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I asked the hospice nurse about maggots.
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For some, a vertical pattern will evoke prison bars, for others, product bar codes.
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She was still alive when I started to write the story of her life, called Lucy's Story, about her recovery from catnip, but it was not the real story. In the fake story, she took the subway to A.A.
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After we have sex I slip cash into your purse, just a few bucks, without you knowing. You're not a whore, but I'd like to buy you lunch sometime without having to be there.
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When the compost thaws the past oozes out into the present....
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Write a poem in which your father is a dog and you are his leash.
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It shouldn’t take that long to count/
to six but when the six are cats, arithmetic/
assumes Heisenbergian properties/
as the objects counted defy the count.
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The drinking will continue/
until morale improves
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Our beautiful currencies and stamps/
disappear into the digital vortex/
of accelerated appetites.
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Uncounted hens and piglets/
die at my demand. The killing floor//
runs red for me. I am/
monstrous to creatures small and great,
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My heart hurts as I miss you here./This was your intention, I know./
And nor is my reaction unique.
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In this episode the children in the classroom will all wear boxes over their heads and will search the room with their hands. Their hands will be hands that have been reconnected. Their hands will wear seams as sleeves and curse in red. The hands that…
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As soon as she left, I sat down at the computer. Booted up. Read my e-mail, then looked at pictures of bare-naked ladies.
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I combed the ocean for my minnows while Hattie's giraffes multiplied like spider plants, all yellow and brown on the dry yellow savanna, propelled by their gauche necks, awkward in their bodies, bodies rooted to the feet of the humming planet.
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When the whistle drops, do not take any guff.
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I staggered away in the storm
tears frozen to my cheeks.
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and the mass exceeds the buoyancy/
and gravity pulls you back,
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12. Paper Wings (Gillian Welch)
This one's really depressing. Maybe you shouldn't listen to it so much.
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I have been mother
to a hundred soldiers,
holding their hands
barely knowing
their names
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"I called him a fucking loser and left."
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i never much liked Elvis
never did then never do now
he was no Kris Kristofferson
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This year we have no need of spring!
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The woman carried a wooden log which was her husband into the house.
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It's July, which, if you work in a public library, means that the Summer Reading Club is in full swing. The SRC used to be just for kids, to motivate them to read when school wasn't in session. But in recent years many libraries have expanded the program to include…
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“Easter’s coming,” my wife says. “Should I dress as a bunny or a chicken?” she asks. She means for the costume party.
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She could live there forever, in that smokey memory...
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Solitude is such an excellent alternative to suicide.
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