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When the cab dropped Frank at his address at seven that evening, he noticed the lights were on in Michiko’s apartment.
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as you are, there's a big floating arm that separates both of us from each other. Widening, like a river, it touches us together often, but still keeps us drifting apart. The banks of your new life have different weeds and flowers…
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She used her right breast. Lifted it to her chin, aimed at the can, and shoved it down as hard as she could.
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From nine at night until five in the morningthe mannequins staff the Dream Shop.Customers sleepwalk in and murmur their enquiries.Some of the patrons are very demanding.They queue outside before opening…
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How much more attuned he was when surrounded by forest, consigning meaning to each tiny sound.
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I listen to my psychotherapy patients complain about their lives all day. Bitterly, hopelessly. I listen for little openings that offer possibilities for changing perspective and feeling weller. But my five minutes between each session, whether it includes a bathroom or…
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it acquires a fine translucence
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Who puts Vaseline
on the forefinger
of Lenin?
I want to know
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She locked herself in the bathroom on our wedding night. That was my first clue that I had made a mistake.
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there should be a word for it.
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When it rains, I can really think.
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I hate walking into restaurants and cafes by myself to meet someone. I always feel awkward, as if no one will claim me. I'm hanging on the threshold now for an agonizing few moments scanning the room until I see my friend.“Hi!” she says, waving her cup at…
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1I don't like it when they leave the heads on.I mean it's not nice, is it.The idyllic order of the abattoir.Mary is on stunning and bleeding.She prefers evisceration.Still, the work's ok and it's her day off tomorrow.Deft hands perform their daily ballet.Mary had a…
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There is an empty space,
between every note in rock 'n' roll,
where they have buried John Bonham,
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In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. What on Earth does that mean? What the hell? Earth, hell, heaven, they were good concepts. He took a rib out of Adam and began to write with it.
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I went to see an audiologist this afternoon. He specialized in tinnitus. Good news for me. I've been plagued with tinnitus for 55 years. It started the morning after a catastrophic experience with LSD. It was there when I awoke in a padded room in a hospital in San José,…
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She sang will you still need me
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The superhero is out there in the fields, discovering herself.
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Inspired by my last writers' workshop, where encouragement is key.
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Not many people like Geminis.
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This is the world of an urgent art,
the room silent, except for the constant
sound of the camera.
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And here’s a picture of you
at the end of the line
to the great toilet of
fiction, waiting to
relieve yourself, quick
before the poetry gets to you.
Or worse, the actual
poets.
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Boys of summer in Yonkers played stickball and baseball.
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19. You never know yourself till you know the dust. 51. Treasures are the ligatures between our wants and love. 33. Truth is able to turn one's stomach.
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Learned & wealthy but slowly going mad
from seeing, he did the only thing he could/he turned to love
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Looking over the crowd in the arcade is like looking over a crowd of zombies.
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to the back of your mind like a box of unpacked yet beloved books if you want, but that's no life I want to explore any further with you. We don't have as much time as we once thought, to believe in something other than empty bottles lost in the…
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Today clouds were dancing on the moon
Moon had a fit but drew in a breath
And let out a sigh
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Over our short, yet enduring relationship, I found that he was desperately trying to reconcile his ambitions with his situation. I left and he continued to be unhappy, trying to "fix" what he now realized had been broken all along. In the end, a span of a
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