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Have you heard this yet? The daughter flew home to care for the mother, whose pump is still tick ticking—though now with aid—which means she leaves the kitchen when the microwave clicks on.
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There's no rain--there hasn't been rain in weeks--but the clouds are dark without the sun, and I can't see the stars.
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He now knew the impossible to be possible.
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So, I rough her up with sand paper, and hit her with chains, making dents. She examines her surfaces, tidily and efficiently, indicating the spots most in need of filling in with scratches and scrapes.
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We are impressed and cheer them on/
in their struggle against the wild/
and unkempt ravages of nature
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Why is the sky grey he asked meI don't know, I saysudden flashes of light snowbloat the cloudssea gulls are squawkingexpect them to peck at my headI have nothing to feed them
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fanned lashes on rouged cheek
a glamorous sea creature
in violet perfume
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When you say they were too big, too wild, they weren't too big to be giants. Giants are meant to dwarf things. They can't help it. They're not trying to make you feel helpless to give them a haircut. They just grow fast. But they…
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At night, I fold your name in origami doves and blow, hard, and you are disassembled come morning.
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We were offered mannequins that had pubic hair that grew and swirled, and could visit like a pet, and sit in your lap
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One of the women is a brassy blond, and when she takes off her coat, I almost choke on a French fry.
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“I don’t see how anybody could do it.”
“I could do it. I could do it because it ought to be done. When a thing needs doing, it’s best to go on and do it.”
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...when suddenly I was pushed from behind, smack into the deep end.
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It was there, and then it wasn’t, the victim of a magician or a swooping seabird.
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Long, elegant, with a touch of arch,
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"And you’ll forgive my sayin’, your Maggie’s in heat, and if ya want to keep her you’re gonna ‘ave to fight. To be sure after this they’ll leave ya alone.”
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All eyes aim towards the heavens.
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It’s an almost mystical experience, walking in the warm, radioactive rain. It’s a rare moment of peace, a gathering of breath before the next storm, before the next wave of panic, before those frozen in shock come to themselves and rush through the stree
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You lazy fuckwit! You half-assed shithead!
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They say his irrational outbursts and insane rantsare the results of untreated syphilis. Well, thatmakes perfect sense to me. I've always thoughtof him as a tessellated spirochete, a narcissistic chancre,festering pustule of a blistered imposthume. And whywouldn't a…
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Every encounter is a dance, every secret has its key
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Philip Ahearn woke up in an empty field. Last night had been one hell of a party - he almost hooked up with Rosamund - and, at the time, it seemed wiser to crash outside than to drive and really crash. But he wasn't a kid anymore and sleeping on the…
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my mouth is open, ready to bite your tiny toes
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So, I escaped from the Iron Curtain out of Czechoslovakia, as was called then. That was in 1956 I escaped, and came to Chicago where all of you were for some time already. I know our grandparents came over in early part of century, but my part of family
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words have their own ancestors,/deeds are commanded by their own lords./
knowledge and thought do not make me understand—/no surprise, then, that I am not understood.
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“Whup!” he said, as a lorry pulled up in front. ¶ “Here’s your lorry.”
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Hair as black as a Raven’s wing. Dark eyes. You wore a black dress, too, my favorite color.
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Tyler has a Mars bar in his jeans pocket. It’s warm and soft. He tries to insert it.
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You say you want a resolution
Well, I got one
Let's start with nothing at all
No logic, no war, no whiskey or bombs
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