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• Full adult

  August 3, 2013

  1.We rarely get ready for work at the same timeso I don't hear her think out loudabout Vice Presidents and Controllersother jobs in other hospitalsstaff, rivals, and strategy.between manage and executethere's a long stretch of full adultShe puts on her suit -she wears full suits now, with impecca...

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• In the spring after the drought

  May 26, 2013

  1.I built a swing setit stands stocky with invisible swingsunder a tree tall with dead branchesas bugs flit down in the yard light time passes, time has passedthere are trees to cut down the cottonwood survivors rustle, "Gone, gone..." my dear daughter contemplates collegemy sweet son passes from...

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• Hibernation

  December 26, 2012

  1. They live near food pecans and black walnuts their little mouths must be hideous, black, intestines tannedfrom bitter shells, picked and chewed to reach the sweet meat winter nests, knots in the branches We cut one down, once an overcoat of string and sticks not like a burrow the squirrel is t...

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• No hiding it from the family

  December 3, 2012

  1. "When I was your age, eleven, there weren't any video games at all. None. What would you have done then?" "When you were alive, books were like video games. ""No, they were just books. And what do you mean, 'When you were alive'?""When you were alive..." And with that, I know that he identifie...

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• Maestro

  September 5, 2012

  1.You have to find the words," he says "you can't just use logic"(because if the lawyer rips one link, the whole chain falls)he pushes me aside, puts his fingers on separate clauses in the long contract plays them like a piano he doesn't hum the melody ahead of the notesas he scrawls the score in...

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• Alzheimer’s

  July 3, 2012

  1.Remember the name of the Presidentbecause they always ask you thatand the date - month, day, and yearwrite it beforehand, between your knucklesif you need.If they hold up some pencils, ask you to count backwards, some other math problemconcentrate like a motherf____rit's a testyou won't get ano...

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• Grounded

  May 28, 2012

  Having been deprived of the use of your game consolehandheld game player computer privileges and television you retreat to your roomread Calvin and Hobbes comic books come downstairs, aggrieveddefending your wounded honor with great dramatic flairListen, It was your chocolate milkall over the TV ...

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• … cold, and alone.

  February 24, 2012

  1. "October is gone... ," I write, and a year passes, and then three more months. We used to drive Girl to work at the horse barn at seven-thirty every Saturday morning, but now she drives herself. T and I sleep until Boy wakes us and demands breakfast. It takes two tries for Girl to…

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• Lost

  January 17, 2012

  1. It's been cold in the house She wants to sleep with the windows open this has no symbolic meaning her metabolism has changed advances that I can't understand fortunately, it's been a warm winterbut survival in my surroundings feels a little too Soviet I have technology that I couldn't have ima...

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