1240 21 9
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Polite society will cheer/
as another body is discovered//
and disposed of. The cheers/
will drown out the gasps
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111 20 5
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1329 20 11
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The suite of dark rooms/
extends forever./
It’s no big deal.
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1799 20 16
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It was Gatlinburg in mid July
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1431 20 16
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The custard of eternity is scooped into
the quantum cone of knowledge and drips
out the bottom one lifetime at a time.
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2112 20 13
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I love to lie when discovered. "I'm your new neighbor." "The landlord sent me." "I'm the ghost of the girl who died on the 11th floor." "I fell from the sky." I wear billowing white dresses and a wide-brimmed straw hat that throws my face into shadow. Peo
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780 20 6
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...the bulk of poets are amateurs.
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1301 20 10
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Practice has perfected disengagement.
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1824 20 21
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Nights like this don’t happen often, nights when I wander the streets of an unknown village, dark and quiet streets that offer little in the way of diversion.
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1330 20 15
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I said, “Marcy, Source Almanac is a guide for the Apple.”
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1561 20 10
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The contrast can be summed up in a sip.
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1652 20 13
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You died from a bad heart.
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1681 20 18
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1658 20 18
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They are all sleeping, but I know better. I will keep watch and if he comes tonight I will be alert and ready. When he arrives he'll see the slack mouths, the graceless sprawls, hear the grunts, snorts and snores of the other women and then he'll sense me. My eyes will…
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1743 20 19
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if we stare into the dark long
enough, we see ourselves at some end or
beginning –
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1926 20 8
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There's a special block in the city, nestled between Mutant Town and Trump Towers.
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1539 20 10
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Their bodies, ripe uncovered flesh, had begun to erode, the edges of their limbs and cores bitten, taken by the wind in small pieces, flaking and tearing, some parts sliding, falling away.
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2233 20 10
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We construct a paper bridge. The droid walks across it. We follow, one after another, like sentences in a story.
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1388 20 14
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the doomed, but splendid,
first year GT40.
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1788 20 4
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It's supposed to resemble the sea bed. These fish have never seen the outside of an aquarium and even if they had, they are reef fish, they'd probably get the bends and die if they went to the bottom of the ocean where the chances of them finding a cerami
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2242 20 18
|
The doctor told me:
"You have 24 hours
to live.
no more, no less."
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1978 20 13
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"For God's sake," my mother said. "There could be anthrax in the candy."
My mother worried about me going out on Halloween.
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1801 20 16
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We borrow a flag from a neighbor. It’s sitting on top of the TV in the den. We haven’t figured out where to display it yet.
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2621 20 12
|
Tony Soprano said, “My pal Franco is a misunderstood hopeless romantic. If you don't capiche that, I'll have a conversation with your kneecaps.”
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3734 20 11
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He was on his way home from school on a dank winter afternoon when the attack came from nowhere, launched like a missile across the Gaza Strip. Suddenly he lay on his back with Jonathan Love pounding him in the face.
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1240 20 14
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I become the accumulation/
of appetites
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1202 20 15
|
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1910 20 9
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When he turns around she has her top off and is climbing out of her skirt. "I don't like old men that much," she says. "We don't have to talk. No one will know."
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1625 20 11
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...you lick you ice cream, little pink tongue like a cat's, flick, flick... lick fast, girl, the heat's gonna melt it...
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1337 20 9
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feeling empty as the
bottom of a bottle
dry as a bone
in death valley alone
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