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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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165264
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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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1652168
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dos equis ambar
sits cool and dark
by my side
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165233
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Waking in the middle of the night, tangled in the hotel sheets, I wanted to hear the story again: their pilot friend, the war, his specialty. "It's just a screw, son," Dad said, "nothing exotic."
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165286
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you hear the knell of kindness
long before its cathedral voices -- a recessional --
barters better times.
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16521913
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The squirrels will not stop peeing on the trees.
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165241
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My motivation as a filmmaker for traveling to Japan was economic and opportunistic. American military occupation had accelerated westernization and, when Japan regained its sovereignty in 1952, their economy was rapidly expanding. Led by manufacturing and export of items…
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165221
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"Now, I'm not no Holocaust Denier . . . I just think it was a little bump in the road! Like Reagan said about Watergate . . . 'Mistakes were made,' and all. Well, shoot . . .…
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16521510
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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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165244
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... if they called her Mother, would she take them home and raise them?
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165264
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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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165231
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"Heaven-high, choking on our own breath and each other's tongues."
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165292
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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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165121
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The Kharal kept us safe, we knew, kept the colony functional in the oft belabored effort that was living our small, human lives surrounded by death, for in their ring of constant invisible protection, when they did not come, we thrived. It was not as tho
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Librarians are hiding something. What is it?
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165100
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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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1651228
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The eggs got badder as the cook got madder
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Indeed, it was quite likely that no one in town had ever played either of these games. The townsfolk were not big fans of word games, though they did enjoy Whist and Canasta.
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165143
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"I accept it," Leo said in a low voice. "I accept it all. I know who I am, I know who you are, I might even know who Martin is, now. We all have to share this. I think I will forgive you, because I can'
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1651193
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The snake was fang-less and so had to choke her, making the kill bloodless and drawn out, just the way she liked it.
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165121
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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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love notes yellowed through the years
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165041
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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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165011
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Fingers fan like birds’ wings
cradling the volume,
head hanging low
and lips moving silently...
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165022
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mr cummings sounded too formal for a man who didn’t use capital letters. As she climbed the four flights of stairs to the flat, she sang to herself, “I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart).”
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1650198
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Evening was drawing nigh and Mosby's horse had tired from the daylong ride.
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1650119
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He asked me to bury him in Vegas.
Instead, I had him cremated in Trenton.
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1650135
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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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165031
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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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Having read the poetry of Dennison
I hereby give up writing.
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