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Rays of Starlight
Rays of starlight, scattered far, Come, join together in the night, A beacon for the ones who are In search of strength or hope or light. Bring a light to those who mourn, In memory of the one they lost. And comfort those whose hearts are torn, All those who in some storm are…
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we pick out our plots one afternoon
i want so badly to wither away with you to get sick and slow we were red and crying five days apart and i know you don’t want to get old but my mother says time’s hand blows soft against lovers one day our bodies will cave in and i’ll fold myself into you to…
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A Ghost Wouldn’t Say That
One moonless Friday night in October, a man and a woman on a Harley came roaring up Illinois 440 with Spalding behind them and Colby City a few miles ahead. They passed the Christmas tree farm, they passed the hog market, they made the quick little S-curve without incident even though they’d never been on…
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damned girls
our mothers are given the hospital beds farthest from the other patients they say the nurses can tell, can figure out the damned girls from how the stomach molds around our damned bodies the indent we make around the belly button yes, we are life-sucking before we are life yes, our first words are short…
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The Misconception of Machiavelli
People fear Niccolò Machiavelli, but few love him. Consequently, the term ‘Machiavellian’ describes an individual who callously disregards morality on his quest to amass immense power. Immediately after publication, those who dared read his delightfully wicked masterpiece, The Prince, feared it would pervert the minds and morals of those in power. The vilest members of…
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Felicia and Her Sisters
Felicia the Cat was ten months old. She had brown and orange fur but she liked to wear clothes like people do. She lived all alone in a brick house. Felicia was sometimes sad because she got lonely and had nobody to play with or sleep with.One night, Felicia wished on a star for two…
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Beyoncé, William Carlos Williams, and Poetic Stamina
The Third Law of Thermodynamics states that Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade must be viewed as well as heard, or American culture as we know it will cease to exist. If you haven’t seen it, well, you’re breaking the law. But those of us in the clear can listen to the sixth season of the Dissect…
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The realization that
The realization that the Tao consists of both the vase, the air, the space between the walls and to the mouth will keep you safe and last for weeks, the Tao is too these weeks
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Naked Vicar
But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. Psalm 5:7 Ruth, Epiphany (Sunday, 6th January) She looked contemptuously at the portrait she had just finished; Mr E. A. Adonis had been dismissive and rude when she…
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Very much I need to be
Very much I need to be left alone, so I can figure out why no one speaks to me I’ve been learning to work out in my stomach what I cannot work out in my heart, or head I have transferred, I think all of my distress to my gut & my gut feels awful
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The Miracles of San Batista
One could argue that as a native Batistan my opinion of the events I am about to recount must necessarily be tainted by local prejudice and distorted by personal involvement. And, in a way, it would be true. But of one thing you can be sure of. I will tell you what happened as best…
