Romeo and Juliet
If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a Laundromat. If you will bring the soap, I will bring the bleach.
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15%
She tries to get things out of men that she can't get because she's not 15% prettier.
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Flora Shakespeare
Acting out the place where the flowers die, circling their graves with themselves, your costume is perfect, you're on stage.
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The Memoirs of Jesse James
I remember all those thousands of hours that I spent in grade school watching the clock, waiting for recess or lunch or to go home. Waiting: for anything but school. My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.
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Have You Ever Had a Witch Bloom like a Highway
Have you ever had a witch bloom like a highway on your mouth? and turn your breathing to her fancy? like a little car with blue headlights passing forever in a dream?
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Rommel Drives On deep Into Egypt
—San Francisco Chronicle headline June 26, 1942 Rommel is dead. His army has joined the quicksand legions of history where the battle is always a metal echo saluting a rusty shadow. His tanks are gone. How's your ass?
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The Return of the Rivers
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. It is raining today in the mountains. It is a warm green rain with love in its pockets for spring is here, and does not dream of death.…
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Lettuce
The only hope we have is our children and the seeds we give them and the gardens we plant together.
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Carrots
I think the spring of 1968 is a good time to look into our blood and see where our hearts are flowing as these flowers and vegetables will look into their hearts every day and see the sun reflecting like a great mirror their desire to live and be beautiful.
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Squash
The time is right to mix sentences sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and the rain with verbs, and for worms to pass through question marks, and the stars to shine down on budding nouns, and the dew to form on paragraphs.
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Parsley
I thank the energy, the gods and the theater of history that brought us here to this very moment with this book in our hands, calling like the future down a green and starry hill.
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Sweet Alyssum Royal Carpet
I've decided to live in a world where books are changed into thousands of gardens with children playing in the gardens and learning the gen- tle ways of green growing things.
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Calendula
My friends worry and they tell me About it. They talk of the world ending, of darkness and disaster. I always listen gently, and then say: No, it's not going to end. This is only the beginning, as this book is only a beginning.
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Shasta Daisy
I pray that in thirty-two years passing that flowers and vegetables will water the Twenty-First Cent- ury with their voices telling that they were once a book turned by loving hands into life.
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California Native Flowers
In this spring of 1968 with the last third of the Twentieth Century traveling like a dream toward its end, it is the time to plant books, to pass them into the ground, so that flowers and vegetables may grow from these pages.
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Boo, Forever
Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.
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The Garlic Meat Lady from
We're cooking dinner tonight. I'm making a kind of Stonehenge stroganoff. Marcia is helping me. You already know the legend of her beauty. I've asked her to rub garlic on the meat. She takes each piece of meat like a lover and rubs it gently with garlic.…
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The Harbor
Torn apart by the storms of love and put back together by the calms of love, I lie here in a harbor that does not know where your body ends and my body begins. Fish swim between our ribs and sea gulls cry like mirrors to our blood.
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The Day They Busted the Grateful Dead
The day they busted the Grateful Dead rain stormed against San Francisco like hot swampy scissors cutting Justice into the evil clothes that alligators wear.…
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Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain
Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin and sounds like a sunshine harpsichord. I want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass Things A…
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