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This is a lady who never got a break.
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23043221
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I went with Dale Stack to drown a cat on a fading summer afternoon.
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25372319
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Seems like the tar just got hold of Daddy somehow. What is it about asphalt and a man?
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2902920
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19452423
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You just can’t believe your key / won’t open the front door anymore.
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22421615
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15921814
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23883516
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The tubing unwound in her hands, unreeling like a garden hose... it wasn't always that easy...
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17102119
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I crawl under a table in the kitchen and listen to the women talk.
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20332720
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I peeled his tongue, word by contemptuous word, until he had nothing left but a scrappy shred of muscle flapping in his empty head...
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23063719
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There's a story of you who says to go on, to walk the room, to pretend to contemplate. Promises that if you lift your hand your head will follow. Assures you when your bones reignite there will be day, there will be night, and you'll know which is which. Don't worry about…
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16252322
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The painting was on loan from a gallery in Chicago. We stood there connecting the dots.
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1316119
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Be careful when you choose your muse,
for she may be a siren.
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9813118
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... “All power is just behind your belly. Look. Knot of belt – just in front of navel – navel is eye of chi.” ...
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21852519
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My mother was a child of the death camps, passed her adolescence there. Survived.
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21272219
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You’re broken. Your eyes don’t see quite right, and your hands don’t feel quick enough. I love you anyway.
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18554720
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The serious writer always knew there would be a last story but when the time came, he felt ill-prepared.
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16963918
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Sometimes, under the gauze and yellow salves, I glimpse you...
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18424321
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it ate her and then I was next in line
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23524012
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The memory of thinking
in some other language
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18242021
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Nights like this don’t happen often, nights when I wander the streets of an unknown village, dark and quiet streets that offer little in the way of diversion.
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3422818
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Every time they said Gloria I turned around but of course they meant Gloria Steinem.
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18702617
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The Batman says it's his birthday. I take him at his word.
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24762821
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Two nights before his heart burst its strings near sundown Shabbat, we met at my house to wait for paint to dry. We could make an evening of that.
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19562622
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This test should not be a riddle, it's a simple yes/no. The answer should settle curiosity with an image. One line or two, plus or minus. I say something like this, and the customer service rep asks me to hold.Thing is, I know the answer. I'm moody. My breasts feel like…
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22893720
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"And I listened, too, sitting at the table with him with my palms on my chin and my fingers on my face ‘cause I love listening to my man talking about why he loves me."
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23763719
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It had been so long since the telephone had rung, he’d forgotten the sound.
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20283019
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He’s hooked on the pinball / excitements of adolescence
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20512421
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She likes his smile and Cajun accent, his earring and dangerous ink.
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28972513
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My son, six, is practicing dying.
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