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Every time I squished an ant with my finger, I felt a piece of me loosen and chisel off.
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16502117
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After breakfast, he dresses and heads / for the blackjack tables.
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16501511
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Here they come, those witnesses.
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1650107
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The Muse stands at the summit of a paragraph playing with a yo-yo.
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...the astonishing discovery...
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16501212
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1650218
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...ancient answers for new questions.
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165052
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You’re mad as a hatter she said. Eons, eras of epochal proportions go by before you call me. I said recalibrate your linear thinking, incubator baby. I whispered permutations of wonder, told her secrets only the sufis know. We ate French goat cheese lac
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1650113
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The impression old Updike left on a young mind.
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1650105
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I don't want no laugh track
I'm trying to find something that's real
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164998
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In the beginning the revolution was all motion and energy. When the President for Life resigned motion and energy disappeared with the sounds of clapping hands.
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164977
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The mountains of humility went silent, / the rain of regency dried its eyes
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164923
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It's blues, bars and boots since you went away. You were wiferustled like sheep, like cattle.
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164954
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It is late at night and you lean / over me to make sure your alarm is set.
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164911
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Eyes so much deeper, that the internal flow could not hope to equal the intensity fired beyond iris, pupil and sclera. So blue, that life could not exist in the fragile shape of his heart, blue veins outlining an ever enlargening circumference…
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164974
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The things we do for books, she thought.
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164962
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I pasted a sample paragraph of my writing on the website 'Who do you write like?'.
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16491913
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It’s not the money. The money’s/
just a way of keeping score.
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164921
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“What about this shirt?” “I didn't know Gap had an ‘approaching middle age pimp' department.” “So… no?” “Yeah. No.” “Approaching middle age?” “So…” “So?” “Soooooo…”…
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16492014
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In the bearded sun, I see a golden goat.
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164800
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but still whisper the brick /
and mortar details in both ears /
at once, twice.
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164877
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“Thank God The Yogurt Store Was Open!”. I knew this would cause cynics to seethe about me and my #FirstWorldProblems. While those less with the times or from many years of vanilla ancestry, might become racist themselves, indicating that I was suffering f
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1648159
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“Phennias Jessup is his name. That’s his death’s head scroll, an hourglass, bats, spirals and angel’s wings on either side of the top part of the stone. "
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164820
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According to the weatherman's morning forecast it was supposed to be a dark and stormy night. Unfortunately for Doctor Von Übel the weather had other things in mind...
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164811
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They sit, they create, they watch.
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164844
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Why you keep a razor blade in your stocking?
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164875
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That sort of says it all, doesn’t it?
The skirmish for truth must be fought early in the morning.
Lies happen later in the day.
Big lies occur in the night.
And this belongs directly on the surface of time as well:
Alleged shoplifter arrested
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164832
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He wasn’t there for the beginning or the end. In the beginning, he was still a wild thing. Nothing more than a voice in the chorus of the Dark Continent, back when it was a thing of terrible beauty and attracted people like the old man; people who breathe
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164812
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Phil was scared.
Not of his own shadow, but of the three men from ConAgra who'd dropped a duffel bag of green outside his den the week before.
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164854
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It made a satisfying ‘pop’ when Donnie’s nose crushed under my knuckle-scared right. I threw another to his jaw, and then a left into his gut. It had forced the air out and Donnie crumpled to the floor gasping, half sitting, gurgling through his nose.
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