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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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I
like this watch. It helps me
with
math; It makes me subtract
five
minutes. No batteries. It's
self-winding
if worn o..
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are
a legacy of New Orleans,
a
delicacy of days of cooking
slowly
on low heat, sweltering
in
a slinky black slip, cut ..
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I
am the grand shelf that rests above
a
slippery layer, perfectly poised
for
pictures to portray on a holiday
card,
of..
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Everyonelooks better
in
black and white.
Jump
scares can get you to second base
unless
you jump first.
Slime
..
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I
Googled a website that listed all my high school classmates, graduating class
1969. How can I still be alive? The memorial se..
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Dinner
at the diner with Dianne
was
kind of nice, no, definitely nice,
decidedly
nice, desperately, we tried
to
hold o..
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It would
have been better
had it
happened earlier. I
wasn't the
luckiest of fellows.
Better late
than never, comes
..
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It
was morning, and I was in a
thick pine forest
I’d
never seen before,
hopelessly lost, hunting
for
words and phra..
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