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Grace Gibbons is a way of life.
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178121
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(For Dancer and Guitar) …
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178110
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It was stubborn early winter, when everyone was cold but went outside anyways, rubbing red fingers and shuffling feet.
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178142
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He finds a beach ball and recreates humanity upon it. Kicking it down the shore he wonders how the little people must feel about each other. To place them on such a tiny globe almost seems unfair.
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Marlene smiles at me with her lips pressed together. The young girl standing with her can't be more than fourteen or fifteen although she is tall for her age. She too smiles. She has an intricate set of braces on her teeth. I can't tell if Marlene has teeth
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So, like I said. Da. I have dealt with the men, when I was a lap dancer. The men they need the….manipulations. I have good hands. They want me to see them naked, their power. Here it is only the women. The massage, the facial, the waxing...
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If ever I read a poem aloud
It will not be from a podium’s shelter
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As children we invent games and we're really creative. We concoct ridiculous rules and enjoy making adaptations to them. And everything makes sense. Then you grow up, lose creativity. You don't invent games anymore. Recess is replaced with a second…
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Buddy was in a garage band. They were pretty good. “Soul Harbor“ they called themselves.
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I. When my lips mouth yours where they are…
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Because if they’re wavering, it's about the coin, always about the coin.
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Truth came out of it, a little bug that hovered there...
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178000
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that is a fair description of our family if I add the disclaimer that the girls are whores and we don’t have much in common.
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When Kim handed me some of her husband’s condoms—“Here, use these”—out of one of their bedroom dresser drawers, could she sense the astonishment I was trying my best not to show?
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I’ve been such a fool, so reckless and untrue.
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Great Uncle did stunts in silents and shot a man in a cowboy one-reeler, then vanished to the hills like Roy Earle in High Sierra.
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17791710
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“What are you doing, Maestro?"
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I formed a snowball in my bare hands. Hard as a rock, I let her fly.
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Reining her small hands around the molded handle grips, her bottom bouncing athwart and wildly off the seat, Symphony wrenches her center of gravity inward, commandeering as much control from the road it would allow. With her breaks behaving as stubborn
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17792010
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Their bodies, ripe uncovered flesh, had begun to erode, the edges of their limbs and cores bitten, taken by the wind in small pieces, flaking and tearing, some parts sliding, falling away.
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...the astonishing discovery...
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the ugliness will not be denied
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177910
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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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At this time of night, the fluorescence makes his eyes bleed. The muscles in his legs are tight; walking's more of a necessity than anything else. Alexander pushes the shopping cart down the endless gray tile floors of the Grand Union on 35.
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I may be the shadow that I am, but I only ever loved you.
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leaning over the banister, her Christmas waist making the wood swoon and creak, a warning sign if there ever was one...
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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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The end is rehearsed over and over;/
in a world without heaven all is farewell.
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It's a pretty strange feeling when you think you're about to bite into some ice cream and instead it's gazpacho.
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“He spent four lonely days in a brown L.A. haze, and now Jimmy Buffet is dead.” —Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News “Jimmy Buffet—beloved parrot-head singer-songwriter—has given up his search for that lost shaker of salt. He…
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