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It was,
ostensibly, the Buffalo Road, but the combination of budgetary constraints and
general disinterest had ensured that Route 219 was no mor..
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Don’t give me some dark,
inscrutable muse
With faux chaste coyness and
misleading smiles;
Give me a memory that I can use
To ..
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The collie, fur grayed and
patchy, lopes away from his house,
Ostensibly bound for nowhere in
particular,
Knowing only that it is that
t..
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This most silent of silent
nights
Was no different from any which
had come before it,
Nothing at all to mark it as
extraordinary or..
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After so long we have returned
To reclaim all that we once spurned.
We cannot change what might have been;
Come meet me in the cool green..
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If you put the question to, say, one Ben Haramed,
He would, as befits a wily old desert jackal,
Find such notions of faith and fidelity qui..
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We’d stumbled upon it, playing on
a channel heretofore unknown to us,
Almost as if the remote, in a
final, desperate attempt
To esca..
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I shared a beer and sympathy
with a gnarled, obsolete man
Whose wizened visage spoke of
unwise choices.
He spoke wistfully (though
ap..
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There is, I admit, no small
attraction in the possession
Of the wand--but invariably that
becomes obsession,
For magic bewitches all i..
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She had always smiled.
Getting a smile out of his mother was no mean feat; not that she was
dour or stern, exactly, but it wouldn’t b..
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