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Sylvia was Shirley's girl
trapped in houses haunted with tulips
screaming
against the burnt-down walls
screaming motors
foot on the gas
brakes locked like castle doors.
And Shirley was Sylvia's woman
a shining sordid wife
a puppy tumbling in the grass
burying
in silence the burnt-out bones
burying
breathing a child's secrets.
Holding something's hand,
holding on even through
the passing over of the
veil, waiting for
the gas, the gas, the gas.

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Who is the prophet against the wall?
What does she ask,
which god's charge
does she carry in her hands?
Why does she gesture so,
and stop to shut her eyes?
Against the light she is dead,
the hole in her heart casts no shadow.
Mercy has fled that place of perception.

Unfair, it seems,
for a woman to ask so much.

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St. Louis most dangerous city in US

Consensus: taking the Series title away from Detroit is one thing, but taking the Worst City Ever title away? Now that is impressive. Clearly what this means is, if we want to win next year, we have to set the D on fire, or get Leyland and Rogers to start shooting people. I think Inge is first against the wall.

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2008 presidential candidate watch: Duncan Hunter, R-CA..

Okay, so he scares me a little. Could be worse, but there's a kind of Republican I'd vote for, and this ain't it.