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coughing retching talking singing yowling
I am I? Who is this I. This supposed person. The wolf-girl yips and whinges. I just got back from AWP. It was as ever blindingly astonishing and also just plain exhausting. I got to spend time with...
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a valentine from vita
I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless, nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple, desperate,...
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in which I do not grade the papers
1. The sun is finally out. 2. It’s bloody cold. 3. I woke up with light in my face, smiling, thinking “sunny day” rhymes with “bonne idée”! and I am remaining perversely cheerful despite the facts...
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There have been real betrayals of women by other women—by women who supposedly shared a similar feminist spirit and vision and by women whom one once called friends. Women have also held unrealistic...
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This time my dad asks me about a divorced female friend, whether she is dating. But his voice is so suspicious I wearily turn on him and decide to have it out for once, instead of ignoring his hints,...
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and a white blue-bell
But riotous as were those days, the great love of all our lives was getting to be conscious. Anne and I were always together. We wanted to walk about with our arms round each other’s waists, but our...
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the eye of the wax doll
“Sometimes still it hits me, usually around 3 am. I wake up sick and can’t believe that what I did was so bad I deserved to be ditched that hard.”
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