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this reaching, this striving to love like it's there becoming something we need.
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Only last Friday, he was introduced/
around, smiling, healthy,/
a fine young man.
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Your tunamelt cadence / Sank me to ocean floors
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One rainy day I walked to an out-of-the-way section of town where the buildings were old, and the streets were cobblestone.
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We watched kids tweeze snapping turtles out of the park grass. They dropped them into a styrophoam cup and called it the snap turtle home. When they grow up they will bite your arms off, their father said laughing.
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The bird sat there some time. Several minutes. My wife and I grabbed out i-Pads and took pictures.
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We perform our chosen duty— naming/
beauties and atrocities within
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One moustache hair at moustache level on a filmy bathroom mirror. A red velvet spread on a big round bed. Dear Ma: We saw a bearded lady.
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She is too stylish to be crazy, is what the migrant probably thinks. And he's right.
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Throw them up there but try to make it look tidy. Try to become a little bit paranoid, just enough that you slightly overestimate how much they think of you at all.
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Somehow, I have your body,
but you’ve gone missing.
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nothing can stop a group of genteel Southern women from a card game, and divine intervention makes one's participation in such an event quite worthwhile
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Neglected long enough, uncalled for/
by the shrinking language of the day,//
my words abandon me.
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He had wanted to lick lucidity, curl his tongue and take it back inside his mouth, curl it all the way down his throat, let it bulge inside his neck, feel it snake into his stomach, and come out into the netherworlds with warmth and satisfaction.
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It’s a little known fact that eels are often lost in translation – only the spotted variety, not the striped or the common and certainly not the electric.... I think about that lovely hippie girl and her knowledge of eels, sometimes.
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The next time I see you, I’m going to pretend you’re a stranger, and that I’m meeting you for the first time.
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Some time ago, I began to write you letters with the idea of helping your newspaper become a more complete map of our little shared world.
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are you like the rest of us and you disagree with war yes i said i disagree with war and he said only one man agrees with war but he won t go to the war
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Its colour a spectral silver shimmered in the pale afternoon sunlight which glinted on its small red and blue insignia so far from home. The landing stage of the unmanned Viking spacecraft had broken away from the main section on schedule before starting its descent through…
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Through feeling her life story,
I understood mine, more,
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These days I wear a flag pin.
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The dog awakens at the sound of a petal falling, sure that barbarians are at the gate. She opens wide her yellow teeth.
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I ran into Tanya at “Pearl's” — maybe it was still called “Big Balls” — over in the Stockyards (Ft. Worth) in '72 and right up front we both admitted to loving honky-tonks and “done me wrong” songs which is why we were there…
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The manic,/
looking on, finds and polishes//
the sharp green shard and bottle cap
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The story goes that the night before I was born my dad had a terrible headache.
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his perfect ivory
voice telling me
i brush too hard.
…as if he cared
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People usually take fonts for granted.
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