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I am a housekeeper at a private women's college in upstate New York.
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No canopic jars and fine Egyptian cotton.
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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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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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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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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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Being simple like this, knowing a thing is done by doing.
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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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The rain is no terrible epitaph
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To be honest, I've always wanted to be black
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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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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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We two have this entire lifetime left, so let's waste it . . . .
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Something about her eyes...
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and light bleeds into the darkness
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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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Eighteen-layered canvases were prized by both of them, regardless of whose work appeared on top.
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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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Some of them are notorious tweakers. Nobody epitomizes the cowboy-outlaw biker more than the ironworkers, who are wired on Black Beauties they sell on breaks.
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I screwed my courage to the sticking point and asked him if he had shot down any Japanese airplanes. He grinned at me. “One,” he said.
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Poor kid. She didn't mean to leave my business card on her kitchen counter next to the telephone. It was a mistake.
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1321248
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On finding out that gonads are part of the female anatomy as well.
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Dear Friends: Thank you for all your newsy newsletters bragging about your children's accomplishments and your exotic travels this year. We, too, have had a wonderful year. Our son, Rick, was arrested for possession of cocaine but…
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Warning: some of this is true, some of this is not.
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. . . quit being so rigid, open up to the pasta.
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I tell my woman friend the new man's penis is too large. I tell her once. She asks me later whether I asked about it at the doctor's—large cock, she calls it, and I say I told the doctor my boyfriend's in a wheelchair.
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It takes strength to know when not to be strong.
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Back then we used to dance slowly to Sam Cooke's “You Send Me” on your parquet floors, whispering about planting our vegetable garden, planning to seed the lawn with centipede grass, promising to count all the red cars that came down the street.
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