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They sat before the fire and played cribbage. He was a good player, but not as good as she was.
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186130
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the white moon is dangling
by a thread tonight
you close your eyes
and listen to it undress
and suppress, suppress
you listen to it undress
while you yourself hang lifeless
in your own arms
not meaning to do yourself any
harm, not
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186100
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Lighter-than-air flight was back. The skies of the coast were alight with colorful balloons, dirigibles, and zeppelins tethered to their docking towers along the beach, the huge aircraft bobbing in the breeze up and down the coast for miles,…
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186021
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She stepped into a pair of high heeled slippers and began to dance. She was Salome, a witch, dancing like the most beautiful, the most skilled whores of Paris.
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186000
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One day me an' Elvis was down at the riverbank with Huckleberry, chasin' darters an' watchin' barges go by. It was a lazy day bein' a Sunday an' all. We had jest got back from Church an' Mami told me to change my clothes so's that I didn't get my Sunday
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1860119
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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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186065
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He checks the bedrooms first,
then the hallway,
followed by the living room
and the bathrooms.
When he can't find you he takes to calling out,
daddy,
I'm sure the neighbors hear.
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186044
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["This is not a snippet of text. This is only a test."]
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1860105
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Truth came out of it, a little bug that hovered there...
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186022
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This is a wife pregnant with spiders
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185972
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"My dear man. We are not friends we are symbiotic."
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18591514
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it was your hands—caked
with years-old clay & quaking
from too much solitude
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185952
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The courtroom smelled a lot like mold and it was hot as you could imagine. I sweated through my shirt and wondered if he wasn’t dying under his robe. He looked down at me from his bench and I just knew he was going to call me a commie and sentence me to l
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185932
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One thing about being a musician—more specifically a drummer—struggling against the cost of living—more specifically the cost of living in the Bay Area—is that I will do just about anything to earn money.
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185953
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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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185800
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—with spinster goddesses in the middle of things / circling looms.
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185810
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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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18581414
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Life seemed okay…for the most part.
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18582714
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Your writing offended the editors greatly, and we would select certain word choices we disliked, but we truly hated every word, including mere articles, prepositions, and conjunctions.
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18581410
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It is indisputable that poets love roadkill...
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185800
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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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185844
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Your kiss has spread like a fever, persistent and catastrophic for an ill-prepared heart like mine.
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18582218
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The end will film itself/
in charred, eviscerated bodies
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18571511
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Stupidity is not a mask; it is the face / and it is the face that betrays us / always.
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1857118
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“Sometimes when I feel the urge to create, I don’t know whether to grab my paints, my camera, my guitar or my pen.”
“You could have sex,” her friend, sitting in the desk next to hers, joked.
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18571210
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Poor kid. She didn't mean to leave my business card on her kitchen counter next to the telephone. It was a mistake.
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185744
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A man on the sidewalk dressed as a hot dog hits a triangle dinner bell with a clang and yells for everyone to come and eat at Hot Dog Hot Dog. We were feeling more like fish and chips or spicy pulled pork, but there's something about how…
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1857189
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feathered waves of tangerine peach
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185764
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I wanted my sister to not be in that box. I wanted my parents to laugh again. I wanted my friends to actually be my friends and not call me hurtful names behind my back. I wanted my awful cousin to have never come into my room in the middle of the night. I…
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