1542 17 7
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Since the divorce had gone final, the matter settled once and for all, he’d taken to a masochistic bingo of sorts.
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1359 21 7
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We got married in a hospital. My bride had her appendix out the day before our wedding, so we decided to tie the knot in her room at Hoover Memorial.
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933 17 9
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...a session/
of hide and seek/
among the syllables.
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1219 18 9
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feathered waves of tangerine peach
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1022 12 10
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I. Two cancer scares since June, one came up nothing the other nothing much. (My breasts are dense: I know all about moles— little bastards don't have to get sun to go nuts.) My manuscript travels ether to…
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1122 13 10
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You should never have believed your daddy when he said a man with half a dog was better off than a man with no dog at all.
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1086 15 10
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when the mirror cracks
my eyes won't cry
it's a perfectly
respectable (romance)
between her and i
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1146 4 4
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The only silver lining? The man in my life and I are in this together.
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1050 17 9
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Perhaps they serve/
a God’s twisted will//
as they accelerate extinctions
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1065 13 10
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the last, best//
analgesic--/
guaranteed
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1128 11 10
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Someone will labor to keep it alive/
although the body will want but/
to return to random particles
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951 13 10
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Tentacles hold fast to the small/
thrashing thing they believe is true//
which, devoured, once crushed/
completely still, turns into shit,
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992 10 11
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I fall in love with a second cousin at the picnic. I make sure I sit next to her.
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1249 10 8
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Satchmo sings a love song over the sound system. People read books, tap keyboards, drink coffee, eat cake. In Barnes & Noble—more a coffee shop these days than a bookstore—I am thinking about my dad and his stomach cancer.The terror he…
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118 14 10
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Celia was born with another baby's head atop her head and everyone in the village thought her cursed. It was because Celia's mother had been too young to be intimate with a man, twelve only, and the man, important in the village,…
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684 12 9
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The murder of two teens late one humid night on a tiny rural Virginia island brings a dark, malignant mystery edging into the village known as Leicester Court House.
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1744 12 7
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She is unsure if it will work, despite all her reading of physics and flying carpets and propeller planes. The practicalities of aerodynamics in application remain to be tested.
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1219 19 9
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I know this: the sky is vast here//
and the sun unforgiving/
to any architecture not the best
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1159 11 8
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“The beginning was good. That’s what he likes. The moment when you’re driving in the open air and your hair is flying and your skirt is whipping up around your knees, and he’s smoking, of all things, and happy and looking at you."
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877 18 9
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Each day, I lose more words-/
nouns and verbs- but especially//
proper names. People and places
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1286 12 9
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My man wears chartreuse shoes.!
He wears chartreuse shoes like a new king
right there on Main St.!
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1052 17 9
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let’s press our words into the clay/
in language so completely dead/
we have to re-imagine it.
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1148 13 10
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the ugliness will not be denied
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288 19 10
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1191 13 10
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1748 10 7
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I don't remember much before my brother moved out, but one thing that stands out in my mind was the bathroom we shared. He'd pull a stool up to…
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1172 10 10
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As if to ask if I'm okay, as if to ask aren't we the same two on this wet December morning as ever, as yesterday, a month ago even, she shoots me a look as I stand by the bed, then her sane mild brown eyes…
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1507 17 9
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“I found a recipe on the net and now my hair smells of pumpkin.”
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1062 9 11
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The brain taints everything it brings to us/
with its limited apparatus, its precepts,//
all the things it thinks it knows.
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1363 19 10
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A constellation appears in the shape of Van Gogh’s missing ear.
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