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I’m busy as a bus.Ten hours on the telephone, research resources,school staff, counsel clients.Some sleep.Then invite Lorraine downtown, the lov..
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Across the track, a rail yard workerbig innocent bear of a guy, beerbelly, embraces his girl. She’sa conductor, comes up to that belly,reaches a..
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I’ve seen it myself sometimes.Shooting pool with a Marine I liked, a buddy.He’s drunk. Always had a booze problemand women had disappointe..
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I spoke with two people at the party Saturday.A young police officer, short-haired, fit,chiseled face who had two young children.He felt constrained b..
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Come May. Come what may.The most significant thing todayfirst Monday in Maymy wife six months pregnant with twinssays she’s scared what we&rsquo..
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Sometimes we like to do something for the storywe’ll tell afterwards. Buy a ’58 Pontiac, climba mountain in the dark. Lamar tells dirty jo..
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Tonight I stayed at work until 7:00.It was dark when I locked the front doors.Winter approaches again, soon the great coathuddled like a rug around me..
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Late April and onlycoltsfoot--Tussilago farfara--breaking leaf litter.Our daffodils, peonies and crocusesare also making signs.April is the cruelest m..
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You can acknowledge the emptiness at the core of your beingor go crazy when the world goes crazy.The numbers of us overwhelm, an impending tsunami, my..
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Should I become a middle school math or English teacher?Leave my bed early in the morning and return with test papers to grade.With what authority wil..
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