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Coming down the stairs, you didn’t see me at all. I watched you lumbering closely. I wondered what they’d done to you to make you move this way.
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I have enjoyed three paid teaching days in Minnesota, since my return in 1996. All three paid days were fielded through S.A.S.E., all three at Patrick Henry. I loved it there. I hope never to become certified to teach.
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Nephew Joe, my old brother's son, came to fix our pipes. Strapping, strapless, hairless, tanned, he clinked with gold. He came out to us over the pipes... drip drip...I just wanted them fixed pronto. He took precious time. He cried...drip drip...I wanted him to stop. My…
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Once upon a time I sat in summer chairs beside cool vine walls. This was in a borough east of the major city, where families gathered in seasonal joy, by blooms fragrant, to worship the summer and its might. There is nothing diminutive about the world when one is…
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“I heard your dad took out the Dairy Queen drive-thru,” said Pat.
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Bearded massage parlors of dissonance whittle away hours for a few dollars and cents
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Joe's, always smelling of cherry chapstick or the breeze that comes up from subway grates, used to service some of the finest dupes in town.
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Email flash: Kate Winslet is separated hope wells in dry souls
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Joey tried to shoot the cop with his air gun but the cop sprayed Joey with pepper spray.
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By the time I learned how much I loved my family, I was 3 years and eight-hundred miles away from them
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There is an empty space,
between every note in rock 'n' roll,
where they have buried John Bonham,
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Every day from my window I saw John Brigham's dog making its way across my field. The dog picked carefully through the shorn corn stubble taking the same route, I'm guessing, it took when the stalks made a shaded rustling forest. There is a narrow path…
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In the panic following news of my motorcycle crash, my honey fled the house without coat or wallet, and now, nearly midnight, we don’t even have cab fare home.
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Why is the ghost of John Lennon haunting a house in rural Oregon?
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“What’s a hushpuppy?” 264 asked 118, who knew three words of English.
118 said, “No.”
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[FARCICAL STATUS ... Keep going to Ladd's, you fucking losers! #talesofatwentyFOURyearoldNOTHING]
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NO ONE CAN BE A BASTARD FOREVER
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"Excuse me. I believe you have a little something falling from your right nostril there," he said, pointing with his pinky.
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She used her right breast. Lifted it to her chin, aimed at the can, and shoved it down as hard as she could.
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Unreasonable anger, Each hour prescribed
The house haunted
with good intentions,
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He also had OCD. He had to kick every dog he met. Johnny killed a lot of dogs and was bitten by many others. He was a cruel bastard.
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I was a coward and didn’t want to get killed like Heimley. Heimley was a nut at high school. I saw him myself one night put his hand right through the windshield of this car he was working on, along with a monkey wrench. Sure, he was drunk, but th
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An old man, a widower; living alone, defenseless. It was a given.
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I’m a black and white figure--out of place in a Saturday morning cartoon.
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A little boy sits at the table. He hears a knock at the door.“Mo-om!” the boy calls out. “Door!”His mother comes from the kitchen, wiping her hands on her clothing.“Jesus!” she says. “Would it kill you to answer the…
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I don't care much for Joking, which is not to say that I don't care at all for Joking, just that I don't care much. I would say, if I had to say, that I care for Joking about as much as I care for a cousin, not a close cousin, one I have a genuine frien
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A tanka poem about Jolly Old Nick being black as hell.
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"Oh, sit on my face oh won't you? Your velvety wetness would provide a nice counterpoint to the upholstery of the sofa-matching easy chair, crummy but that's the charm of this hipster-ironic dive playing 80's crap so I have to cram your music in my…
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Picture it-/
air not clogged with the shit//
that makes Beijing the dark joke/
of the developed world.
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After Jonesy entered the bear habitat, he walked up to the biggest bear in the group and punched it square in the nose. The bear was visibly startled. I mean, bears don’t get punched that often. And there’s a reason: bears are ferocious animals.
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