2006 16 15
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When I died, she said, she was going to have me cremated and put my ashes in the cats’ litter box.
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200692
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I won't fail at this like trying to fix a leaking sink without mud grease or washers tinier than Cheerios.
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200632
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One day my mother's lover shaved his beard and legs. Said he couldn’t fit into his tight jeans anymore.
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2005168
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dos equis ambar
sits cool and dark
by my side
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2005119
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"Jesus was a zombie?" I ask, shocked.
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20051819
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200400
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In se'enties style serenading strut
A passin all the pretty birds in kin',
The feathered Stetson ‘clipsin crimson suit,
A whistlin Dixie blues ‘cross county-lines.
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2004147
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I respect mom, she survived cancer and all while she was pregnant with me, but something about getting through all that crap made her heart tough, like an over-cooked piece of beef, and no one likes meat you have to chew forever.
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200432
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It wasn't meant to happen like this— the shutter, the feeling of breathlessness when he touched her shoulder, even after he had pointed out all of the things she had done incorrectly throughout the day. They had been married for five years in February, and as…
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200484
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It don't knock you down to the goddamned ground and push your face into the mat and dare you to get back up. Just so it can knock you down again. They don't have real dreams. Dreams that make them wake up in the middle of the night. Hurting. Wanting.
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2004145
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200400
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"I didn’t take my mother’s denial of my dream lightly. I wanted it desperately. I cried and pleaded, nagged and begged. On several occasions, I temperamentally got out of the car at a stop sign and walked. Once, my mother said that I was nagging her so mu
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200400
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I found my patch by accident whilst out picking medicinals ta cover a load o' dead constrictors. I tested the patch in the traditional way an' got a bit stoned on jes' a nibble o' a fresh sprout. Course, everyone knows the sprouts 're more concentrated t
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20042018
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2004178
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Mama loves birds but is afraid to fly.
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2003149
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Maybe all quarterbacks are shitwads.
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200394
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200395
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“…And his smell. That Brett smell. It might become my smell…”
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200321
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Terry worked in a factory out in Northlake where she added a little squirt of milk and another little squirt of cream to those tiny half-and-half coffee creamers you find at every motel in the country. The owner of that factory hired only women to work
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200383
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She thought maybe an angel had called out her name. She wasn't sure. She was waiting for her older sister to return with Jujy Fruits and bonbons. The theater, neither light nor dark, was to Cassie's ten-year-old mind, an appropriate-enough setting for a v
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200288
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Doorface has a door for a face. Thus his name. He was born with it. The door in his face, not his name. No one is born with a name. The naming comes later.Doorface finds his unusual physiognomy mildly inconvenient. People keep trying to enter his head. No one likes it when…
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20021110
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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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2002118
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Everyone at the Bermudez Brothers Combined Shows and Circus held one low opinion or another about Jimmy Dubcek.
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200271
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Homer relaxes in his tan, faded recliner, remote in hand, and watches death unfold on his television.
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200151
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It was the shock of black hair twisted into a long thick braid that got our attention and made us want to find meaning here. Albert thought he recognized the hair in the grave.
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2001137
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If ever I read a poem aloud
It will not be from a podium’s shelter
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20011615
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One by one I lost my desires.
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200110
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I’ve been here before.
it wasn’t you though—
it was her before you,
and then she before her …
before you.
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200152
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“It’s about basic working conditions!” she says, rubbing ice cubes on her nipples.
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200100
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As we sat at the cafe, Darrell told me that he had to make a mushroom delivery to one of his clients in Berkeley. I never knew whether it was legal or illegal business he was on, and he made a point of not telling me, because he said it was better I didn
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