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Educationexpand_moreAll the bears in the zoo look pathetic. Their eyes glazed, bodies lethargic.
Think how you move, how a room changes with your smallest breath.
All right. We are perfect. Tomorrow we will make a million dollars.
Charlie wasn’t Lena’s first love, but he counted on being her last.
I tell my sister what I didn’t tell my father, I love you. Please, don’t die.
They cut you off, let fall your hammered silver bracelets to the sand.
The dove calls from far away in itself to the hush of the morning
The laughter rises like the roar of a train as the men leap to their feet.
I am visited daily by unrelenting spirits evoking my accumulated flaws.
The strange man expected to be picked up by aliens during the eclipse.
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.
Everyone has something lodged and jittering inside them.
Buster’s reasons for looking after Marco weren’t entirely altruistic.
The first rule of the house is that everything must be even stevens.
He bound me to blind obedience, for which I’d shown a propensity.
We press closer to look at a picture: a handcuffed boy leaning toward us.
My closet was a repository of foibles and fetishes, an archive of my life history.
The writer was there ahead of the world. And that was a great moment . . .
Professor Flacks could tell you everything about James Joyce.
The air has grown inside me. It’s become a sanctuary.
Kansas is a cold dessert, I say. No, Kansas is a tongue depressor, he says.
My “lonelymaking.” Also known as my horrible secret, continent-wide.
Your words will strike her heart like Saint Teresa’s flaming arrow.
Dan Gerber reads poems of boyhood, and from the end of his mother’s life.
A simple line of raging wet nearby, how as a kid I pictured the Nile.
I will tell you about the sick. They are ruthless, they are like Attila.
I will tell you about the sick. They are ruthless, they are like Attila.
I repeated the name thoughtfully, then said no, I didn’t think I knew her.
All I could focus on was if he was going to ask me to date him.
The draft of ten handwritten pages would have to be cut back to five.
