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It’s perfect nonsense to suggest
that, be it venal or mortal,
It announces itself with fanfare
and hullabaloo,
All but taking out a
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The only question was whether they would kill me or not:
All their fumbling and grappling with hooks and buttons,
Hurried and unfocused,..
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They’d signed on for richer or
poorer, in sickness and in health,
Though they’d never dreamed that
poor and sick
Would arrive ..
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We need more Martians, they nattered at me all the time,
More monsters--people like to be scared, as if those callow
youngsters,
Growing up..
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We’d known each other forever, or all the time that counted,
anyways,
Together from kindergarten on, riding the same bus
..
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She
has maintained a steadfast and prudent distance
From
places she would have to fabricate answers to tiresome inquiries:
The
ageless Re..
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I’d heard a story in that proverbial once upon a time
(Though its origins are hazy, at best, to me now:
Perhaps something my son ..
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He wears shorts that merit the term,
old leather Converse All-Stars
Cracked and faded as the berm of the
back roads in this o..
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He will allow, if you press him on the point,
That it can be a hard go sometimes;
Holsteins have no
concept of weekends, he will say,
Or..
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She came to her particular station in life in some
proverbial once upon a time, in the realm of some ancient king--perhaps one of
the tr..
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