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The Boys The Boys, they call my brothers in the neighborhood, or Those Boys. The Taylor Boys. Sometimes, Mom calls them Thing One and Thing Two, like in The Cat in the Hat. Those bad boys. Nobody has brothers like my brothers, kicked off the school bus, barred…
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1912179
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I have been mother
to a hundred soldiers,
holding their hands
barely knowing
their names
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110000
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Tent City has gone quiet. There is a deadline. I heard it on the news. I’ve never thought about the word before. How in this place it means what it means.
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148164
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Belief is a hammer, like saying the mind is a piece of iron.
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3154820
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Written for the City of Lost Children Challenge:
it's just a bomb, silly
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116982
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Running into the fire, the smoke and the chaos;
selfless first responders, innocent bystanders,
and dedicated runners
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