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Walking to class, Paula routinely fishes around in her purse to be sure the condom she thinks of as a close friend, even naming it Rhonda, is in there to help her avoid a pregnancy yet, even so, Paula admits that sometimes she daydreams in that boring economics class,…
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I had felt suddenly lighter and next thing I knew I was watching Leonard Tucker and Sister William from somewhere near the ceiling. I saw myself, too, at my desk, holding my songbook out in front of me like everyone else.
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r luv iz gud enuf 4 a tat2
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What I wanted was long-in-the-sheets sex...
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There is no hate in his eyes...
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....the first/
in a long history of indignities.
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What's missing from their bodies is nothing compared to what's missing in their heads. One man in particular, now almost 80. Wakes to the smell of napalm, cigarette smoke, gasoline. Is he still feverish? Will the fungus rot his foot? But he remembers he
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I had told myself that I would not cry. That I would hold on to my anger so tightly, there would be no space for pity.
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You say boxer briefs, I say pillbox hats
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Together / they peeled and fed each other pink fruit, / ordered expensive pink beef, went on / vacations and viewed pink sunsets / on paradise beaches.
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Does flight exhilarate the sparrows
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What scares her about libraries are unshelved books, the ones you thumb through while you are waiting for the elevator, because you realize that there are too many books in the world and you are holding that particular book only because it is lost.
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I spend my time sitting on the back step—poison oak reddening my arm—under the eaves, waiting to escape.
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There are simply no more words around me quite full enough yet to sort of cancel outthese more than emptied ones. I'm sorry. There might be some forever fields left ofcrowded purple flowers if you look hard enough but no mountain's majestyto…
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I don't think dogs like to die with the pack.
The smell of them rotting brings trouble in the wild,
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One by one I lost my desires.
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Talking about a Friend Over a Cup or Two of Coffee “Their first fight was over school lunches. Free school lunches. She taught Kindergarten in a public special ed center for emotionally disturbed children. The…
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You might as well be the man on the moon. Once touching your face was quotidian. When I tallied each day's pleasures, you, in this room or that, counted too much for me, I think. I stopped record keeping. I'm …
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I don't believe in symbols
but there's a hole
in my living room window
in the shape of a bird
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After each piece cancelled the other
the generals folded up their checkerboards,
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Later I take his hand, and I lead him up the stairs. I want to show him something, I say.
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I see those shoes and the status they confer, and I know what they cost.
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the making by taking away
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lost in a taxi cab, 4:30 am
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Instead of julienning the fava beans you could, instead, slip your linen shirt off your pink shoulders and hang it on a tree branch like a white flag yelling “I don’t want to fight anymore, goddamit, this aftenoon is beautiful.”
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What you see us doing here is not so much, andall we are not being there isn't either. Our kissing mouths may not always be singing, but we are constantly praying for you, and for more rain or less rain, rivers as the situation warrants. Don't…
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