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As if I should have expected better of it.
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You shine brightest under a starlit skyThe moon reflects your beautyAs the wind sings your name sweetlyIt was under the heavens that we promised togetherThat I'll hold your hand and you'll be mine forever... You glow brightest when the sun is at its highestYour radiant…
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Man wolfing banana in his car on University Place
Chinese girl walks by
and his head follows her all the way
until his head is twisted 180 degrees
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My sister walked in the room while I read Ginsberg / reciting the lines to Jaweh & Allah Battle to myself /sweating in the heat contour of my ugly body on the bed /
the room the stench of rottenhumanasscracksemen
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Our love used to be so artless, /
unstained by a knowingness /
that perceives time in minutes
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it is heavier than it looks with edges smoothed by the passage of time
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A stroll along the golf course rim reveals Polo-logoed litter. Could this be what they mean by white trash?
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Little Dave, I thought--what's he doin' drinking coffee? Then I figured out he must have been 18 if I was twenty. He could drink coffee if he wanted.
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The lace fell through the fingers, wrinkled and nimble they had become too used to avoiding the finite objects in life which needed attention. The white cotton sat loosely on her shoulders, the collar exposed the skin which had become dry and her shoulder
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Azure shook her head and stood to her feet. Staring at her wrists, she knew that she would have to endure this until they found help.
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And I'm usually soft-spoken.
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...an aggregation of physical nature with the abstraction of 'applicabilty,' more than just a word, but a magickal spell that conjures technology out of ecology.
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Like gymnastics, shoplifting is a discipline of youth.
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*a drunk amid worldly boundaries*
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and as in real life,
occasionally
sneezed on.
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I’m not ready for football. I’m not ready for it, but I live in a southern town that worships at its altar more devoutly than those suicidal beauties in James Wright’s great poem.
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Connecting the dots the past two weeks, I’ve concluded you’re pregnant again.
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It must have been twenty years before I first heard Willie Nelson’s voice without the accompaniment of my mother’s crying. She liked to listen to country music on the radio while she cleaned dishes, ironed shirts, watered plants, and whatever else the hou
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It begins with his positioning.
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The little notice talked its trash, a J’accuse!
“Posted: For Non-Payment of Dues.”
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John 1.46 "Berkeley! Can anything good come from there?" Bilbo asked. "Come and see," said the ring.
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A shoelace should know its place in the world.
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The duty of a student
can be summed up in a sentence
To benefit the race of man
with thoughtful independence
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Humberto Figueroa Urquiza woke agitated and unsure why.
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Ralph Simpson looked as though he wouldn't last through the weekend. His skin, yellowing from the cirrhosis, covered his hands tightly enough so that the veins looked like they would burst from the pressure.
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He was almost dying when I reached the hospital. I walked past the open automatic sliding doors into the lobby, almost vacant except a few people milling around, the nurses fighting sleep behind the desks while waiting for their shift to end.
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My first year I hated how big and unruly the plants got.
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“We’re never going to get off the treadmill of paying ever-higher taxes," I said, "unless we get some creative suggestions from a professional bisexual tax advisor.”
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