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the far-flung Turner boys and their broods descended upon Pemberton like locusts
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...I had a string of Sunday School medals that knighted me a warrior for Jesus Christ of Nazareth...
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And a delicacy
in the right regrets.
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tiny banners, browned/
and wrinkled by time,
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I don't know where to start. We're gaining flight. Did you seeanybody we know? The trees are always a concern. I don't thinkI know how to stop this thing from crashing into parked cars,that is if we live. You can say it was all on a stupid dare. They don't have to know…
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Can't cope.
Got no hope.
Got no dope.
Call the Pope.
Get the rope.
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[TURN-ONS: willingness. TURN-OFFS: rejection.]
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She caretakes, he takes care
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Look around you, see what you have built.
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of any cautionary tale is somewhere found rolling around in your own sweet voice for me. Your sound's still listing there inside my wobbly head. My head is too often in my open hands, grinning behind its face-mask like a parade on…
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These words are dripping Delaware and these words are eating your eyes.
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Long, elegant, with a touch of arch,
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It was impossible
that you wouldn't love me
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Somebody needs to call Frank. The pediatrician who fixes cars on the side.
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It is not unusual for farmers to see the future before it’s begun—but I am not speaking here only of the need to hope but more. . . .
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Life is meagre with me; I am unsatisfied and left always begging for __________.
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I pass the Grief Benches on my way to work. No one is on them today. Last night I saw a couple there, him wet eyed and her with her head down. She scrunched her eyes tight as I passed and I remember thinking she was a fraud. It's alright if you don't want
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Who is the moron that invented the Snuggie?
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You're on the Ferris wheel, and the wind is blowing just a little bit, and the sky is invisible behind a wash of white clouds, and your little yellow box tips when you look down, down to the fairway swinging. In the boxes below grandmothers are shrieking …
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"You know what a hobo is, my young friend? Or a tramp? Or a bum? Well, I'll tell ya, 'cuz you'll meet all of 'em in yer life and it's a good thing to know since they are each one of 'em different and the difference is this. Bums sit around and loaf. T
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Uh oh, the dry cleaning ticket
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"Take a chance, Bill," she said, "Like Eddie across the hall did. Tess told me he marched right into his boss and demanded a raise. He pointed out how much they needed him and they gave him twenty-five dollars more a week.
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Of course the man went tumbling, and though he fell not far, a falling with a body full of meats and sweet breads makes the landing something awful-not so bad that Desperate got it-only so the leg puffed like a blue, rain swollen, earth-bound cloud.
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They were
obviously having
some secret
beach affair.
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When it rains, I can really think.
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Pow! I shoot him through his jelly donut.
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