2558 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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1820 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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2623 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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1866 10 5
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Half way through our cigarettes she told me her name was Charlotte.
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2437 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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1746 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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1925 10 5
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"She had been warned." (this started as a fun alien story and then took a human turn.)
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1804 10 6
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“Ol’ Betty has a nice set of headlights,” he says with a wink as he springs out of the recliner.
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2146 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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1599 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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1901 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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1344 10 6
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Millennium jumped strumming lithium gum cumulative outnumber humiliated résumé jumpy instruments
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1324 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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1548 10 6
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Here comes my speed dealer
he's riding shotgun in the open
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1899 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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1695 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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2203 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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2184 10 6
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Maybe we all met, somewhere, in between streets.
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1388 10 1
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I saw a woman / at the bar tonight
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1770 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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1212 10 7
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clouds clot the horizon all day
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1557 10 4
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2571 10 5
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‘In terms of relationship, I am your Father – my name is the Emperor’.
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1664 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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1461 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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1499 10 4
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Every day, a fresh new/
strain of Hell reveals itself
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1592 10 5
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addict for validation and cat tongues
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1613 10 7
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I wander toward the midnight dock
a neon sine curve stabs my eyes
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2673 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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