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...clash of gulls
wend upwards, disappearing into grey
night's high tide recedes
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everything moved in circles
like the music, the booze and the drugs
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The bus is late; the papers disappear.
The china breaks, and the suit does not fit.
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"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is…
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Who does that besides Kafka,
Arreola, and Steven Wright?
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I was a disposable disaster at first, a thousand Light years ago. We sail the seas we're given, and Like all of you I did my best to survive , but that doesn't mean we get To survive it like you. Our course may have blown us Completely…
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I want nothing to do with anyone,
other than doing nothing with you.
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He felt sick at heart, as if he'd just been told he'd been fired from a job to which he'd devoted 60 years of his professional life. And for no good reason; the profession no longer existed. It had slipped into obsolescence, like blacksmithing at the beginning of the…
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The plumber has three lives left or else he is already dead.
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He says he’ll have a Bud, too. The woman taps her pencil on her pad, looks at the kid and says, “When?”
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Mickey Mouse mini-nukes are often placed in children's school lunch boxes for cooling sandwiches, though an accidental meltdown could cause the food to become dangerously hot in both senses of the term.
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When the sun saw what they was doin’, it slipped behind a sexy cloud and turned a blind eye.
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When he saw me, he jumped faster and faster, wild like something rabid.
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How a breeze feels evaporating sweat on neck and forearms.
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Her hands are swift and supple as swallows, bouncing off the keyboard in rapid-fire constellations of notes, because she's playing Bach's Concerto no.1 in D Minor, which is busy and prodigal and all over the place. She is Polina Olegovna Osetinskaya, a beautiful Russian…
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It’s that, really, nothing else could be
Sleep and Poetry, Mr. Keats
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"I wanted to see cities whose names sounded like sad sighs...Oaxaca, Guanajuato, Reynosa, Camargo..."
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When I stumbled upon evidence that the man I'd loved and trusted for 20 years had a secret girlfriend for the past 10 of those years, he tried to deny it.“We never had sex!” he told me. And I believed him. For about two minutes.“You never…
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No one knows that, while the ex-Area 51 guy delivered his rant, Art Bell left the booth for a Diet Coke.
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The tadpoles flipped on the brown mud bottom. She dipped one out and held it near, seeing it in her belly, shaping arms and feet and a small, blond head. She set it back and stood, breasts out, arms up. The ducks in the weed, eyes hard like hungry boys, waited for bread.…
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All else is unmoved/
and relentless in its indifference.
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He deplaned Air France flight 9 from JFK to Charles de Gaulle airport at quarter past noon.
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So where does that leave me, Roscoe Loomis wondered, dismounting his silver, aluminum steed in his sweat-soaked, spandex outfit, and, clearing the saliva from his beard he walked over, checked and smiled, learning that the bike track's timing unit showed it was Roscoe's…
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I worry for the daffodils/
and there optimistic yellow bursts./
I worry for the over-eager clover,//
prodigious green on crepe myrtles,/
even for the early green of nut grass.
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Like many little towns, ours has an archive. It is a catalog of everything that happens.
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When you bring information, it does not arrive.
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My student assistant was a comely young woman. A freckle faced blonde. She was from Ohio.
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