982 9 9
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How many exceptional people/
does it take to change a light bulb?
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80232
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A young woman in shorts
removes her sunglasses,
putting them on top of her head
in order to study the little girl
sitting on her father’s lap
on the bus.
“I want to get me one of those,”
she says, with her dark eyes
smiling.
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10742
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Five billion years ago, if anyone / can imagine such a number, / so many zeros, everything / begins, slowly, to contract. As in labor,
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91411
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The clouds cried more than silver tears,
this time.
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87132
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We continue,/Held beyond all surface
Liking it still/And each other/Often surprised:/Like finding garden flowers/No one planted/In summer bloom
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3381815
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a force field is not up
between us
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3311
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Lately a coyote has been coming around during the night. It's been waking me up. I read something once about coyotes possessing the souls of those you've lost. It sure is a peculiar sound they make, and it's right outside my…
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110044
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I try to enjoy my bookbut the mannequins keep tapping at the windowWhen I look up they vanish Outsidefibreglass clouds are kept in placeby invisible wires——Sometimes the mannequins …
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3521
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I am so close to
creation I can see the
goose-bumps on her flesh.
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89733
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my pilgrim tongue
on the map of
your body
seeks sanctuary
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5044
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But cats know better and just stare off
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125864
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It’s all a matter of warped mirrors. As in the multi-mirrored passage I stood before as a boy
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80044
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Friends of the bride
feeling out of place
like a church key
at a wedding
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103933
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Hollow as spit over rock
Was the mood in the library...
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2911
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Hickory dickery dock
A mouse grew a big cock
He had taken a pill
Flew over a hill
And started talking like a jock
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