2018 15 10
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. . . quit being so rigid, open up to the pasta.
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1283 15 7
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They wait for me every morningthese two furry four legged catswhen they hear my car,their eyes open wide and they nuzzle each otherin anticipationof the food I bring them
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2008 15 7
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My mind has started to finish thoughts at 77 Words. These are just a few.
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1812 15 13
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I am eternal/
as long as the power holds
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1943 15 14
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it was your hands—caked
with years-old clay & quaking
from too much solitude
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1342 15 7
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...he had that same grin, better than a racy French picture.
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1931 15 9
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Love free of independence is a savage, hungry beast
Phantoms grasping, sweating, gasping 'till her mind could not be freed
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1794 15 16
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He didn't hide it. He told her he was a mortician when he called. He had responded to her ad in the Lonely Hearts section of the newspaper.
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1479 15 9
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I will wrap up in quilts that still smell of summer sun
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2931 15 10
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Of only there were more like you,
I wouldn't be changing careers.
And my drawings would still be in magazines,
instead of on strange people's rears.
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2317 15 12
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This is the best kind of crime scene.
Spattered like gore from gunshots,
I'm left covered in trace evidence.
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2050 15 9
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The violin hung on the wall after that, a witness.
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1825 15 10
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Weddings, engagements etc.
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1122 15 10
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Once a psychologist told me a story
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3671 15 4
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Her pheromones were working overtime.
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1489 15 10
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Someone's ass should be kicked.
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1499 15 9
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They were discussing reincarnation,
what animals they would come back as.
"I'd be a vole," Cranshaw said. Is a vole
even an animal? Connie asked.
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1547 15 10
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in which a man who is bored with years of retirement poses a threat to himself and others
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1330 15 13
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3631 15 10
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I’ve forgiven my mother; she didn’t know what she was doing. She heard voices, had visions. She imagined herself to be a prophet named Helen when her real name was Marge. When she learned she was pregnant with me she scored some Thalidomide from my gr
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2456 15 11
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is every word is a small step takenaway from you that arcs back to me likea mamba's mouth. I'm not going aroundin place so much as running in circles. You can see my devilry here. You arethe truth here and that makes me the lie. You'renew morning. I'm much, much more…
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2452 15 15
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for Bill YarrowPoetry is a way of breathingagainst the enemy's chest withoutlosing consciousness again. Itis a ghost dance. Poetry is tobe determined by the plight of bees.Poetry is a waterfall ona mailing list. I've never tasteda finer whiskey than poetry.Poetry is half…
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2456 15 13
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Where will you hide? Because you know it Will seek you out for answers you might Only be asking for yourself. It Will send many students to stand outside Your apartment and chant your name. It will beg you to perform its birth Again to the…
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2077 15 11
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It came up heads so he is going first. He puts on a condom and gets in
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1852 15 12
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She wears three or four tattered sweaters on cool days. She pushes a basket borrowed from a grocery store. There is a plastic lawn bag in the basket with God knows what inside.
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It was not that he was boring – it’s just that he needed a lot of encouragement. When he came, he whispered to himself, ‘ohgodohgodohgod’ - like it was something to be ashamed of, to be sorry for. I wanted to hold him close against me but I also n
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At the graveyard, the leaves had been raked into loose array....
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1371 15 8
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If I had slept a little longer, I/
would not have seen this rarity at all.
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