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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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182930
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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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182931
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"Heaven-high, choking on our own breath and each other's tongues."
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1828138
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I’m aware I will never be a woman the night you leave me for another city
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182810
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I knew her face but not her hair, at least not the right way up.
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1828159
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Love free of independence is a savage, hungry beast
Phantoms grasping, sweating, gasping 'till her mind could not be freed
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182844
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She has a mercenary way of doing business and she's pretty shrewd. I make her stand outside to smoke her cigarette. I stay inside watching her stance as she violently tugs at the barrel, tearing every ounce of smoke out of it, then stamping it out as I wo
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182864
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Raymond Carver used to write poetry in his car. /
Tonight, I tried it too. /
I have a car like Raymond Carver /
but cannot write poetry like Raymond Carver. /
The car isn’t enough.
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182820
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Nothing more savory than gossip relayed in confidential tones.
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182742
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The little Hannibal Lectors had run like bandits away from the flames and had latched on to their equipment and gear. They screamed as the bugs crawled all over them. When they got back to the station they had to quarantine all their stuff so the bugs w
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182732
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Knocked off around noon, drank some retsina, checked Olympics results. Can’t find Medea’s motivation. Why would she kill her kids?
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1827122
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i miss you/
at times unbearably/
a dull ache that won’t quit
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182751
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‘Oh, and try these. ' She handed me a plastic baggy full of seeds that resembled watermelon seeds, only smaller. ‘If these don't work your problem runs deeper...'
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182735
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My mother and I are close We talk like friends I tell her about people I'm dating She gets excited for me And she asks how it's going When I tell her I think I'm gay She says nothing She does not ask about the woman I am seeing She does not ask how I am doing …
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182700
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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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18271110
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i never much liked Elvis
never did then never do now
he was no Kris Kristofferson
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1826129
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The bus is late; the papers disappear.
The china breaks, and the suit does not fit.
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1826159
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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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182664
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Copernicus spied/a new centrifugal spin:/Bosch saw what he meant.
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182687
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The blues were born on the ghost train that rolled through the Delta and gave Memphis breath back in 1902. It's low moaning sound brought young black men running, dogs hot in pursuit, toward glory that danced in a moonlight…
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and the mass exceeds the buoyancy/
and gravity pulls you back,
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182600
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". . . with the impact of a 18-wheeler jack-knifed into a Mini-Cooper as it hits the surface."
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182673
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I, the energies moving through this body, in this particular parallel reality in this multiverse, am standing out in the middle of the night, under only stars, and surrounded by the soft, organic shapes of a tree line.
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182600
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182621
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(For Dancer and Guitar) …
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182650
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The sound of it wasn't right in his head yet. When he said it aloud he didn't really believe it.
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182600
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We sat in Darrell's truck in the deserted silent world of the down-trodden industrial area of West Berkeley, where no one in his right mind went at five in the morning. "Put the gun away, Darrell," I said. "I mean it."
"I can't help but keep
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1826125
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The heavyset blind woman came into the art opening without a dog or a cane.
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182640
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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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182600
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you choose to be mine
when you take hold of my hand -
silently, i'm yours
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