1292 15 4
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It was a dire and dun-colored year when groupies wept and autograph seekers put down their pens.
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2285 15 8
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When you return home, one year to the day that you left us, you will wonder if you can do it all over again.
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2032 15 13
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Sixteen years married, and now she wants a wedding ring. He brings her a box of Cracker Jack. She doesn’t think it is funny.
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1484 15 12
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A farm girl raised on fresh eggs and weather forecasts...
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1648 15 11
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They say, we have hangnails.
I say, I have a bruised leg.
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1808 15 6
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with images overflowing with delicate thought scenes with nightmarish wet dreams
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1582 15 15
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I dreamt I was spinning down the coast in a convertible. It was warm, and the top was down.
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1636 15 9
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1448 15 8
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What's that snitch doin' here?
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1612 15 10
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I tell my woman friend the new man's penis is too large. I tell her once. She asks me later whether I asked about it at the doctor's—large cock, she calls it, and I say I told the doctor my boyfriend's in a wheelchair.
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2088 15 10
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Life was small. It was tiny even, so tiny it was hard to see it sometimes. Life curled up to make itself even smaller, to fit into the kinds of holes that insects crawl into to get away from bigger insects. Life was sad. Life didn't want to be an insect.
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1670 15 10
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It's so far to get to where we aren't inthe way of someone's destructive progress.I'm only walking in my own gardensnow, but the big blue house is like an emptiedout envelope. I guess that makes this themissing letter. I don't know your heart's newaddress, but I once…
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2232 15 11
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The sky was an over-bleached sheet, stretched to the point of ripping. Everything worn but clean. He was saying he'd be happier if we lived in Canada. The sun seemed very close, like a star at the top of a Christmas tree. Maybe I could pull it down. Our baby had…
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1831 15 8
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Being simple like this, knowing a thing is done by doing.
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1544 15 12
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(I'd appreciate some feedback on this very weird story.) A Frosted Mini Wheat walks in to a bar...
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2108 15 13
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I ask because she's the animal person, not me. She understands animal behavior.
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1346 15 8
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Let's just rest and let the wind blow through our hair, while the mountains quake and the trees shake their leaves. Towards another destiny, a new world ... where greed is only a word without significance, hunger doesn't belong in a dictionary and money is only an…
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2025 15 10
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...skinny love, skinned and thinned weak broth love...
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I forget you. Upfront: that’s how this ends.
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the boredom inherent in living in the suburbs
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253 15 9
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Her voice gets screechy as she talks of the boy he was caught fondling in the bathroom of a bowling alley. The worst part: the dumb schmuck doesn’t even bowl.
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They shared a lot through the years – a bus stop, acne, and first kiss stories. George was happy to be her confidant, good enough friends to help shoulder her burdens. But he wanted to push her curls back behind her ear and trace her soft cheek with his f
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2075 15 16
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When Carlotta left me, I cried / into my soup. I shriveled into / harsh mathematics.
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563 15 12
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"Tell me more about your volcano obsession," he said.
I told him about Pompeii. About the city frozen in time. And about the casts of people frozen in stances of eternal abject horror by a disaster they had no chance of avoiding, a disaster
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1739 15 9
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Outside I see the daytime moon, and it is faint as a fingerprint. My cousins have up-turned the biggest rocks and removed all the Sow bugs. The land is damp and red, and the trees feel wet to the center.
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1428 15 10
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when the mirror cracks
my eyes won't cry
it's a perfectly
respectable (romance)
between her and i
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4644 15 9
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Although decades have passed since I last tasted lysergic acid with diethylamide flavoring, I cannot fail to remember the tasting.
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1123 15 10
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No canopic jars and fine Egyptian cotton.
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