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Leave us to hide our sundials in our caves— / discard our scrolls that guide no more, / to time our nights to learn if we can grieve / —we’ve too much noise or less than we can hear . . .
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Against//
the mysteries and the dark/
it illuminates and shapes
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A Parody of Keats I stood at silent thought upon a clump Of nettles, swaying in the od'rous air- That blew from my own trousers, by the dump; That it had not blown more lent me despair. The dulcet horn gave melody, rare…
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I wonder if she is my real mother, if I could get one of those paternity tests and find out if she’s my real mother and if the guy she told me was my father was really my father. I can’t remember him very well, just a lot of him screaming and hollering an
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the pollen of your kisses and the shouts of your love shaking the sky
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He hunched low and forward on his bike, his 14-year old self, flying down the dusty back roads of this Great Midwestern Land, his head full of the smell of the algebraic girl he sat behind in math class just hours ago.
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His will is whole, inviolate,
and wholly full of possibility.
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Every time I squished an ant with my finger, I felt a piece of me loosen and chisel off.
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When hadrons collide they’re not always Swiss. They may be cheese or neutral but that isn’t of my concern.
Look at them, touch them, feel them, the quirks of the antiquarks, masonic mesons, baron baryon.
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The Karaoke Girls are not appreciated. Not nearly enough and not often enough.
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Never touch David Letterman's neck!
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When the truth is spoken, we don’t know
Where to look, as if we only know someone
Has gotten away with something big
Or stolen someone’s heart, knowing how easy
It was, how fragile, how true to itself
So open and weightless, without guile
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I was supposed to write a history of the old world and expose the selfish ones who use their best kept love for evil against the good little witches of childhood, but it made no sense to me to go after them in that obvious a way. They…
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Forgive the doctor/
his hypocrisy -
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I know she's a dog person, as she owns one.
“No, my asshole ex-boyfriend wanted one and then he left me with it.” she admits, then adds,
“I don't even like dogs. All dogs are needy.”
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"Nice one, sir," the toilet said.
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The Operations Management Guru was visiting the twenty-fourth floor on Tuesday, and everyone at the company was wicked with fear.
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Forget the salt erasure of Carthage,/
all the Meso-American artifacts/
smelted to float the Armada
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We didn't wear shoes in the summer, except for Sunday school and church. The soles of our feet were black and tough as shoe leather.
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“You look so … distinguished.
My!” she said.
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—Mazel tov, schmazel tov!
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A human being is here. He doesn't disappear
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... he could feel the pointed picket spears.
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He reveled in the chase, giddy when just out of arm’s reach. When to catch him, that was the question.
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Eat blueberries every day and you'll live to be a 92 year old mogul. Really.
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The day the thinking factory imploded everyone for miles knew there was a problem. The sound of the walls crumbling in upon themselves was heard for miles, or perhaps it wasn't.
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