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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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1399 10 4
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"Nice one, sir," the toilet said.
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2077 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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1237 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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1136 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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1219 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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1219 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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1211 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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962 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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1267 10 6
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The dictator, what'sisface, was crazy nuts.
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1649 10 4
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Who puts Vaseline
on the forefinger
of Lenin?
I want to know
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1152 10 6
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Rainy eyes fall fast somewhere
close to me
Riding the wind like lust
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1257 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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786 10 5
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1376 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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1730 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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1131 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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1767 10 5
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I never killed a cop before.
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1115 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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1440 10 4
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Lapping salt beads from/
my crackling, ecstatic lips.
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1859 10 7
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Carthage, Rome subdued:/itself, Rome never long tamed./Memento mori.
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1943 10 6
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It was fun, until he started winning every time.
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1393 10 9
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Cinema Verite’ is the best book of poems I have encountered since Matthea Harvey’s Modern Life
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2123 10 6
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So when they shake a finger, when they yell, she remembers Miss Whalen saying, “It’s not for keeps.”
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1523 10 6
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He is drilling the door of a safe to access the keys he locked inside.
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2227 10 10
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... and you can’t balance your checkbook or divide a three-way bill in a restaurant but you can still recite all the sixteen ways of SHAUN CASSIDY TELLS: 16 WAYS TO TURN ME ON!
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1584 10 5
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Half way through our cigarettes she told me her name was Charlotte.
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2132 10 8
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Sand underfoot.It's raining I say …
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292 10 2
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I called it Nirvana and Elysium
I called it Bountiful
I called you to come forward
Without counting.
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1545 10 5
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As a boy I fished under the Tappan Zee bridge which spans the Hudson River above New York City.
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