19733
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The thing in the bed trying to see over the enormity of the loud and chuckling wife to the face of the Dad wasn’t real. It wasn’t You because You weren’t alive. You were neither the woman you’ve finally, impossibly become, nor the dead girl on the highway
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124743
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I’ve paid my dues in this dimension/
so show me where the rest of them are
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122465
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There is an empty space,
between every note in rock 'n' roll,
where they have buried John Bonham,
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128463
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when the devil dies he divides enough evil for everybody
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28043
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I used to dream about flying over the ocean in nothing but my shirt,
now I dream about driving through fucking Kentucky.
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12061810
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At some point, indifference//
will swallow the small gasps./
The appalling will become the norm.
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137899
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I don't think dogs like to die with the pack.
The smell of them rotting brings trouble in the wild,
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1761810
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Perhaps archaeologists will unearth our bodies and miss our minds.
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1862014
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I visited you later that month, the tubes and lights and charts chronicling your descent. I held your hand in the brightness of that room, amazed by the translucence of your papery skin and the isobaric schema carrying blood here and there.
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1204118
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"I remember thinking, 'Good.'
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88055
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It is hunting season
in Jersey today.
They say
“There are too many deer
in Jersey today.”
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12262011
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The suite of dark rooms/
extends forever./
It’s no big deal.
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101494
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Oh, what jealousy does to us! What love does to the living!
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127076
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Two weeks after All Souls’ Day, he trudges through the overgrown pasture behind the farmhouse, his head bent, intent on his footing, a shovel his walking stick.
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77800
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I could reach out
and grab this world
by the p...
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