1954 11 8
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But it all works out. I guess. Truth is something I'm sure I've never seen before, but the more time goes on, the Less I'm inclined to believe in it. Still I don't want To be one of those giving the finger to God And begging for a showdown with an…
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2041 11 5
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She wears a green and pink bikini and walks real slow, poking her chest out so people will notice her.
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2050 11 6
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It is certain. The roofs are hats for the houses because you wear a hat in the rain or the snow or even and sometimes especially the sun. The houses are curious. They keep their hats on at night. The downspouts for run-off water are strands of hair such as…
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1820 11 7
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She smacked his back a couple of times with the flat of her hand
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1876 11 4
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Mounds of earth and grassless ground
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1565 11 5
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As air warms and warm/
winds stir, green becomes the force/
that surges the plains.
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2003 11 10
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In San Francisco, there rides at night a phantom streetcar whose driver is none other than Walt Whitman . . .
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2001 11 10
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Your boredoms are not my fascinations. Your boredoms Belong to the ice caves with the Mammoths, Although haven't they been tortured enough by the Changing winds? Your boredoms are far from twinkling Objects in the beaks of ancient crows,…
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1126 11 6
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is this the end of civilization
is this what i've been thinking of
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1182 11 6
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The woman broke the law with that scream. I would say that there was pleasure in it, for her. I would also estimate that ten or fifteen men saw it, ten or fifteen men plus me.
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2312 11 10
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It was when the party hit a lull and a woman wearing too much rouge was going on about her parakeets that Tom decided to set down his bourbon glass and pull out his gun.
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1257 11 10
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It was a cruel question, coming on breath that stank of the grave.
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3127 11 3
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Can I really be blamed? Look at the circumstantial evidence: you wore that skirt, which can hardly be called a skirt. More like a very wide plaid belt.
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1963 11 9
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They both have an annoying habit. She talks to him while she's in another room, and he doesn't answer because he can't hear what she's saying.
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2329 11 8
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You’re the girl that would sneak out to poetry readings instead of parties, watching fierce semi-bearded men reading their poems from hand-stapled zines.
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1762 11 4
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I have an appointment set for the day after next; you said you thought you might be firing blanks and then I feel a kick into my chest—two kicks, three, seven at least—my cat is going crazy at the stinky tom outside the window and the birds are waking, sc
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2308 11 9
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oh, sure i’m still running around like a heads-up/off/prophet/profit/fit trying to cut off my very own de/(con)instruction and all other sordid a•void•able & available /a-Babel-Trumpish towers of post & toastmodern doom/daze/haze
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1551 11 6
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I said hey man, how you doin’? He looked up and nodded but his shades flashed and I couldn’t see his eyes.
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1764 11 8
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8) An exercise online calls for the first sentence on page 45 of the book nearest you as a suggested description of your love life. The book 9) nearest me still is _The Quarterly_, 1, spring 1987, that I have on my desk in preparing to write an essay.
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2494 11 8
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1663 11 6
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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1763 11 7
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He got tired of the pool party, the chit-chat, the suburban posturing, and he decided to swim home.
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1757 11 5
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An anorexic middle-aged woman walked up and watched me..
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1212 11 9
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untilled, weedy, left to rest
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1609 11 8
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nothing suffices as harbor / but a permit to claw at every yawing chasm
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1994 11 7
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Winter melts to ashes and now we walk where hillocks dip like pillows, where a warm pocket of air keeps the scent of spring beauties for itself. Sensitive vetch so easily shocked folds under a feather yet the earth trembles where trout lilies shove. Buds stall on lilacs…
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1034 11 8
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aquatic, free-swimming or earth-bound
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1415 11 6
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Ok, so I know this guy, he's a friend of mine. A good friend, even though I think he's left too big a tip on the bar more than once. His name is Frank.
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1767 11 9
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If you find a nickel-plated Colt .38 lying on top of a worn copy of King Lear, you’ll know who you’re dealing with.
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1936 11 11
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This is the place I could find my breath. I didn'tSay I understood it. I only wanted to hold someone andMeant to. I don't care about the rules for caring.This place where I could speak was incredibly far from Where I'd once met you. The place where I could…
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