2100 10 9
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I ordered biscuits and gravy
at the Sunset Grill,
Just before the Amber Alert
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2003 10 4
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They live a simple life..two solitudes by lamplight.
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2003 10 5
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Okay, it was a long shot but who in that room wasn’t desperate to shift that shit? All our jobs depended on it.
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1778 10 7
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I reached for that hair and the air zagged white...
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1891 10 7
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Behind the wainscoting, the mice scratch, struggling to keep warm.
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1202 10 7
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"The sheriff's mother-in-law made the smoothest 'shine in the county."
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1417 10 2
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1336 10 2
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she lays there
wrapped in his baseball sheets
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1494 10 7
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The Tea Party member was married but cuter. He worked as a caulker, a tub and basin man.
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1700 10 4
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"Nice one, sir," the toilet said.
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2476 10 7
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I don't remember much before my brother moved out, but one thing that stands out in my mind was the bathroom we shared. He'd pull a stool up to…
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1582 10 8
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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.
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1427 10 7
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I like the cool and dark beneath my rock./
It protects me from the glare and scorch/
of noonday sun and the chilling shadows/
of midnight moon.
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1456 10 2
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Rasheed changes his mind about working for me. He can't bring himself to break with Uzma. The bond between them is too strong. I admire his loyalty, to her and to her parents. Don turns out to be my most reliable ally. Plus, he brings a ragtag security force with…
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1501 10 10
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I told her I didn't love her. She said love wasn't important; she wanted to marry a man she could respect.
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1478 10 7
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to us! Without it we are less than human and cannot guarantee your safe passage through our woods any more. Give us back the moon. It is the primary element in the makeup of our deepest breaths taken to invoke all cycles to continue. It contains…
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1440 10 5
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I remember, when I was selling real estate, how you could always tell when there'd been a divorce. One room was conspicuously left emptied of its contents, and these rooms were never swept or tidied. Instead they were left just as they were when the par
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1540 10 6
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The dictator, what'sisface, was crazy nuts.
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2032 10 4
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Who puts Vaseline
on the forefinger
of Lenin?
I want to know
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1437 10 6
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Rainy eyes fall fast somewhere
close to me
Riding the wind like lust
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1519 10 5
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I like it best when I wake up
And the wild rain of dreaming ends.
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1104 10 5
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1697 10 9
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What grabbed the mind when you heard about it was the way he did it.
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2251 10 3
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Her father stuffed years worth of stories into the phone, a sort of begging: how the new dog rode in the golf cart and retrieved lost Pinnacles; how the garage’s rent was too expensive; how the doctor gave him new pills and how he had lost weight and cu
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1435 10 9
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It wasn't the same as taking a course with Ginsberg. Everyone knew Ginsberg. Nick Cave, too, everyone knew him. Waiting lists were full months in advance for those classes, everyone sent in resumes and writing samples, praying, begging to be included. Lish was just an…
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2103 10 5
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I never killed a cop before.
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1351 10 3
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I am beginning to worry. There is something that they are not telling me. I am afraid that something bad is going to happen.
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1724 10 4
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Lapping salt beads from/
my crackling, ecstatic lips.
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2182 10 7
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Carthage, Rome subdued:/itself, Rome never long tamed./Memento mori.
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2380 10 6
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It was fun, until he started winning every time.
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