1810 17 12
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When asked to turn over the Church's riches / he brought before the Roman prefect the poor, blind, ragged and infirm.
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1646 17 17
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Something about shadows and last time and driving.
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1099 17 12
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Matt was among those rare creatures; an ideal kind of reader ...
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1662 17 11
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When he got out of sick bay, they moved him into a room with three other alkies. A kid, a tree trimmer, and a Catholic priest.
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1978 17 15
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There he was. Minnesota Fats, short and pudgy, jowly and blond-haired.
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121 17 8
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Here's how it works. The clock in my therapy office ticks off the minutes I get to spend talking with each patient, forty-five in and out, regardless of the amount of distress. Less distress has the option of being shoved out earlier but…
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2421 17 9
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I don't know what happened to all the men. Used to wonder if they killed them all.
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1641 17 2
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You can tend to recognise the difference between a good and mediocre mind by observing how each reacts to a misfired original idea.The mediocre mind will praise the merely meretricious, but ignore the more interesting bad art. The higher mind will value the misfired…
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1728 17 12
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love weaves a perforated web
between the spikes
of longing
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255 17 13
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1723 17 8
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2004 17 9
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I turned on the television last night, and one of the networks had a segment about a girl with no nose.
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1428 17 6
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...Rabidosa rabida- no spinner/
of webs but a quick and cunning
solitary hunter. Anxiety overwhelmed
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1408 17 9
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...a session/
of hide and seek/
among the syllables.
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1453 17 11
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A dirtied light falls through/
the grimed windowpanes.
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2373 17 3
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When you push my bra down, so it rests uncomfortably beneath my breasts—your teeth dragging pink trails across my throat and shoulders, pushing your thumb and forefinger into my panties—you don't say that you love me. You say, “Jesus shit. Relax, baby,…
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3017 17 14
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I'm reading your remains.
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1282 17 8
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What are the odds of August rain in Texas?
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1665 17 11
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I knew a girl on Folly Island who took
showers in water so hot
her skin blushed pink rosettes.
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2017 17 7
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You have transformed me into an aimless, sleepless wraith...
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1620 17 7
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a song jolts my memory . . .
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2081 17 10
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When I squint at her from across the table I can see the waveforms created by her carrier signal.
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3159 17 10
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Eli the dog cocks his head like a pistol;
half cock, full cock.
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2141 17 9
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"we are all headed to be forsaken by animal hearts a mountain of poor"
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2056 17 11
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She drew her hands out of the chest cavity and looked at the clock.
‘Time of death,’ she said.
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1116 17 14
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My real parents lived about 200 miles in the other direction from where we came. But long ago I determined they were too real.
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2228 17 18
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It's that quiet comfortable darkness. One should feel it often and necessarily.
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1769 17 10
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I write to make visible my small/
assertions against impermanence.
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1384 17 7
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Eat the Body/
Drink the Blood/
Perfect the sacrifice,
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1860 17 3
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My swinging purse sent saucers tinkling to the tile and the copper-headed waitress flew over, swooping on the shatter, clutching clean forks like a handful of flowers.
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