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"When we say something is good, beautiful, pious, or brave, what idea or image do we hold in our mind?"
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The javelin was cancelled after the unfortunate incident with Mrs Parker last year, but no one could have predicted this year’s sack race tragedy.
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It felt like he'd just taken his marriage out into the woods, forced it to its knees, and put a bullet through its head. Or they had, together.
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Having read the poetry of Dennison
I hereby give up writing.
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I won't fail at this like trying to fix a leaking sink without mud grease or washers tinier than Cheerios.
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1I don't like it when they leave the heads on.I mean it's not nice, is it.The idyllic order of the abattoir.Mary is on stunning and bleeding.She prefers evisceration.Still, the work's ok and it's her day off tomorrow.Deft hands perform their daily ballet.Mary had a…
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but with a light, a rainbow light which was scattered, maybe she herself was a scattering of light, an infinity of universes caught like the opening rays of sunlight
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Born, he stood up. He wore nothing as often as possible
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dos equis ambar
sits cool and dark
by my side
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Being awake for the sunrise, that is the good planfor writing poemsand listening to enginesbirdsand bus stop silence.Now, I'm going to smokeout back on my roof porchfrom this atticapartmentin this desert land of big-titted blondesand listen to stadium fansrage…
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The eggs got badder as the cook got madder
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The squirrels will not stop peeing on the trees.
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The signal sets the faint young boys into motion
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Q: This name in Basque means “owns a new house.” A: What is “Xavier”?
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He asked me to bury him in Vegas.
Instead, I had him cremated in Trenton.
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Like many little towns, ours has an archive. It is a catalog of everything that happens.
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But they all know the parking prayer...
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Dad must have walked around with me 20 times, the store closed around us and finally he said I could have one. They were all in different poses and sizes, with black spots. Except one. One had silver spots.
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Fingers fan like birds’ wings
cradling the volume,
head hanging low
and lips moving silently...
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For a person you don't know, a stranger with a lot of place, you think much of him.
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Librarians are hiding something. What is it?
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a dry bony voice/from a desiccated soul/coughs up its own throat.
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you hear the knell of kindness
long before its cathedral voices -- a recessional --
barters better times.
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It was the first time I had ever seen a possession.
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When the Borgias ruled Italy they had murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love and 500 years of democracy, and produced the cuckoo clock.
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How much do book editors earn? Peacock Love. (aww…)
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I tell my woman friend the new man's penis is too large. I tell her once. She asks me later whether I asked about it at the doctor's—large cock, she calls it, and I say I told the doctor my boyfriend's in a wheelchair.
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Her preferred post-coital activity is to pant, to suck in air with urgent greed.
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U-R, UltraReads is my new concept, an experiment designed to suit contemporary need and taste. The handy tablet-size reads can be easily done from your phone anytime, anywhere in the world. Each one comes together with a visual to make the reading experience more…
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