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Olson has a viola.Josie's father bought her an oboe.The strings are a mixof Bing and Bob and Marilyn.The tympany is enough for mebut not enough for Ra..
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What
was is washed away -
drowned
teddy bears and high chairs;
dreams
are for the days before
carnage
made dreams
t..
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My
eyes and my hands betray me.
I
don’t reach far enough
to
grasp my keys, and my watch
usually
slips and drops ..
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I
quit my job as a rodeo rider,
busting
broncs every day,
subjecting
stallions to the iron
of
my will, and I joined a ..
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(Voyager 1, launchedin 1977is 15 billion milesfrom Earth)
This
hard-backed crab-like creature
gropes
blindly through an
icy dark..
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I
reach into my jean’s pocket
and
pull out my miniature microscope
to
examine closely the old oak tree
that
grow..
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Without
the cello, the violin
has
no base to build on.
Without
a foundation, the building
will
collapse, the..
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one breath
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Harold
Hess thinks to himself,
today
is the last day
to do all those last
day things.
He
buys the gold Rolex he ..
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Reginald
is the
raindrop
that
clings
to
the uppermost reaches
of
the
driver’s side window,
an
e..
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