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Give peace to your neighbors, commanded the priest, so I dodged down under the pew.
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Saddam Hussein was a street-side seller of hot nuts near Faneuil Hall. He worked undercover there during the last Gulf War until just after it, as the US slagged the Iraqis. If only they'd known while they video-bombed his underground bunkers and chased his doubles that…
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What a nation!
First we lost our money
Now we’ve lost our funny
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The woman smiled at the scene. She closed her eyes to accept one final, warm kiss before the fence swallowed the sun whole. A cool breeze stirred itself from slumber, fanning Muriel’s face the moment the sun’s last ray stopped lingering.
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“Listen, Mother – you’re my ticket out of this burg and I’m not about to cash it in!”
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She thinks she trusts this man; she wants to trust him. His face reminds her of a man who once took care of her on an airplane when she was a kid traveling by herself.
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/ Don't make eye contact.
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Patrick Savage, who has died aged 29, was a poker player fast on his way to becoming a cult figure in the music scene.
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I won't fail at this like trying to fix a leaking sink without mud grease or washers tinier than Cheerios.
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He sat on a leather couch in the nude, blew smoke rings shaped like wild animals and picked verses out of the thick air.
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“Sorry to disturb you Mr. Crass but it is I, Fredrick come from Sir Yainsnit. I have a letter here for you from his namesake he handed me not more than one hour ago...”
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“Hell, that must mean vodka attracts superluminal neutrinos! Give me another.” I and the barkeeper complied. Stolichnaya, what else, frozen.
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Listen to me, at the end of all things, and I will tell you her story.
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And she tried to laugh, to justify her half evasion, to dismiss the memory of their vitriolic breakfast conversation.
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‘Didn't you used to have a daughter?'
The tense and phraseology jarred, but he was inarticulate not ignorant, awkward rather than unaware of how it sounded and she smiled at him.
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The truth, however, is this. "Ocean in a Box" was a novelty item, a sealed clear plastic container filled with a blue oily substance that simulated ocean waves. You could shake the box and watch the waves form until after a few days, it occurred to you th
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For instance, you may come upon an elderly couple quietly tending their tomato garden in a bunker on the eighth hole...
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It's Halloween again, the season when my mother died.
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A young officer approached the lawn where Shane was picketing with friends. All from middle-class neighborhoods, none considered "troubled," they were beginning to learn that obeying the law wasn't always enough . . .
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The duty of a student
can be summed up in a sentence
To benefit the race of man
with thoughtful independence
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Sometimes I think there's an octopus in my stomach. In the mornings it stretches and droops its lazy head to one side — It suctions it's tentacles to the walls of my belly and pulls them together forcing me To gag, and vomit what we didn't digest of the…
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My ride, my good friend Morning was due any minute, but of course, he/she was always late. My costume was a dog. I was stuck to another dog, in the act of passion. A stuffed one. A basset hound. I said my name was Lightning.
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We're on a bench in the park under some trees close to the carousel when she tells me I can't count on having a career as a professional gambler.
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Didn't the ACLU say that people
who have sex in the closed stalls of a public restroom have a reasonable expectation of privacy? Do you think that's still true if you can see the feet
moving awkwardly under the door?
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We walk in silence. We water our plants. We don’t eat as well as we should. We try to love. We try to forget.
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You rise dressed in peach
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Not a lovely view
As lovely as it is
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It is a dark and stormy night, naturally
We’re trying to get some sleep
at a Travelodge in Eureka
when I get up at 3 a.m. to write
“Hard motel pillow receives snoring from neighboring room”
O Thesaurus, we need another word
Maybe it sh
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