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She doesn’t notice the small group of women in saris, emerald and garnet, sapphire and citrine, the cloth covered with mirrors glinting in the light. Or how they link plump brown arms, frightened or delighted by the attention, huddled close, bird-like ch
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Five girls wobble into the train car. Their blistered feet protrude from the bedazzled straps of their sandals. Conductor: “Girls in the back with the open containers, you can't have those on the train.” A heavy-set girl in a belted yellow mini-dress…
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The train sits in the main station and you see a man foist himself into a seat next to a young woman in jeans, stabbing his lit cigarette close to her face, "Don't you ever pretend you don't know me again, you hear?"She freezes. Only her eyes frantically dart, lock onto…
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It was a surprise they put me in a dormitory, not a cell,
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The phone screamed again, nearly rattling off the hook, and I winced. Only in the dead of night, silence all around it and with the ring so unexpected, did it register as an alarm like this.
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On the bus I sat like an ounce.
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Every day hurts, just a little, but not enough
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“White,” he says. -- “Black,” I answer.
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My wife tells me I should marry Pam. “She would be good for you,” she says.
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If you’re not dead yet, you’ll die of something.
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It was a lovely day all the horrors in deep hiding
leaving me, leaving all of us, a chance to wonder why
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I'd been working for two years as a barista in a Starbuck's in a giant, two-story Borders in an upscale mall on Rt. 355, a main artery between Washington D.C., and Frederick, Maryland. I'd finished my M.F.A in 2000 and was trying to build up steam for more grad…
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Even after he shot me, I still loved him and even after I was dead I wanted to be with him. So I forgave him once more and made the crucial decision to come back to earth as a dog. …
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Rothko explored horizons,/
blurring figure and ground/
by omitting the figure.
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A block after his first crime, he found a bookstore to commit another.
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Mama reads about UFOs in paperback books and newspapers with big cloudy pictures. Her girlfriends know about flying saucers, too. They get drunk at night when they are sitting all alone in their living rooms because they are divorced or married to men who
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sooner or later you realize
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so sassy so sassy so cool
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his dreams are filled / with aprons
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He's Eric Roberts, the stalker and eventual killer in Star '80.
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Threads of sadness in the hands, in the touch
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Lined up like ghosts on the front lawn, the second-hand porcelain fixtures had embarrassed her.
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Oh what fun they had riding that bike! What adventures! They went everywhere, in town and out.
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In the 15 years that I've worked at my local public library, I've learned that we librarians do plenty of things for our patrons that aren't in our job descriptions. After a patron asked me to change her flat tire, and another wanted to check out our pencil sharpener,…
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