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There's the way you see lines of the palm cut short by a scar there on the hand where once a kitchen knife may have slipped. He used to tell her he would see her without so much travel, odds and ends, or his adventures. A day ahead, a week later. A month goes by. …
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“I have a theory,” she said on their first date, which was at an Indian restaurant where the music was a lovely singsong but the chef seemed enraged as he clapped a ball of dough between his hands, then threw it into the flames. And her date, whom she…
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Two Roman busts have come down to us, both copies of supposed earlier Greek originals, from the 4th. century BC.
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Because it seems never to be beginning, always picking up in the middle with it’s long resonant tones, which themselves begin as if they’ve always been. Maybe that’s why we love old, sacred music. And by we I, of course, mean my two-year-old Charlie and m
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A pair of snakes contemplates gulping a pair of frogs.
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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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Thankfully I don't have to share my Jim Beam with the cat.
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They say I am filthy. On this high pillar I perch like a stuffed avian relic, flightless, no prey. The horizon before me is broken by scuff and foreign tongue, by atomized evil. Pleas, and there are many, are answered by the only prayer I know, the one prayer, which…
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The washing machine at home was broken. It was an old leaky Maytag. A discouraging mess—twisted panties, sky-blue jeans, and an old lover or two or three floating downstream (the reverse of spawning salmon). Each man was slightly drowned,…
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Nearly everyone knows of that celebrated poet’s story coming down to us from classical Greek mythology: the tragic tale of Orpheus and his descent into the underworld to rescue his beloved Eurydice. Well, there’s a much lesser known story of a legendary 7
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We call this place "The Nazi Clothing Store" because:
You VILL NOT use cell phones!
You VILL NOT buy zings off za mannequin till Tuesday (an even zen vee shall see...YA?).
You VILL ask to be rung up at the time of purchase after standing at
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I heard the little young dark-haired girl
The one who came looking for Flint the first night
He moved in – I heard her crying muffled sobs
Down in the parking lot behind our place
And Flint was trying to comfort her
But she was really letting it
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Gino Something
His name was Gino. I’ll leave out the last name, not that I think it matters anymore. He came into my dad’s gas station on the near North side of Chicago to have work done on his fancy car. I was still a teenager. I accidental
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“I got your red snapper, right here”
The waiter said. He grabbed his crotch
“What kind of restaurant is this?”
Asked the senior citizen
“Yeah, come and get it, if you want it so bad”
Said the waiter, pulling off his white apron
And tossing
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