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What
you do
on an inventory crew
is
count cases
then
multiply.
7
x 24 units
per
case is 168,
record it; not ..
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On
the map it’s marked as Caney Creek
in
neat black letters. On the ground it’s white,
not
so neat, swampland ..
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The
sunflowers’ faces turn
toward
the sun
as
if the sun had beckoned.
Having begun
as
food in a bird fe..
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They’re
dark, mostly, the hairs
on
the first knuckle of my fingers;
some
have grayed, some
have
become twisted and are..
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They
said their goodbyes, then he
rode
away on his Mustang. (Well,
not
actually on but in, as this was
1980,
and he..
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What
would you have me do?
I
can’t fix it. I can’t mend it.
I
am in no way responsible for
the
outcome of ..
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Another morning at the breakfast table
and again I
have a choice to make -
use
a cloth napkin or one from the pile
of
d..
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Church
was a place made of stained glass
and
bricks, long hard benches called pews,
and hymnals
hung from theirwooden
hol..
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As
the son of an engineer, I know the end
of
the line when I see it; that wasn't it.
My
father worked the line for years u..
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I
Its
forearm-size body slithers
out
of the marsh and onto
dry
land, its heavy fanged head
following
its forked h..
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