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But I wasn't getting out...
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She pulls shame from pockets, tosses it into the brackish air.
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This is where they show the best movies.
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"I'll bet the weather is rather pleasant in Guantanamo this time of year. A black hood will actually go nicely with virtually anything in my wardrobe," I thought as I turned away from the counter.
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Indulging my occasional craving for something sweet.
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In ESL, I learned that I was not like the kids on the Brady Bunch. I was hispanic. It took me three weeks to remember that. HIS-PAN-IC.
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Her fingers hold the white curtains and the light blue drapes. Her hand is steady. Her heart is not.
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"Lloyd’s football scholarship from Duke was forfeited like an expensive watch, pawned, never to be retrieved."
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Then there was Alyce, from your mother’s lesbian moment. Would you count her?
Probably not.
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The old hiker plants his feet firmly in the craggy ground. He musters up gravity, at least, all that gravity is willing to give him. This defiance amuses Notus. He lets the old hiker think he's won.
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Three steps to freedom...
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Mama loves birds but is afraid to fly.
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large metal bolts sunk into the pink stones of the patio held our table in place half in the shade and half out. on one side, kurt, john, edgar and david enjoyed the cool umbrage of the awning. on the other, charles, henry, jack and i squinted through the
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As brave as a deciduous tree in winter, /
with only its trembling to give, I live. /
Leaves, ordinary, thin, brown, die;
dying, enrich the earth; I?
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Palm prints in my skull, pained mouth
With a chance of sunshine
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Leon has been buying abandoned storage units. I name them as they come in: The homeless unit; the punk rock/junkie unit; the Mexican unit; the PFLAG unit. They are what I have come to call “The tomb of uncompleted expectations.”
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Shake the sweaty hand that feeds you raspberry balsamic chicken breasts
and olive oil drizzled asparagus spears.
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The overstuffed chair would tell Charlie he was a smart man when he pulled me, a married woman, onto his lap. The coffee table resented the cat. It whispered that our good days were over. It encouraged us, then turned away. The big bay window never lost the…
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We became The World Famous Shadow Puppet Theater because we thought that the best way to become world famous was to act as though we already were.
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They asked each other at Court-suggested AA meetings: What can Texas do but throw us in jails already packed with low-life scum?
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So you gaze
at a far off haze,
sinner by omission
in Bermuda
shorts
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Mass media thought control, from consumer advertising to political sloganeering, is creating a new generation of irrational thinkers. If this trend continues, one day soon we may find ourselves under the control of some genius gone haywire.
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“The elephant is on fire!”
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. . . he wants to organize society into its most efficient configuration with everyone thinking alike and willingly cooperating. Only then, he believes, can humanity reach its full potential.
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It was only a small matter of time before you started to show up in my words like clues in tiny fingernail cups to their innermost meaning and wishes. You were already prancing and parading behind…
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When the full moon changes trajectory and comes close it pushes you to different gravitational fields
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We stop at Jack’s roadhouse so the Old Man can “wet his whistle,” as he puts it. Mam is having a baby, but we don’t know its identity. She sips at a glass of Seven-Up with a cherry floating in the ice, and the Old Man says, “Ah, that’s grand,” after takin
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Soul, being, essence, fire, dream, auburn, scent, inhumanity, starry, ripe, free, heaven, transcend, memory, butterfly, chrysalis, please, mad, ecology, teach, tear, lachrymose, cry, frown, smile, love, thought, potential, season, poetry, verse. Transubstantiate,…
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He wonders if she'll look at him.
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