1471 21 17
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There is a tall and leafy tree in our backyard. Also a bride, a groom, and a chicken.
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1971 21 14
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The last time she wore fur-lined gloves...
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1254 21 11
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He hid in parks and abandoned apartment houses until his wounds healed. He ate nuts, berries, and seeds. A shy, gentle soul, he watched children playing on the monkey bars, and thought of his lost youth.
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1386 21 12
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Fear in a Handful of Dust
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1144 21 14
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I don't believe in symbols
but there's a hole
in my living room window
in the shape of a bird
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1158 21 9
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1156 21 9
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There is a small church in the south of Italy, with a stained-glass window depicting the sister of John The Baptist.
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1113 21 10
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The fly comes in against my will/
and hers. She would prefer/
the wider world with its piles of shit
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1212 21 15
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I've decided I'm here to be absurd.
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1673 21 15
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The dog is there, on sorry legs, with sorry claws. He looks toward the man, the bat, and says, You know me, Man. I know you know me.
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1366 21 7
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We got married in a hospital. My bride had her appendix out the day before our wedding, so we decided to tie the knot in her room at Hoover Memorial.
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1461 21 15
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“Last night the Scots invaded Sweden,” I wrote, “to retrieve the silver filched from the Irish the Norwegians had in their coffers when Sweden conquered. The Swedes offered the Nobel to a Scots writer to keep ... the peace."
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1179 21 11
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In a time of drought,/
the sound of rain is sweet/
and joyful music.
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1709 21 12
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I couldn’t begin to give an account of the latest days.
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1339 21 12
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It is a well-known fact that my wife sleeps around. There. I said it and now everyone knows that I too know about my wife. Let me just tell you this one thing; she has her reasons. You ask me how I know that she has her reasons, but who would know better than…
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1213 21 7
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Once, asked what time it was, M. replied, "Eternity."
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1290 21 19
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I once read a book of warnings.
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1270 21 12
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the birth of a long, dark age//
where the wealthy will be eaten by the poor/
and the poor will be eaten by disease
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1831 21 8
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Women with tremulous breasts. Going down the swimming pool drain.
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1269 21 12
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It chases other newborns down and eats them.
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1355 21 19
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The younger woman asked Scott if he loved Jesus.
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1603 21 6
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The "Many Worlds" theory, applied.
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1393 21 18
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When I died, she said, she was going to have me cremated and put my ashes in the cats’ litter box.
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65474 21 16
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"Hey, Ceecee." Rodrigo squatted on our three step stoop every morning, flanked by pit bulls with wide black smiles puffing steam. I jogged down the steps, leaned against a parking sign. Warmed my hands with my breath. Tugged my crop top down. "Girl, you gonna…
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1133 21 15
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A small poem about incipient insanity
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3080 21 18
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On her lunch break, she dumps Luis for Daniel Towens, the ugliest man in the county.
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1199 21 14
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1293 21 7
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55 words, slightly naughty
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1490 21 16
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I always wanted to head on up to New York City and be taught by a decent painter, but as time kept on trucking, it became clear that that was just a big dream that would not shake out and I'd never be a real artist because I was shy of the money I'd need to stay up there in…
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1150 21 13
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The virtuoso tortures a violin/
in homage to Paganini.
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