886 20 12
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I say her- it might be him-/
but from a distance I supply the details I prefer.
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1270 15 12
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You anchor the real
You make love to the true
I am bound to you in consecration
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214 17 10
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Whenever my mother’s will-to-live wavered and her hand reached out for the electric fence, my ash would whisper, “Live, live.”
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1679 20 12
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...I pray for the animal souls I have taken -- panther, gazelle, hyena, vulture...
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1609 10 10
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... and you can’t balance your checkbook or divide a three-way bill in a restaurant but you can still recite all the sixteen ways of SHAUN CASSIDY TELLS: 16 WAYS TO TURN ME ON!
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2484 12 7
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It's an easy thing to take out an eye.
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1086 13 12
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My eyes hold my mother. It's not easy being human she tells me. She always told me. Sure, but the stories are lovely. We all know that. We generate the tales, tell the tales, kiss our children. Live on in their eyes, though, don't…
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1456 17 10
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Ancestry.com The Liverpool census in 1851 lists him:Thirteen years old, Irish. Occupation: beggar. Only that. I will do more for him.I will see him in torn jacket and too-short pants singing all day of the fields, the cliffs,…
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338 13 11
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fallen leaves, broken limbs fron wounded trees
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1204 7 10
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From room to room, neither closet nor drawer contained any remnant of pleasant memory.
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1974 18 9
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I thought of driving over there across town, steering with buttered hands.
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1240 14 5
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She's the one you remember when there's talk of the blow.
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1499 20 13
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She offers the girl a seat, asks her to stay for a minute, but she can’t, she just came by to say hello, and don’t you like my new raincoat?
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927 18 12
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the epiphany at the mast at midnight is not the same at dawn
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1173 21 11
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In a time of drought,/
the sound of rain is sweet/
and joyful music.
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1183 12 12
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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
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1412 13 13
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We honor fierce, quick, cunning/
thought-in-action types
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1475 20 11
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...he thought often of the rollicking waves, of being pulled under, of being weightless and senseless...
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1914 23 10
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'Hey, are you supposed to be from a cartoon or something?' said the Grim Reaper. I had to take a big drink before I could reply. I didn't know what to say, so I said 'Could I see your watch, please?' He looked down my dress while he thought about it.
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1002 21 11
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" trout hovered in a sun-dappled pool"
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1442 12 12
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you were very very small, you were everso small, you were like – the tiniest creature, hopping about on one leg
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1402 19 12
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A screaming comes across the brain
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1687 15 13
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I ask because she's the animal person, not me. She understands animal behavior.
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1397 19 11
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It's been sixteen days since I spoke with another soul. I don't mind much, but I know enough about people to know most would think I'm mighty odd. Muriel, for example. She'd be pissed as all get out. …
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1261 16 12
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So I went to see the wrinkled
and rumpled poet, who insisted
on reading from memory, stumbling
through his sheaf of poems.
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1097 14 12
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You call your wife. “Do you see what I see?” you ask.
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1250 12 13
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The mulch vendor is a crook but we have no choice, not with the shortage of soil. Have to guard the stuff, put alarm wires around the garden, leave a friend in charge to spot the thieves if you go away overnight. If you…
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1941 19 14
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I’m in the Grand Central Station bar-- the one at the top of the stairs-- waiting for my husband to enter so I can watch him. The bar is crowded, everyone getting in that last beer before heading back to whiney children and tired spouses.
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1736 16 13
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We soft boiled the free range egg, cracked it, and were surprised to find nothing in it.
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1245 13 12
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// opening act: van featuring balloon featuring drugs
// headliner: lubv ya babe
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