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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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People were just doing it.
Doing it everywhere. On lawn chairs and stray patio cushions and watching. Watching every one do it.
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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 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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At the graveyard, the leaves had been raked into loose array....
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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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He asked me to bury him in Vegas.
Instead, I had him cremated in Trenton.
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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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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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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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For a person you don't know, a stranger with a lot of place, you think much of him.
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Born, he stood up. He wore nothing as often as possible
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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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The squirrels will not stop peeing on the trees.
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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 was squatting in the living room at the party handling foreign currency. Two W.A.S.P. men in dark grey suits—we were partygoers new to each other—told us to keep the money. We removed the bills from a black leather album.
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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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Fingers fan like birds’ wings
cradling the volume,
head hanging low
and lips moving silently...
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Evening was drawing nigh and Mosby's horse had tired from the daylong ride.
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dos equis ambar
sits cool and dark
by my side
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While I was still new at Black & Twigg, shortly before Thanksgiving, Percy brought me a handwritten memo to type, the subject “Turkey Hunt,” addressed to all Black & Twigg employees in the San Francisco office from management. It said that the firm…
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