January 2011
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Dorothy Parker, "Fable"
Oh, there once was a lady, and so I’ve been told, Whose lover grew weary, whose lover grew cold. “My child,” he remarked, “though our episode ends, In the manner of men, I suggest we be friends.” And the truest of friends ever after they were- Oh, they lied in their teeth when they told me of her!
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Paul Baribeau - “Thunder Road”
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Kim Addonizio, "You Don't Know What Love Is"
You don’t know what love is but you know how to raise it in me like a dead girl winched up from a river. How to wash off the sludge, the stench of our past. How to start clean. This love even sits up and blinks; amazed, she takes a few shaky steps. Any day now she’ll try to eat solid food. She’ll want to get into a fast car, one low to the ground, and drive to some cinderblock shithole in...
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Kim Addonizio, "You Don't Know What Love Is"
You don’t know what love is but you know how to raise it in me like a dead girl winched up from a river. How to wash off the sludge, the stench of our past. How to start clean. This love even sits up and blinks; amazed, she takes a few shaky steps. Any day now she’ll try to eat solid food. She’ll want to get into a fast car, one low to the ground, and drive to some cinderblock shithole in...
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Louise Glück, "Hesitate to Call"
Lived to see you throwing Me aside. That fought Like netted fish inside me. Saw you throbbing In my syrups. Saw you sleep. And lived to see That all flushed down The refuse. Done? It lives in me. You live in me. Malignant. Love, you ever want me, don’t.
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The Halo Benders - “Surfers Haze”
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Sidney Hall, Jr. "Something About The Wind"
There’s something about the wind coming off the ocean, the waves washing the rocks that makes a person who is quickly annoyed by cigarette smoke and men putting nails into roofs forgetful and unconcerned. If you are easily disturbed you need to get an ocean.
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Sidney Hall, Jr. "Something About The Wind"
There’s something about the wind coming off the ocean, the waves washing the rocks that makes a person who is quickly annoyed by cigarette smoke and men putting nails into roofs forgetful and unconcerned. If you are easily disturbed you need to get an ocean.
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
– Oscar Wilde
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
– Oscar Wilde
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