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Fortunately, when the bird hits the sliding glass doors in our den, I know what to do.
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His toenails were so long they curled under and into the black leathery pads of his feet. They lightly clacked on our linoleum, tap shoes made of thick petrified roots. He didn't seem to mind.
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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.
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Every dive bar has a Max. Max is an elderly man. He wears a dented ball cap. He sits at the end of the bar, right along where it curves and then slams into the wall. You may find it cliché, but when Max enters the room, the patrons actually announce, “
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I recognized the smile. It was a “I’ve got you where I want you now,” smile.
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7:23. The grid abandons us.
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Stalks were scythed to submission one stroke at a time
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She was as distant as Mao, someone I never met, but whom everyone carried in their eyes,
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We are a funny story, my brother and I. Twins of Africa in a kitchen on wheels the size of a cupboard, we serve tourists baguettes and pain au chocolat, in the gardens adjoining the square where the tricoteuses did their knitting, heads were chopped and..
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He needed an editor for his Yale dissertation, the shifting borders between criminal justice and the internet. But the sex was inevitable. He was six two. I was blonde. I don’t think we liked each other very much, but that wasn’t important.
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Their wedding gift to us was a night out with them and tonight was the night. But, you see, Rali and Kate had so much more to offer us than we could ever think to register for. They were giving us an exclusive guide on how to live as an up and coming coup
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No canopic jars and fine Egyptian cotton.
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Opposite the foothills, on the field's southern edge, was a stand of old eucalyptus trees, each one a gnarled sentry with bark like burnt skin peeling from its trunk.
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I am a housekeeper at a private women's college in upstate New York.
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Rarely is Quay Street so clean,
Monday in rain,
Neactain’s ticking over with
Slow jazz and crosswords,
Stout and steaming anoraks.
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To be honest, I've always wanted to be black
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The rain is no terrible epitaph
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Being simple like this, knowing a thing is done by doing.
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When I came back home, after coming down with polio, everything had changed for me. I'd been gone for forty-five long days and nights. But it was Halloween, a time very nearly sacred for children in the Midwest, and it brought out the charity of the who
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I told her I didn't love her. She said love wasn't important; she wanted to marry a man she could respect.
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We two have this entire lifetime left, so let's waste it . . . .
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Something about her eyes...
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I see my siblings once a year when we all show up, as if required by law, to eat Thanksgiving dinner. It is apparent with every bite how much they hate each other.
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Polite society will cheer/
as another body is discovered//
and disposed of. The cheers/
will drown out the gasps
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and light bleeds into the darkness
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Eighteen-layered canvases were prized by both of them, regardless of whose work appeared on top.
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A bedridden ward of the state,/
warehoused in a nursing home,/
unable to drive to the liquor store/
for whiskey and cigarettes,
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Something about the Garden of Eden. That it isn't really a garden, and I'm not even sure what Eden means.
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