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Erebus
… Cong, they are there too, and the ones from the day so many died you tore up your own clothes for bandages, all there … you can’t tell them. Over twenty years since you got lost coming home, and now you’re back here in the stinking silt …
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Che Sat Here
… Bolivia. Those were the days when the Cold War pitted Communist countries against their capitalist rivals. Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the ambassador of armed … like a trance state. “We put pajamas on him, but the soldiers pulled them down to show where the bullets were—in a …
Did You Once See Willy Plain?
… said a voice behind me. It sounded incredibly satisfied. It also sounded old and a trifle un-English, but what made me … as well have been some elegant kind of waltzing poet-soldier, now superannuated, out of an operetta. The … to see his wrist? I began to wonder if the bus would ever come. It was about as old as the biplane, and if it broke …
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Still Life
… only two dollars for a box of pastels at Walmart. It is incomprehensible that these students think Walmart is an … of jeans and shorts , and they’ve said only the nerdiest boys wear jorts. Her students are all at the Ilium … an hour. We’ll probably get on the homepage of Juniper’s website.”  “For defacing a wall?” Alice says, and Tabby says …
Back Steps
… pry off the garbage can lid; but then the chance may not come again. So instead you notice how distressed her call is … than you’d imagined. The ants are everywhere, of course, coming and going at all the openings; still, you pluck up …
New Leaders in English Poetry
… Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man. Two poets, Wystan II. Auden and … individualist, sceptical of the feasibility of Communist ideals. “Hugh M’Diarmid,” the pseudonym of Christopher Murray … from the Spring branches The desires falling across their bodies like blossoms. Such passages as this, which may raise …
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