871 0 0
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“Okay, here is a wild idea. Let's each choose outfits from the second hand store for the other to buy and wear to a bar for a drink..."
Famous second to last words?
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949 7 4
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Women can often be found
Sizing up each others’ tits
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833 8 8
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The train station offers a pleasant atmosphere, though it exists as an in between place. People only come here to go somewhere else.
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765 10 9
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I caught sight of him standing near the nails.
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1507 2 2
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Most people assume I’m gay, and have assumed I’m gay since I was in fifth grade. Maybe sooner. Maybe fifth grade is just my first memory of recognizing what other people believed true about me. But coming out as a gay man in 1987, when I was in fifth gra
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316 6 4
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Here were men trying their best to kill other men....
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1963 15 10
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If things continue to go bad for her she will become second wife in six years.
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1706 6 2
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Your mom’s favorite joke right now is how enamored I am with the chair the nurse brought me, the one that converted into a bed. Apparently, it’s all I can talk about when people ask about your birth. But really what can I say? If I say the birth was easy,
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824 19 14
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To whoever reads this next--Henry James makes my head hurt.
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1356 6 5
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Someday, the Grim Reaper, wrapped in hooded cowl, the thorny stem of a red rose clenched between his teeth, will climb up the garden trellis to my bedroom window
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1248 19 8
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...collapse of the human world. Go, cell phones!
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1176 6 2
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She buried her secrets in a bowl of brownie mix....
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1507 3 3
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Don’t worry about what went aloud. I said nothing.
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1377 13 8
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1503 19 8
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The one he liked best was a middle aged woman who didn't wear underwear. She had a terrific figure.
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1141 4 1
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We gave our cigarettes names.
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1312 12 7
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The dog awakens at the sound of a petal falling, sure that barbarians are at the gate. She opens wide her yellow teeth.
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1161 0 0
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Bruce Springsteen begins singing from the loud speaker he was bruised and battered and couldn’t tell what he felt.
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1561 5 3
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“No names,” she said. “I am the mysterious woman, and you are the handsome stranger.”
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1184 3 0
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Some of us, however, turn our secrets over in our souls, churning them with the fury of the howling winds of a January night. They are eroded and shaped and fine-tuned with the precision of a jeweler; the deeper and darker they are, the more brilliant of
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1025 3 1
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In one section of the map C climbs a staircase.
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976 6 2
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To a desert island I pick a book of crosswords for my one item. It is a desert island. What could be more practical? I awake in the middle of the night, an itch in my throat. I blow my nose. Weird gobbets of blood ring my Kleenex. It drizzles out now, wet here, gelatinous…
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2051 22 7
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“Sorry, I farted,” Ted says after the nurse leaves. He squeezes my hand like he’s telling me grave news.
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1101 9 7
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This is the Minuteman tine/
of the three-tined fork//
we can stick into the modern world/
when it’s done-- a MAD triad.
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128 4 3
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Overheard from the back seat of car:
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1268 10 1
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Her preferred post-coital activity is to pant, to suck in air with urgent greed.
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1468 10 7
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Behind the wainscoting, the mice scratch, struggling to keep warm.
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1390 4 1
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The way she once felt for another, naked mornings in her bed, and Young Frankenstein. Sed-a-give.
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990 4 3
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I'm re-invented on Main St. every single day.
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1877 32 11
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Jane watched her mother remove her wedding ring with butter.
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