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The longest-serving Republican Senator, Alaska's Ted Stevens, found guilty just a few hours ago on all charges in his corruption trial. Do you know this story? He failed to report he had some work done on his house. Yeah, here's the bad part. You know who did the work? Joe the plumber. Unlicensed.

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That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.

Jump, Morning, Teacher, Tries, Trying
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there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Appears, Chance, Enough, Long, Prevails

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

Beloved, Call, Earth, I Love You, Want

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Face, Life And Death, Question, Rising, Water, World

If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.

Body, Character, Chekhov, Heart, Hearts, Writing

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Ones, Right, Words, Writing
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