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Me: In my orange hazmat, the one that makes my eyes look intensely blue.Him: His flexi-human-hamster ball. Fun, but a bit informal for a first date, I think.We're outside because doorways are not easy for him. After some impromptu rounds of bumper balls on the square, he…
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One by one our friends are kicking the bucket. Let's get together. It's now or never, we figure.
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Things don’t happen here, life is so boring in this little Irish town.
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My name's Barbara and don't call me Barbie if you want to be my friend.
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Have you ever spent twilight in a old pasture?
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Love free of independence is a savage, hungry beast
Phantoms grasping, sweating, gasping 'till her mind could not be freed
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I always step around his mess...
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You know, my mother was afraid that I can no longer resist. She was absolutely right: My four sisters have all passed away before the summer shows its fruit. It was hard "said my mother”, not to see my flowers bloom. I, the calf of my mother,I came…
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Purple not rain! I guess Prince left. It is said that Prince owned the aquifer under Jordan, Minnesota, and that he sold it but to whom? And moved to Canada—
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At the graveyard, the leaves had been raked into loose array....
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Paris is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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Yellow Pages season is on us now, and Jimmy's drivin' a contract route. He'll head out to the San Joaquin where they print, and load ‘em in the back of his Tundra with the high side walls until the whole damned rig sags low,
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"I’d rather move a word around a page
than raise a glass or pass a plate
or work a room immune to poetry."
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“How’s the Pinto running?” Sean says. It’s been awhile. Maybe Darcy won’t remember him.
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he considers the swirl of galaxies/
with their black hole hearts,
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Shakespeare had red hair / Van Gogh never painted a nude
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Endurance wears the soul thin.//
The hour to succumb ticks ever closer.
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The cloudless sky/
amplifies the incompletion,/
clarifies the imperfections/
of the night’s normalcy-
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I watch the seagulls making their quacking noises
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When Uncle Dan got sent to the Alzheimer's ward, the ladies licked their lips. Fresh meat.
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I don't know what happened to all the men. Used to wonder if they killed them all.
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It's so far to get to where we aren't inthe way of someone's destructive progress.I'm only walking in my own gardensnow, but the big blue house is like an emptiedout envelope. I guess that makes this themissing letter. I don't know your heart's newaddress, but I once…
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Most of the boys I pretended to marry thought my classroom seductions were funny, but there is a chance that one of the boys turned violent against me.
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When we take Vengeance,/
shave and shower him,/
deodorize and scent him,/
clothe him in a starched shirt
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For the new year, I´ve given up palm oil.
Made shopping a whole lot harder.
Damn orangutans tugging at my conscience.
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The dog is reading. This morning, as every morning, the book is open in front of him. Well before his master's rise, he had already read the moon then dawn and the clouds. Now the slippers, these that walk here and there. Followed by coffee and the pages that turn. A little…
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How could a leaf be an accident?
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Why is there a heavy weight and a chain and a padlock in her woodstove? Because, she says to herself, slightly hysterically, because this is yet another thing that you must carry. Why? Because life is full of chains and padlocks and heavy weights. Hea
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I kept my seat. Passengers packed in the aisle weren't moving and until they were, neither was I.
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We argue on the way down. We bicker on the walk to the bistro. I get coffee and croissants at the bar and bring them back to our table, and she is still talking, proving me wrong, when I return.
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