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It's so fragile anything can kill it— one cold night, the smoking chimney too far off in the distance, another drought, everyone at the table either drunk or estranged; but like a fisted bud, it rides out even the deluge …
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You should be calling 911
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"Make a wish," she whispered.
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So I’ll wait for her to clear all burden from her head and feel the ocean move us. Stand up, walk over to me and kiss me as we glided through open water.
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the smell of the small cedar chips burning in the fireplace
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I saw life and beauty choking
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They line the bar beside me.
Talking about themselves and estranged children,
while rubbing necks and wrists,
searching for the pulse.
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You wake, search rooms for sounds of need.
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I am far from home, wherever that is.
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When I leave to go outside, I have decisions to make. If I turn right and walk, cross the
street, I could get hit by a car. If I turn left, walk and cross the street, I could get hit by a bus. If I make it to the subway station, take the rail, I coul
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like old discarded snake skin,
dry and coarse after the bite...
immortally tortured by broken glass bottles.
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His nervous cackle makes me sick - Oh, if only - Times were different - That knife - Would fit so nicely in his back
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He says the medic held a needle/said, “This will hurt,”/and pierced his lung
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Let the silence be everything
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I knew you when you were a child.
When monsters terrorized your room
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