1725 10 4
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I feel a strange loneliness for her...I think I will go to the beach, and forgive it for its sharp sand and lack of trees.
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1278 10 7
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The tech turns off the music. The capsule blares. I am in Jurassic Park with Sam Neill. I am Timmy, descending the electrified fence, almost toast. I am Karen Silkwood, a deer in the headlights, then showering off plutonium. A garbage truck is compacting
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1540 10 7
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Newhouse returned his gaze to his wet palm, which he lifted to his nose with suspicion, sniffed again and again, then struggled to move out from under the growing stream.
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1109 10 6
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Millennium jumped strumming lithium gum cumulative outnumber humiliated résumé jumpy instruments
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1067 10 6
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We do not all love each other for the sake of our shared art, apparently.
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1221 10 6
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Here comes my speed dealer
he's riding shotgun in the open
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1564 10 4
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So, like I said. Da. I have dealt with the men, when I was a lap dancer. The men they need the….manipulations. I have good hands. They want me to see them naked, their power. Here it is only the women. The massage, the facial, the waxing...
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1101 10 3
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One afternoon the kids from next door come over. Marion is our age, Jimmy a year younger. Marion's pretty. I can't even look at her.
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1856 10 9
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Marcy is two years older and got her period the summer before me. She thinks she’s a professor of everything, but she’s my best friend so I don’t say she’s being stupid or that her tangerine lipstick is smeared across her front teeth.
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1810 10 6
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Maybe we all met, somewhere, in between streets.
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1122 10 1
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I saw a woman / at the bar tonight
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1161 10 3
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Often I eat lunch at the hospital. The cafeteria may be the best place to eat in town.
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952 10 7
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clouds clot the horizon all day
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1238 10 4
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1838 10 5
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‘In terms of relationship, I am your Father – my name is the Emperor’.
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1393 10 4
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Come, bring your sadness
to the precipice of my body,
bury it within me like a tool
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1168 10 5
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If I could say only one thing more to Tony who died a month ago, there is one thing I could find to say
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1172 10 4
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Every day, a fresh new/
strain of Hell reveals itself
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1317 10 5
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addict for validation and cat tongues
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1264 10 7
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I wander toward the midnight dock
a neon sine curve stabs my eyes
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1932 10 5
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Sands In Time by Julie Noble As surreptitious as the crab creeping sideways under your patient observation, the sun has inched its way round the sky, echoing exactly the rugged curve of the Bay, and is now preparing itself for the evening slide. In its rich,…
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1056 10 8
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I call upon all cashiers in dungarees...
I call upon the baristas in rags...
I call upon those whose
sinister principles tax the weakness of their conscience...
I call upon all those deracinated by dreaming big...
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848 10 5
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1695 10 9
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The winner was some kid from Ohio or Oklahoma -- one of those states that begins with an "O" and ends with a yawn.
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1435 10 4
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Jasmine as skeined skins… of liquid hers, by willow courts, the lychee's water wains: as apple-moats flush fawn in russet light, through cherry floats, the leopard-dots of dawn. Branch to branchlet green …
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1289 10 7
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For you have waited. And waited and waited. And soon your slice of bread will be ready.
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1292 10 5
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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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1258 10 3
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It ain't the steak, it's the sizzle.
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818 10 7
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His self-assurance says/
he’s practiced in the art/
of self-deception
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1309 10 5
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If there was a God he was deaf in both ears, blind in both eyes and dumb.
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