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Little rambling soul,/kind guest, friend: leave me laughing,/pallid stiff, and bare.
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1771107
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The Muse stands at the summit of a paragraph playing with a yo-yo.
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177143
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Grace Gibbons is a way of life.
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17711512
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Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
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177131
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Over fifty plastic flamingos stood silently at attention... as if eating sea urchins out of our lawn.
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1771103
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She refuses to let her eyes cry. Her eyes played tricks on her and showed her one thing was really another. They don't deserve to cry.
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17711410
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1770149
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Maybe all quarterbacks are shitwads.
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1770174
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It was in the spring of 1958 when I first arrived in Kobe, Japan, traveling aboard a Norwegian merchant ship, looking to make movies on a limited budget. Superior quality cameras, lenses, and film were being produced in Japan at a fraction of the cost for similar products…
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177032
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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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177000
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The place turns out to have a really nice ambiance, and while the pasta is only passable—though I ordered, I believe, the cheapest plate on the menu, so maybe I got what I deserved—the background dinner music playing is "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" by Wilco.
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177073
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We spend life, or much of it rather, chasing epiphanies promised to us by hip prophets and free spirits.
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177098
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The stand is designed to clasp two guitars, one on either side. She cradles an Ovation in her arms, a guitar variety our high school friends used to call a soup bowl. In the stand is an acoustic-electric hybrid that I toyed with for ten…
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17701411
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177022
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This is a wife pregnant with spiders
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1769137
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If ever I read a poem aloud
It will not be from a podium’s shelter
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17691310
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the ugliness will not be denied
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176974
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176964
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Copernicus spied/a new centrifugal spin:/Bosch saw what he meant.
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176910
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“What I really want to know is, why is a straight guy called Caspar opening a lesbian leather bar in Berlin anyway?” Shona asked. “Schöneberg must really be going to the dogs.”
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1769108
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Because if they’re wavering, it's about the coin, always about the coin.
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17691510
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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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1769105
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Truth came out of it, a little bug that hovered there...
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176900
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Bo ruled the city by suggesting new scent formulas in a booming croak of a voice that shook the earth for acres around, yet as a result everybody on the block smelled like fairy breath. Or, on his BAD BREATH DAYS all of the people reeked of rotted sushi f
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17691310
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He'd tend the door himself in high lace up boots, orange rhinestone hot pants, a tight black t-shirt, and black boa with orange swirl.
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1768218
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17681817
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Buddy was in a garage band. They were pretty good. “Soul Harbor“ they called themselves.
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17683915
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If I had been a cat you probably would have kept me forever, even with an incurable disease. I think about that every time I clean the litter pan, especially late at night.
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176800
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His mouth smiled but his icy eyes did not. "You like it?," he asked with a thin deflated voice. "Old family recipe. Enjoy."
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176852
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And the voodoo pins pinged as, folding and imploding, she was reduced to a petro-chemical puddle.
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