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His hands are old
But still function
As hands
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in the much more terrorizing display/
of male pattern stupidity//
as seen so often on TV/
in the House and at Fox News.
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Her mother sighed, fingering the faux-pearls around her neck. Barbara's neck tensed, almost as though the hair on the back of it would stand up: Here comes a platitude . . .
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Even in the fading light, it looked big enough to disembowel a man.
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She hadn’t died. She wasn’t a ghost. She wasn’t even invisible. She just wasn’t see-able.
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You think I don't know, that's your whole stupid problem. You don't believe in anyone. You must enjoy living in a dark lonely universe. I don't know if you know or not about the lights that live in your own head, but I believe …
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Today’s new YouTube kitten;
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Suddenly everything is delaminating
People are popping right off
the surface of humanity
I am coming loose from my previous lives
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The watermelon slices were painted wood, because they held their shape better in the heat. The photo was done night-for-day with bright spotlights to make for sharper outlines than natural light could provide. In actuality, it is all shadows.
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Blending in at a rock concert in ballet flats was harder than I thought it would be. The heavy eye makeup and lit cigarette I never brought to my lips put me somewhere between “Trying Too Hard” and “Bless Her Heart.”
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At my daughter's wake Mr. Aleford, her teacher, poked out his pointy nose, sniffing my cologne. How could I be plastered with this, at a time like this? Well, dear Sir, Two reasons. One, to hide the booze. And two, because my wife and I had made feverish love that…
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perhaps I am only being transported not for replacement but for repair
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I said he was cold. I said I like cold.
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In its own defense
against what is too concrete
the mind allows a magical thought--
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I tell people that we leave out food for the creatures to appease the skunk gods.
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—Pretty tulips, said the woman.
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and the smiles light the way
when the wind blows the darkness
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We want our lives even-cut, …
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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The Boys The Boys, they call my brothers in the neighborhood, or Those Boys. The Taylor Boys. Sometimes, Mom calls them Thing One and Thing Two, like in The Cat in the Hat. Those bad boys. Nobody has brothers like my brothers, kicked off the school bus, barred…
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I was seeking nothing more than this: to have my suit altered.
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Stories Around People An Event Facebook lived in midtown, for there the people and windows shone like water. Though it would board the bus—1 day—and ride to the sea, where people said words like sea and where the city shone in the waves…
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But those burning red numbers persist in my mind
and I can't rest 'till they're gone
They always come back
Like the cat in that childhood song.
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It’s always fun and easy/
to punish the poor
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“Mules don’t like to dive, Esther.”
“I said maybe, Hugh. Maybe.”
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I may be the shadow that I am, but I only ever loved you.
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They couldn’t have done it better if they’d waved guns around in the air.
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