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How many exceptional people/
does it take to change a light bulb?
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When the storm broke, my late aunt's dog
fetched five favourite bones from his corner, and arranged a crude protective circle.
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We've talked often about that night, where six hours of our life disappeared, about our shared experience, and the big question of why.
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Spying is a different concern. Privacy also. I feel there is a loss of privacy just in believing or realizing it is possible; our forebears did not experience loss of privacy digitally, perhaps in another way.
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That year, if you asked Al, was truly the best of times, the worst of times.
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He had the cannonball head of Hemingway, the stump neck, sloping shoulders and barrel chest.
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Major Chaos came here one of those hot days. I was washing the floor, wearing old clothes, when he knocked on my door. Since I don’t have many visits, I let him in. At first, he seemed like a soldier, but upon reflection I realized he was a big green fr
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Orchids strewn over the floor...
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"Everything except food and sex."
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Polylinguists lash me
with tongues I cannot conjugate
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I should have buried him on the saddleback and kept my mouth shut. I'll murder the bastard who did it.
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I worry about my garden. I know there are larger concerns lurking in the stale shadows than my limp little flowers, things more pressing to the meeting of minds than thick lush green leaves might bring, but this is my own greenish way of …
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"Why didn't you tell me it was Halloween?" he asked. She shook her head. The doorbell rang.
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The handsome man at the opposite table swivels his head at the tall cool slim blonde entering the breakfast cafe. The ordinary woman sitting with him adjusts her chair accordingly. She pretends to ignore her husband's distraction, smoothes her hair, licks her…
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I didn’t understand, you said with a hoot, that it was hard to get hard when my ass was soft.
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I'd rather slit my wrists with a Triscuit...
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Arthur farts. Pandemonium. Miss O'Kelly shouts, “Quiet!” 32 nine year-olds freeze. “Close your books, fold your hands on your desk, put your heads down.” Obedience. Silence. Until…
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I was at the doctor's office, having my blood drawn. I was talking to the medical assistant. She was tying off my arm to tap my vein. She was almost 8 months pregnant with a girl, though her belly stuck out straight in front of her enough to be told she was having a boy.…
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True story, I swear to God.
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I turn up the music and slip into drone, rock it like a tunnel in canary. When that does not erase his face, I cup my breast with one hand and let my hair fall.
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Every day the trains transported the young and successful and the not so young and less successful who belonged to the five buildings.
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The sun is going to slice your goddamn face open.
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Moans and whispers woke me. I rubbed crust from my eyes and glanced at the G.I. Joe clock on my nightstand. 9:36. I pulled the covers back and stumbled out of my room. The living room light was on. Father Osborne's black suit coat was draped over the back of the couch. He…
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She scrambles the eggs while the baby howls at her knees. To drown out the racket, she hums as she jabs her fork into the yolks. She enjoys the way they spill their yellow color and swirl into the whites. She matches her tune to the schook, schook, schook of the…
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Sometimes we hurt ourselves, we scratch ourselves, we bleed — for a simple joy... All I wanted to do was to find the poplar again — the tree of my young arms, of my budding breasts. My fingers used to circle around its bold and vigorous waist, but in the…
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A lifeboat came by in the night,
And I finally saw we were sinking.
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Jesus is for sale. But he’s heavy.
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You were given blame for action as experience by cause and effect now. If you take apart blame and even forgiveness is too rigid. She thinks of that purpose as to give men sexual destiny.
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To find myself in a straight relationship which challenges my communications skills and tries my patience while improving my status among my peers and family.
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