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While you can,/
find the beautiful
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26132013
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I heard today about your friend
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My father failed in business in the 1950's when Dutch Elm Disease killed the elm trees in our Kansas town. He owned a fabric store on a brick street lined on both sides by elms, the doomed trees that transformed every Midwestern town into a magical kingdom and sidewalks and…
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21212116
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Highway 45N cost me four dogs when I was growing up. Actually, having our backyard abut the highway was the real problem. It got to be where I was afraid to get too attached. We lost Nicky,…
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19902016
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Just bring me his head, that cerebral kiln of hot, ruddy verbiage and cadence.
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21211414
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No one means to go that way, on an errand to the mall....
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18652915
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Even solid seeming concrete creeps/
in time to form the faint smile of deflection./
A marble rolls along the catenary grin.
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19072417
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He wore his hip in his hips, his lipsShe wanted to know if he would lick the edgesWhen he pulled the coffee cup from his mouthA bit of foam clung to his moustacheShe watched it there, wondering if he wouldTwirl it off with his fingersOr lick it, his tongue darting out like…
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On the eve of celebrating their patron saint at the public house, one of his particularly cabbaged mates was bold enough to ask him about his cranial deformity.
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26723116
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I don’t remember the name of the boy in high school
or if I cried at his funeral
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24832516
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The last time they made love she could feel the hint of pain and loss which would become her.
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18322417
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His head was usually full of ah ha!, a luminescence that folded around obstacles like smoke.
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2414514
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Jake remembers that Amy told him once that she thought that somehow he would always be a part of her life. That was before she went to Spain and married an American bull fighter.
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22534112
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Within seconds, I strip her free of all that she wears. Her toes are polished the color of plump pink tulips.
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217797
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Should have washed our hands, we thought after, licking sugar-spit and dirt.
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40802215
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Dear End of the World. We're having a party. Stop by if you're in the neighborhood.
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19182018
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or the voice that wants/
to be inscribed/
forgets the sounds
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25493216
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you had to actually cross a damn street, vacate your brain, and say, "you two hellions are going to combust from all this torrid public defilement."
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19642416
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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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25602514
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I haven’t made the headlines yet. Maybe I never will. In a city like this, it probably takes more than this to get the helicopters in the air.
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3591816
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The first time I see her, she is slouched in a tire swing, pushing off with one foot and dragging the other beneath a dying pecan tree that probably hasn't made a nut in 20 years.
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6781313
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Wait until you are home alone at last. Put the dog outside. Close the cat in the room down the hall, where you can't hear her mew to be let out. Turn off the television. Switch off any devices playing music. Take the phone off the hook. Turn your cell ph
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1. It uncurls in your hand like an autumn leaf but fails to recall your happiness. 2. A triangle is the sum of its angles a priori. 3. Leaning on the lens of psychotropics leaves you with restless legs and akithisia. 4. Body…
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16922913
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With such demeaning precarity, I can’t read/
anything more than a thousand words
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20121613
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no one likes a bitchy cowboyhike up yer britchespull yer brim down'nshut up and ridestop making petsout of peevesand idolsout of gossipinsteadmake a hobbyout of yer horseand fer godsakesseason that saddle
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So, as the lines on my face grow more pronounced, the lines on my finger prints are fading away?
All I can say is that it's a damn shame it's not the other way around.
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