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Steve lowers himself onto a lounge chair and lets out a long, overdue sigh. Cliff and Jim, the frickin’ and frackin’ of the built-in pool industry, are making a Burger Chef run while the cement sets.
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My wife and I are cat people. Indeed, that's how we met. We met at a wake.
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Xao Ping reflexively dug her claws into the plush chenille of the sofa and let out a low yowl. She knew the old lady would be mad if she tore the fabric, but she couldn’t help it.
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"You wantin' one of them kittens? If we can't give 'em away we're gonna drown 'em. We got too many."
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It may be her destination, but was it also her destiny?
In a desperate wave of inspiration, she decided to let fate take its course.
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Catullus 16 I will fuck you up the ass and then the mouth, Furius the catamite, and pederast Aurelius: you both who think, because my poems are salty, that I possess your equal lack of shame: for it's proper for a poet to be moral, no way essential for it…
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On shingle of seashells &
Bullet shells,
Ghosts drift along the shore
Of the Black Sea.
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“You sure?” He nods. “Maybe it was pneuomonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.” Flash of a smile, sobbing laughter, like an abandoned seal.
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The store was closing for good, and so I purchased a book of poems by Cavafy,
that poet of ruins and tombstones, and fragments from disintegration.
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Naked chest, Naked nipples...
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his perfect ivory
voice telling me
i brush too hard.
…as if he cared
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Lou Reed was sitting in CBGB,
I was sitting on Greenwich Ave. and West 10th street.
I didn't know him then and I didn't know him later either,
but we were both there.
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The man's dog slipped away one night. He left soon after.
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Because they boil bananas and I fry them.
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No, that can't be him, Joe thought. The guy was messing around the displays in back. He had walked in three or four minutes ago, by now, and he certainly looked the part — or at least Joe thought…
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This was a word Celes had not ever heard before. "Ethics?"
"Ethics is… Well, let me see how to put this." He put down his fork for a moment and thought before continuing. "Ethics is the study of the form of what is right and what is wrong."
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Hey, how are you? she squeaked.
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An old man writes the story of his life into a book.
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The calls were going through her as if her whole head had become a wireless receiver. She absolutely did not understand how or why that was happening, but the physical evidence was impossible to ignore.
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The tsunami started, ironically enough, with a phone call.
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Mina stumbled and fell headlong into her apartment, smacking her knees and palms on the hardwood floor.
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Five o’clock, and Madame choosing her evening legs. Elizabeth assisting. Elizabeth will continue to assist until midnight, despite the chaos, at which point the authorities will tell her such assistance is no longer necessary.
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Be not a Hercules furens abroad, and a Poltroon within thyself
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*A"Cento" which is a "patchwork poem" using the words of other writers. for V.W. …
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The tailfins of our ’57 Plymouth Fury dip and rock from the stress: Three boys—say no more?—jumping into the car. And Dad, loading suitcases into the trunk, working them around the steel cooler heavy with Cokes, root beers, ice. He slams the trunk lid dow
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I am falling, falling out of my body,
falling like midnight onto mice.
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It was possible, she realized, to hope through hopelessness.
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All I know about the futureis that every one alwaysgets to exactly where they are.
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