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Letting your hair down as an antidote for befuddlement . . .
Or trying to write a memoir . . .
Or booking a junket to Legoland . . .
Like using stagehands . . . as stand-ins . . .
Giving head to a cavalcade of pranksters in a box of Wheaties . . .
Then feeling overwhelmed by neologisms . . .
At the slightest provocation . . .
Divulging past transgressions to Facebook friends . . .
Then wiping the slate clean . . . and raising your hand . . .

Martina Hoogland Ivanow

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In a gravy boat on the high seas . . .
Cutting corners . . .
And you thought the interim sideman would fill the bill? . . .
He can't even hit a high C . . .
What . . . now you're reconsidering your offer? . . .
A no-holds-barred relationship? . . .
Why not? . . .
Playing the field subliminally . . .
Too much riding on it? . . .
Not unlike the trust of a junkyard dog . . .
Drop back, regroup, and buy the season ticket, already . . .
Full-throttle engagement . . .
What better way . . . to say what you want to say? . . .
Of course you have! . . .
You wrote the book . . . and the study guide . . .
The scene closes with Biff reading the email . . .

Alice Carolina Duda and Agnieszka Kwiatkowska

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The disingenuousness of last minute players . . .
And late starters . . .
And those on the cusp . . .
Return receipt requested . . .
Parlaying the obvious . . . because . . . just because . . .
Looking back to go forward . . .
Like Casals at 96, I'm making progress . . .
Awakened by recalls . . . and by the nudge of those
with the chorus . . . announcing the place
(as Oliver) . . . of your one wild and precious life . . .

Deborah Turbeville

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The preponderance of memory . . . saddlebagged . . .
Aspirations aside . . .
The scene with Jane at the crossroads . . .
Smile though your heart . . .
Weighing heavily . . .
Why Charlie Chaplin? . . .
He wrote the music, didn't he? . . .
The scorekeepers have left the building . . .
Fast forward, please . . . to the ending . . .
Telling yourself these are words . . . only words . . .

Mia Wasikowska in Jane Eyre (2011)

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Stabilized by the red wand . . . the red magic wand . . .
Silencio! . . .
And the floating trumpet in Mulholland Drive . . .
Beats per second . . . (she counted) . . . beats per second . . .
Your footnote going on and on . . .
Everybody's gotta learn sometime . . .
What can you say when you're put on hold? . . .
Rethinking the configuration . . . the operating system . . .
the avenue of days . . .
The apparent movement of texts below the surface . . .
After the fact, yes? . . .
Grabbed by the realization that we all hide behind something . . .
Buying what we sell . . .
Who lives in the makeshift dwellings of your dreams? . . .
The makeshift dwellings of your past tense? . . .
A rudimentary offer . . . and you're out the door . . .
Out! . . . Out! . . . Out! . . .
She prefers being confused to patronized . . .
The red lipstick of herself . . .
Awakened in the middle of the night . . . again . . .
Of course, you could always ditch the gamer . . . cash out . . . whenever . . .

Laura Harring, David Lynch, Naomi Watts

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The eternal sunshine of book samples from Amazon . . .
And the pleasures of con-ca-te-na-tion . . .
Enter therapist - a Jungian archetype with snow-capped Montblanc . . .
Emailing corrections . . . Cate not Kate . . .
Foundering or floundering? . . .
Laying or lying? . . .
There are only semantic differences . . .
Collecting dust . . . and examples of misanthropes . . .
And photos by FRAN-CES-CA (Woodman) . . .
Who tweaked the world, and helped us see . . .
c u @ 10 . . . in racing snowshoes . . .
If nothing . . . invigorating . . .
Busily recruiting attention . . .
As if the key were outside the glass . . .
Outside the (Silent Snow, Secret Snow) globe . . .
A Glass cover by Nico Muhly . . .
And you will have time left on the meter . . . if that matters . . .

Dree Hemingway

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And now . . . a break in the action . . .
Choreographed as mirror-image . . .
Against Cat Stevens's Peace Train . . .
And you return to your former self . . . backing in through the door . . .
Having been pent-up in the Green Room . . .
Rehearsing the lines of a 12th century master of calligraphy . . .
Some weird magical osmosis . . .

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Dusting oneself off (so to speak, of course) . . .
Dylanspeak! . . . I'm sailing away my own true love . . .
Once upon a dream sequence . . .
Why is that? . . .
Failure recapitulates failure, yes? . . .
The inaccuracy of memory vis-à-vis the inadequacy of documentation . . .
Really?
They keep trying to reach you with old questions . . .
Old questions . . .
The comfort of old questions . . .
Boarding the balloon with old questions . . .
The upheavals in every last one of them . . .
Some sidelined . . .
Some stopped short in the breakdown lane . . .
It was one of those moments . . .

Paulina Otylie Surys

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I will try to rewrite that . . . but no guarantees . . .
You seem to have seen past the obvious . . .
So this is where you want to bivouac? . . .
Higher powers . . . by all means . . .
The shape changers from Into Great Silence . . .
Walking out after almost two decades . . .
Sans synchronization . . .
With drop-dead costumes . . .
Following you . . . trance-like . . .
Carrying on with makebelievers . . .
What happens after a few drinks? . . .
The Styrofoam takeaway boxes at your beck-and-call . . .
Every new day is A-O-K . . .
Whatever it takes to make it work . . .
Becoming unhinged . . . swinging back and forth . . . back and forth . . .
Free to be . . . A to Z . . .

Deborah Turbeville

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At breakfast, the usual ordinariness . . .
Several chiming in . . .
The transmigration of voices . . . saturating all . . .
Her willingness? . . . A ploy? . . .
Pawn to queen's knight 4 . . .
Interrupted in the middle . . . of the sleepwalk . . .
He's livid! . . .
We can remedy that with a backrub . . .
And you're worrying the lost luggage? . . .
And the bags . . . under your eyes? . . .
I love it! I love it! . . .
Very professional looking in the gray business suit . . .and yet? . . .
I'm still on antibiotics! . . .
Our lives as refunds . . . as car rentals . . .
Of course, you can spin it a number of ways . . .
And convince yourself? . . .
Perhaps placate your inner orphan? . . .

Irina Dmitrovskaya

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You rehearse the lines of the jilted acupuncturist . . .
Stunning, quotidian, rare lines . . .
As they should be, yes? . . .
Adjusting the papier-mâché halo . . .
I too can be three . . .
Without which we will soon be lost . . . in seasonal motifs . . .
Press Restart . . . NOW! . . . for the Gipper . . .
The daily application of palindromes seems to be working . . .
Cue the chorus . . . send in the clowns . . .
Wait, she doth protest a tad much . . .
You alone will see the different colors as they come and go . . .
Come and go . . .

Deborah Turbeville