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"Everything except food and sex."
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17622312
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Good buddy Jesus./
Life coach Jesus. Enthusiastic//
and optimistic Jesus, no cross/
or crown of thorns in sight.
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176200
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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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176100
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stoplight - (haiku love series - #2)
eyes lock in a gaze
glimpses of my future spark
then you walk away
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1761105
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That Dagwood is not a real person but a story told in dots. That Blondie is a male fantasy and will one day find her Nora Helmer.
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176100
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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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1761159
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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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176144
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Why you keep a razor blade in your stocking?
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176163
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When the world is quiet, all your thoughts demand attention.
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176165
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They’re persistent, I’ll give them that. They keep coming. And coming and coming.
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176151
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Two fine-young-things scan the menu board of In-N-Out Burger off Interstate 101. Dressed like twins -- hoop earrings, tank-tops and mini-skirts, ballet pumps — you could hardly tell them apart, except for their Cleopatra and Marilyn Manson hairstyles. As they…
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176185
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"There is something in the air. It makes people sick, makes them want to die. They
cannot inhale too deeply for fear that it will turn them mad."
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176140
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I don’t know what to make of this new territory we have stumbled into neither by accident, it seems, or design. Is there a map to be found?
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176120
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They were starting to get winded. The boy, his father and his little brother were hiking up a hill, cutting a diagonal path through hay-colored grass towards an outcrop of craggy boulders below the hill's summit.
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176142
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He picked up a pack of cigarettes and shook it. He flipped the lid to confirm there were none left.
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176130
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Shannon refused to jump from the castle drawbridge to the gigantic truck tire sunk halfway down in the playground quicksand. He just stood there-arms folded across his chest, bony knees sticking out from beneath ratty cutoffs-in silence, looking to Rollie
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1761136
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The three were up early to await the deer with rifles, ammunition, and coffee.
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1760912
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Control and decorum. Manners. Practice such to protect yourself and others.
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17601512
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Leonard didn't know that cute girl well, hardly at all, but he really wanted to. She was his first real crush in Junior High. He got his chance and talked to her some one day while they were walking down the hall between classes. She actually spoke to him first. The bell…
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17602012
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176091
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She was skinny and with breasts like a wound up skein of yarn.
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1760147
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a bird who gives messages
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176000
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Until it happens to you, and I hope, and you should pray, that it never does, you cannot appreciate the consolation of believing that your are merely losing your mind.
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1760118
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The wind has no voice
and yet we listen,
perhaps imagining the ramblings
of a mad man
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176011
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Let there fly the sticky platypus of love, resplendent beak of the sleek.
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175900
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—with spinster goddesses in the middle of things / circling looms.
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175921
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so one time the Holy Ghost come down to Stumptown
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17591812
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There's a man sitting in my room holding a jar of my ashes. That's what he claims.
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175920
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Nothing more savory than gossip relayed in confidential tones.
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175911
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Of all the things Shelly hated about her job, the music was the worst.
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