asked. “You can have it on the side, you know, or, if you prefer, across your labia, in which case it will also look like a cross?”
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An old man, a widower; living alone, defenseless. It was a given.
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It was Gatlinburg in mid July
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The fluffed-up clouds, darkish in spots,/
are moving fast, opposite the wind/
where I stand and look. Equations//
could describe the multiplicities
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During the liberation, a Jew in the Russian army, asked him who had been the cruelest. My father gave them the name of the farmer who had murdered his father, and was later told the farmer's son was sent to the front and killed.
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When Carlotta left me, I cried / into my soup. I shriveled into / harsh mathematics.
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Why was it so difficult to move / toward anything?
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The night was a lilac bowl of darkness
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She slouched on one hip, scribbled on the order pad. “How do you like your eggs?”
“I like them very much.”
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I felt/
no need to show what I had made/
to anybody else.
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Make cartography with your mouth...
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A man and his wife are walking through a museum when the man sees a shield on the wall. Look at that! he says. Isn’t that remarkable?
The two of them walk a little closer.
What’s so remarkable about it? says his wife.
Well, the workmanship! s
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the mighty mountains sighed, and the wide seas heaved
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On the way over, on the ship, I met a girl from Cleveland.
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We are moments away from the end, and it feels like it.
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tonight's sky is full:/each lunatic to his moon/sings separate songs.
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7
My son has toxic epidermal necrolysis and the nurses who come in from the burn unit, 7 of them, the number 7 don’t you see the number 7 has meaning for numbers have meaning for everything has meaning and I sat in that sacred space in the ICU whe
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She liked this young woman. They’d met two weeks earlier, when the young woman had been walking her pet chicken on a pink ribbon leash.
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That evening I sat and watched the sunset. The color of the water changed from blue to black. The sky turned from pink to star-spangled ebony. There was no moon.
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the definition of beauty is easy
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I found the knife in a fishing box in the closet. The box was made out of varnished wood. My father’s father had made it.
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Tuesdays she worked afternoons at the bookstore, and he’d secretly go, buy a large order, sit in a corner with a newspaper. Fries covered in vinegar, veins of ketchup.
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Sue Ellen walked on. “You were thinking about me -- I saw you.”
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I was always too political, you said, with my Malcolm X posters and my DC rallies...
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in a puddle of water, the butterfly rests on a stone
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