290 29 20
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1922 24 23
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You just can’t believe your key / won’t open the front door anymore.
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2217 16 15
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1566 18 14
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2363 35 16
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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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1691 21 19
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I crawl under a table in the kitchen and listen to the women talk.
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2011 27 20
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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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2278 37 19
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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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1605 23 22
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The painting was on loan from a gallery in Chicago. We stood there connecting the dots.
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1276 11 9
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Be careful when you choose your muse,
for she may be a siren.
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962 31 18
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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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2164 25 19
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My mother was a child of the death camps, passed her adolescence there. Survived.
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2099 22 19
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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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1830 47 20
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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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1669 39 18
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Sometimes, under the gauze and yellow salves, I glimpse you...
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1817 43 21
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it ate her and then I was next in line
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2327 40 12
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The memory of thinking
in some other language
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1804 20 21
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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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342 28 18
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Every time they said Gloria I turned around but of course they meant Gloria Steinem.
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1849 26 17
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The Batman says it's his birthday. I take him at his word.
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2450 28 21
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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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1929 26 22
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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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2240 37 20
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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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2349 37 19
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It had been so long since the telephone had rung, he’d forgotten the sound.
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2002 30 19
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He’s hooked on the pinball / excitements of adolescence
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2028 24 21
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She likes his smile and Cajun accent, his earring and dangerous ink.
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2872 25 13
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My son, six, is practicing dying.
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2072 13 15
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Love is always going to be all even when all else is
floating to the burning ground.
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2081 37 18
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On Saturday mornings, by noon, the delivery car comes from Boston and unloads fresh bread and sandwiches, pork ribs and ground pork stuffed inside of breads and buns and banana leaves, bean shakes, and sticky rice desserts.
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2000 26 21
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They didn’t run out of each other’s ink.
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