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Life Choicesexpand_moreIt takes a strong woman to make any sort of success in the West.
Joanie’s face was something she’d borrowed from Miró, from Picasso.
His looks were Russian. He was surrounded by mystery.
When he kisses me, my heart flutters in my chest like swarming bees.
What humanity needed was that gravity-defying miracle, the bird.
Sing so dogs bark, oxen bolt. Sing so a girl walks out on her lover.
The tomatoes weren’t there. She looked again at the ground.
After nearly a year of dating, I never stopped thinking of that other boy.
If mine, then, is a religious Offence, leave it to religious Punishments.
This would not be a wooing meal. I was cooking my man into submission.
She often feels something kinetic between herself and younger men.
“As your brother, I ask you, how did you get that scar on your face?”
There would be no one to live for; she would live for herself.
“The secret to happiness is not wanting,” Lars told the Buddha.
He glowered even as a little child. Maybe because he has your bad eyes.
He was trying to seduce me with his history, which was mine as well.
For a month after 9/11 Bella wept through all her appointments.
Her bra is black, her breasts full and white. There is too much flesh.
Take this man, Stepan. His deep mellow voice soars in my heart.
We see how tired you are as you lean on your rifle or your shovel.
The people flocked to witness the execution of Ja’afar and his kinsmen.
Young people have a gift for reviving freshness of language.
A charmed sequence of words. The jangle. The strum.
If you let me live, I will buy you beer whenever I see you in town.
At a red light he touches his cheek. The stubbly skin is sensitive, febrile.
Surely a million mothers and school teachers can’t be entirely wrong.
No parent has yet been born who can save a child from childhood.
We were young and lived wild lives in the delightful city of our sojourn.
Her sentiments maudlin, malaise dripped like a fever from her pores.
I try to imagine him wanting only a Toblerone bar for his birthday.
