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I am one of 14.8 million Americans affected by depression or about 6.7% of the American population 16 and older. My episodes are cyclical and my first episode was at age 16. I assumed it was because my mother was sent to Auschwitz at 16 …
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We jam into the green tent as it begins to rain. His casket is covered with flowers and there is the picture you took of him, the day you climbed the fire tower from where you could see forever, past his smiling face the bars and a million changing leaves.His pregnant girl…
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And besides, since winter is coming, the dying clammy ground cherry makes a good Pilgrim hat for the fieldmouse. We found one the day after you left, at moonset, in the garage, building a nest with toilet paper in the air filter of the car.
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It is hunting season
in Jersey today.
They say
“There are too many deer
in Jersey today.”
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I have a ninety two percent rejection rate.
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And I watched,
from her warm bed,
the curtains dancing
in the window
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We shot out the windows of an abandoned building nearby so as to trick them into thinking we’d had snipers stationed in that building.
They shot at the abandoned building.
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What happens to a town when all of its songbirds go on strike?
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When you encounter a body laying on the road, drive over it.
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—but night does not reduce me to sleep / the dragging minutes keep awake / the dark that only opens its deep . . .
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from here with its brightly polished fingers spread easily amongst the cresting winds off the choppysky, circling the sun and sea splattered cliffs like a lone marble rolling down a smoothed out incline only to be turned invisibly over again as if…
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She thinks this is the place she dreamed
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I It's been there all week, Nose tucked into tail Comfort found between impact and asphalt II I'm still here logged out, still here Had it with the billboards the check engine light milemarkers... Just…
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hey, this is me who danced to the Doors
I thought I would surely dodge that bullet
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All along scared of the lovesickness finding me. I'm not proud of sending that sweet choir on its way without a kind word chopped into its begging cup. Who cares? I'm scared. The problem is this house; it's sad. I notice when someone floats…
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Sherry and I stand on the sidewalk on a sunny morning, watching her dog take a dump. She's new to the neighborhood and we've just introduced ourselves. The dog, a handsome poodle, does the deed efficiently. “See you later, Gloria!“ Sherry says…
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I got an email notification that your relationship status had changed to Single...
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This caused a problem when some raccoons, skunks and a fox were found lingering on and around the premises (separately, of course).
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LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHINGIf you think by your death you have left me alone, to pine, to regret, to watch cable tv, you're wrong.At bedtime I wear a new black lace gown,and arrange myself to advantageon sheets finer than any we shared.I've left the…
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She didn't care for the taste. Slightly salty and sweet at the same time, but she let him come in her mouth just the same
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Food is silly. Eating is silly. Yet the camaraderie of sharing a table is not silly. It is sacred. It becomes silly when the jello arrives.
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It rises rigid and plumb from its heavy base, the severity of line yielding to grace only at the throat where it crests into a subtly constrictive pinch.
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The first time I saw Little Man was on a bright, hot afternoon near the end of November, when the trains had just pulled into the fair grounds and the familiar smell of upturned turf and sun-basked animals returned to Sarasota.
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When he leans back from the telescope through which he had been looking, he sports a derby and a Hercule Poirot moustache.
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I don't see why you didn’t get a dozen while you were at it.
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We’ve clicked/
and tapped ‘til dawn/
and our exhaustion meet,
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Luke was in the gutter, his face in stagnant water littered with cigarette butts, condom wrappers, and green shards of glass from broken beer bottles. A man was kicking him in the face with a boot the size of a U-boat, over and over and over again. Blood
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don't look at me honey, I fell on the table,
my hair is on fire, my heart is unstable
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My supper consisted of no cheese
My marriage consisted of no violin
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