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How to Stop Sleeping

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perch your anger and remorse like weighty buzzards in a willow

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the first time

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no, the first kiss didn’t matter. hardly remembered, really. some boy in kindergarten or first grade, lip-smackers and vaseline, maybe a playground, under the risers at lunch. but i remember the first time my second nature, my sloppy flirtations, threaded a boy’s oblivion. side-swiped a consciousness. the orange lamplight on washington street during kick the [...]

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half my hands

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Says–not said–because that improper grammar is embedded in half my DNA– that the disrespect I have for her was given to me by my father. She denies this half of me. But here, this woman, my mother, says these words to me on mother’s day. The day of thanks we give to her for life [...]

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