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You want to know what happened to him and your curiosity is a cat pawing at the edges of your impatience as you roam aggressively around your old haunts.
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2023 15 6
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Elvis at a Starbucks. Some graphic words.
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217 15 14
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It really makes you wonder what else you don't know.
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1609 15 12
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Leonard didn't know that cute girl well, hardly at all, but he really wanted to. She was his first real crush in Junior High. He got his chance and talked to her some one day while they were walking down the hall between classes. She actually spoke to him first. The bell…
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1389 15 12
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He hiked the hills of her condition
She biked the path of his delight
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1103 15 10
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The mirror can never talk back/
unless corrupted creases of the brain/
and its recombinant physical maladies//
elect to answer...
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Poets who thrum jirble and thwack
Poets who thrum eat quorn with raw swamms
Poets who thrum are eristic (not shambolic)
Poets who thrum deliciate unto kench when they freck
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1210 15 8
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The form I completed yesterday filled out several attachments, including one for passive business loss. I did not believe I had incurred business loss, just that I was freelancing part-time.
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1234 15 11
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1765 15 10
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You wanted a love poem written just for you. / Here it is. Don’t look askance.
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These days I wear a flag pin.
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1425 15 8
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Mostly, though, reiteration of the old/
in an idiosyncrasy that strives/
to become fresh and fails
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1293 15 8
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I paid the doctor / You paid the doctor
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677 15 9
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wonder
at all the things done
without regard for you at all.
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1315 15 8
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Susan said since her divorce three years ago there have been too many Jacks in her life. Seven, if she counted that older guy. She knew that now. Too many. It was the name and little else that drew her to men. She told me the name alone was like Pavlov's bell. It…
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1083 15 7
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Got something inside me
hard as nails
keeps me walking upright
ain't never failed
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1011 15 9
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Other pathways are more satisfactory. They are more closely attuned to music of the other world. Even so, the heat eventually burns them up.
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1781 15 11
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...still the same old signs...
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1254 15 9
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How they all beat the small drum/
of the word within the world
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I made myself tiny as I could, imagining I was Houdini shackled underwater, holding my nose and practicing my escape...
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1614 15 10
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There was gonna be a rumble in our schoolyard. An outright brawl. It was gonna be just like Blackboard Jungle. Only real. Not some movie at the Duwamish Drive-In. Every boy in my school, it seemed like, was lined up outside except me. All the third and fourth graders…
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1956 15 7
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Now he took his guitar in hand, and at once he felt a strange fiery sensation rise from the soles of his feet, to the palms of his hands, to the tips of his fingers: the Duende. It was that mystical force poets can sense, and no philosopher can explain.
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Effie reckons the river her sister keeps asking about, the Great Pee Dee, was named after some Indians.
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1150 15 5
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"And yet she always went on writing, even when nobody cared if she did or not: if she stopped, she told an imaginary prosecutor in her diary, 'I will not have earned death.' "
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1327 15 4
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This cell the sole certainty,
all else steeped in mystery.
Why should we be here?
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1441 15 9
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She called it phantom energy. She said it was costing us money every month. A few cents here and there, sure, but it all added up.
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1325 15 4
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A delicate thrill buzzed my face.
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1412 15 13
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San Bruno avenue, six shops in eight blocks. Those Vietnamese ladies thrive on the pedicure trade.
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1336 15 6
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Now his daughter was an American citizen and Max wanted only the chance to board the SS Maua and disembark in New York.
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1625 15 7
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I could call him. And be done with this waiting but I refused. I wanted him to not forget me first. To bring himself to remember me first before I'd give him the pleasure of my company.
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