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“My mom would go crazy.
I can’t read all these sex poems. We’re Christian.”
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I can’t read all these sex poems. We’re Christian.”
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“If I don’t get a job,
it’s Wharton mba. Or teach English in Japan.”
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it’s Wharton mba. Or teach English in Japan.”
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“the problem might be she calls herself “she” ...”
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“1980, Leah and Sophie voted for Reagan.
My father wouldn't speak to them for six months.”
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My father wouldn't speak to them for six months.”
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“The world's repeatedly saved by people whether right or wrong just goddammit not wanting to get into it.”
― Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice
― Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice
“You made your students write stories about happiness and they were, you said, the worst stories of the year.”
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“She was tired of sad modern endings.
She was tired of modern sadness and ennui.
She narrated things calmly and swiftly
like and easy-running stream”
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She was tired of modern sadness and ennui.
She narrated things calmly and swiftly
like and easy-running stream”
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“Fatigue, swollen ankles, the midwife said.
The worst discomforts of pregnancy.
I wrote those down. But she’s wrong:
self-pity. Strange dreams, she said.
No dreams.”
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The worst discomforts of pregnancy.
I wrote those down. But she’s wrong:
self-pity. Strange dreams, she said.
No dreams.”
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“I'm six. 1974. Somebody's New York apartment,
white rug, many people. They say “schmatte.” They say
“schmooze,” they say “schwarze.” They wear
bead necklaces, interesting belts, plastic white
sunglasses propped on their heads. Nixon's
resigning on black-and-white TV. He says
nobody gave him anything except a dog.”
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white rug, many people. They say “schmatte.” They say
“schmooze,” they say “schwarze.” They wear
bead necklaces, interesting belts, plastic white
sunglasses propped on their heads. Nixon's
resigning on black-and-white TV. He says
nobody gave him anything except a dog.”
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“You may want to find a way to suggest
ironic distance between the poet and speaker.”
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ironic distance between the poet and speaker.”
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“whacking the ground, like a wife
pounding her pillow, alone all night.”
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pounding her pillow, alone all night.”
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“I wanted,”
she counts on her fingers, performing
the sitcom of her tragedy, “Tribeca loft,
expense account, designer clothes so haute
they don’t look it, my very own Tesla, summer
home in the Hamptons I’m too busy to use.”
“You wanted money,” says Justin.
Brianna: “It went down with the towers.”
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she counts on her fingers, performing
the sitcom of her tragedy, “Tribeca loft,
expense account, designer clothes so haute
they don’t look it, my very own Tesla, summer
home in the Hamptons I’m too busy to use.”
“You wanted money,” says Justin.
Brianna: “It went down with the towers.”
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“Brianna says. “You’re
a good professor.” She condescends through tears.”
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a good professor.” She condescends through tears.”
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“The girl grew and grew, her mother couldn’t stop it; it terrorized.”
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