2418 21 16
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A favorite place doesn't always offer comfort.
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1865 21 5
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You got a lot of people, out there
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1395 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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1594 20 11
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The suite of dark rooms/
extends forever./
It’s no big deal.
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1995 20 16
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It was Gatlinburg in mid July
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1732 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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2341 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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964 20 6
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...the bulk of poets are amateurs.
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1580 20 10
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Practice has perfected disengagement.
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795 20 16
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Aside from smearing your mascara, destroying your freshly manicured fingernails, and pulling up your skirts in an unladylike way, being slain is a drag! How do you know if murder is on his mind when all you see are his words?
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1629 20 15
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I said, “Marcy, Source Almanac is a guide for the Apple.”
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1744 20 10
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The contrast can be summed up in a sip.
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1827 20 13
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You died from a bad heart.
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1915 20 18
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2425 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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2052 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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2255 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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1731 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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2655 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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1581 20 14
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the doomed, but splendid,
first year GT40.
|
2121 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
|
2669 20 18
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The doctor told me:
"You have 24 hours
to live.
no more, no less."
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2386 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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2318 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.
|
3060 20 12
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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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4080 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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1441 20 14
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I become the accumulation/
of appetites
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2261 20 15
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2277 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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