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If You Knew What if you knew you'd be the lastto touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at the theater, tearing them, giving back the ragged stubs, you might take care to touch that palmbrush your fingertipsalong the lifeline's crease. When a man pulls his wheeled suitcasetoo slowly through the airport, whenthe car in front of me doesn't signal, when the clerk at the pharmacywon't say thank you, I don't rememberthey're going to die. A friend told me she'd been with her aunt. They'd just had lunch and the waiter, a young gay man with plum black eyes, joked as he served the coffee, kissedher aunt's powdered cheek when they left. Then they walked half a block and her auntdropped dead on the sidewalk. How close does the dragon's spumehave to come? How wide does the crackin heaven have to split? What would people look likeif we could see them as they are, soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless, pinned against time?
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Unscramble ELLEN5-letter words that start with E5-letter words that end in N5-letter words containing LL5-letter words containing EN5-letter words with E and L
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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The old plural of Eye.
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ENE
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