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The Muse//has used/ me up
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SHE put her suitcase on his threshold and pulled the old bell. He opened the door:"Mariline ...""Father ..."She had met him at her mother's funeral some months before. Holding his frail and docile arm, she had confined all thoughts within a wreath in an effort to keep her…
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still to early to dodge leaping bodies on misty roads at night
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Playing dead was a lot like dying might be… if you can imagine it. My eyes were open and I feigned death as well as ever a man has played the part of a corpse.
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The girls had gathered in the hall. Carefully dressed and made up, they appeared as rows of variegated artworks in front of the audience. In their eyes the lights flickered like small luminous petals. Celia sat in the middle row. The spirit was exactly right. Her decision…
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Mothers and sons and war, an old story...
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I spent twelve years in Buffalo one winter lying on a mattress looking out the window. The breakup with J filled my teeth with blood, which I mistook for antifreeze.
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In my 14 to 15 year old life in the late 50s I worked as a clean-up boy in the neighborhood butcher shop up on 5th. Ave.,
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I haven't felt my soul leave my body
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Sandbled, undertaker
birds arrive
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My name is Love
and I want to go home.
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a girl in a red cap
flashes by
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Tempered in lightning and thunderstorms, when I was young those storms fascinated me and how to prove my smarts from time to time.One, one-thousand, two. We only have so much time.Sitting with my feet in the sand on the beach with ghost crabs everywhere at night,…
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The squirrels love the sun
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As a boy Edward had stayed in the confessional several times in a row. The priest was drunk and couldn't tell it was the same kid over and over. The tiny door slid open…”Scobbity bobbity…tell me your sins…” Edward confessed what he thought were sins, then said…
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That picture sits by my bed. We danced at night near the great bonfire we had when I was thirteen, the night we burned twelve feet of shrubs, bramble and saplings after digging and clearing the lake to the core bottom with the yellow Caterpillar bulldozers.The shell…
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1. In a room beyond the bridge Cortez watched the spiders. The little ones wept over their mother who was fingering the dust on the sill for a last remaining morsel of dried blood in the chaff. They knew what had to happen. It was…
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"As soon as you're born, they make you feel small."--John LennonI cannot do anything about how beautiful you are, my sour flower, but I can tell you this much: Joni Mitchell is better than all the cowards in the world. They all chose to somehow…
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sometimes i have to be in the other room
just so i can breathe easy away from you.
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Already past the harbinger of yellow crocus
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I have shellfish and sailfish
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with so many thick curtains hung out to shroud/ so many unlit eyes, Night you’d think could spare/ a small few for our diversion . . .
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I turned to ask, “What is going on? Don't you remember me? “ But she was gone
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You clever code-breaker, subtle lifter of veils.
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Some misadventures of band members have caused show postponements
And cancellations during the band's 50-year-long career
The start of a European tour was postponed in 1998
When one of them fell off a ladder in his home
But the band didn’t
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TW: Self-harm. I wanted to write a mental health essay that wasn't all rah! rah! and with as little sentimentality as possible. Out of everything I've published, I've gotten the most feedback from this--people telling me it helped them understand a loved one better, etc.…
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a poem that unwrapped itself so casually I tucked it under my tongue, just to make sure
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