1623 11 4
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Mounds of earth and grassless ground
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949 11 10
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The last thing I remember is falling below the water, lungs filling with liquid.
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1298 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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1681 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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1698 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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815 11 6
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is this the end of civilization
is this what i've been thinking of
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967 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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1940 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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984 11 10
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It was a cruel question, coming on breath that stank of the grave.
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2873 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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1526 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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1999 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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1546 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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1968 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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1283 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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1536 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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2150 11 8
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1435 11 6
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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1493 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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1485 11 5
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An anorexic middle-aged woman walked up and watched me..
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937 11 9
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untilled, weedy, left to rest
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1295 11 8
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nothing suffices as harbor / but a permit to claw at every yawing chasm
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1683 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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778 11 8
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aquatic, free-swimming or earth-bound
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1076 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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1530 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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1658 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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1975 11 2
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I carried him home, all blood and brains, and set him in the ground. Is that love, George?
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1503 11 9
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Neglected long enough, uncalled for/
by the shrinking language of the day,//
my words abandon me.
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1053 11 9
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