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Copernicus spied/a new centrifugal spin:/Bosch saw what he meant.

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She lifts her head, nose heavenward. There’s a wet spot on my dress from our lovemaking, its aroma as heady as Claudine’s bouillabaisse. I hope she smells it.

Repetitions

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The couple sit at an outside table at McDonalds.

But Not For Me

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So when they shake a finger, when they yell, she remembers Miss Whalen saying, “It’s not for keeps.”

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Pork Rinds

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we’ll never win/ the ongoing battle with dirt.

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Her mother was worried.

Empty Spaces

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Art lives.

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Straight Out of the Can

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My other brother, Mike, has been camping out with the Carter boys down the street. For breakfast, he had beans, straight out of a can, and they were the best thing he ever ate. “These are the best,” he told them. “The best beans?” Joe, t

Dementia

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They should have shot me when I turned 80, a bullet right between my sunken eyes.

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i learned all

Boringer's Theory

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If Simpkin believed in reincarnation, which he did not, as he was a philosopher, not a religious fanatic, he might have thought he was Boringer reincarnated.

TRANSLITERALIZATION

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His white shirt gleams

Guns in the House

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Jack would have felt betrayed, and my parents alarmed, had they ever suspected me of playing with Jack's guns, but I found the temptation overwhelming.

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Remembering Daffodils

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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.

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No fuckin' way, Maude. Excuse me, but you know I can't stand that bag of wind. No way.

Father Dunne's School for Wayward Boys #6

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i stained his hockey sheets right over the red wings