1826 0 0
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Danica stared at her hand as she felt he warmth of the wind. She remembered Alysia saying that she felt the wind through the heat.
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1825 12 4
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I was more annoyed at the scream, the icy air around us and our eventual destination–his parents, the club, small talk, all that drunken insignia.
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1825 1 1
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Here is “Adrien Brody” through a Freudian lens: Calloway wanted to fuck her father. She flew to New York City to fuck a version of her father who has a name similar to an actor with an interesting nose and a lot of talent. Neither Calloway nor the actor n
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1825 18 8
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Overnight, I felt drunk, as if headed for hangover, but I hadn't drunk enough to cause it. What caused it? Superstitions dialed in sleep.
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1825 1 0
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"So" he started, which troubled me enough to turn back around and make such focused eye contact that I did not even notice his glass was again full, "you wanted to talk?"
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1825 7 2
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Of course the man went tumbling, and though he fell not far, a falling with a body full of meats and sweet breads makes the landing something awful-not so bad that Desperate got it-only so the leg puffed like a blue, rain swollen, earth-bound cloud.
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1824 1 1
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Fingers fan like birds’ wings
cradling the volume,
head hanging low
and lips moving silently...
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When asked to turn over the Church's riches / he brought before the Roman prefect the poor, blind, ragged and infirm.
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A.K.AAmputated narratives of the not yet come emancipatory orderModesty would be forestalled (left aside) in the case of the title "The Mess...."But who can shoulder the visceral (cough) burden of what is to come?" - The God of Trifling Grammatical…
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1824 13 6
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Attached in the center were the petals of a small flower pressed in wax paper. Uncreased, she read it out loud
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we wipe the blood of our progress
from our hands.
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1824 1 1
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The elevator door opened, and Tom ("The Baffler") Frank found himself confronted by Jesu bar Joseph, who opined: "You're WORTHLESS!" and recommended: "Why dontcha PULL your PANTS down, and CUT your COCK off!"
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1824 11 5
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He looked straight at her, not to challenge her, but to better gauge what it was she would throw at him. Her eyes always darted to the thing right before her red, swollen fingers snatched at it, like a thing possessed.
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1823 11 5
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Marge came home with a Doors CD.
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1822 7 8
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I wake up with the taste of mud in my mouth. Ashy, sulfurous, charred, with traces of rotten shellfish.
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1822 4 2
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and to adorn my hair I chose every kind of light
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1822 6 1
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Do you think we die when we age?Or when a car runs over our hearts?We die slowly, minute by minute, every secondBy the time you read this, you've died a little
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1822 4 4
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... if they called her Mother, would she take them home and raise them?
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1822 0 0
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If you want job security on this planet, you'd better study art.
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1822 13 6
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4. Hers blocking driveway, his diagonal in grass
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1822 2 1
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Clare sits bolt upright in the hard plastic chair, warily tracking every passer-by. In her lap, Kim’s hair is damp with sweat, dark blonde curls melting against her flushed cheeks. Clare absently strokes the length, soothing both of them.
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1822 29 14
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You say boxer briefs, I say pillbox hats
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1822 12 10
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1821 2 2
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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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1821 5 4
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The first engine arrived and a fireman heavy with gear stumbled from the side railing.
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1821 26 16
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Poets are more like Jesus,/
suffering the cross
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1821 13 12
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the world slips under the waves
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1821 16 11
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“If 'neighbor' applies to women who covet—'deliriously desire'—husbands from Angers, then one day he'll be your husband's neighbor," I say.
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1821 21 12
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"the rum tasted of hibiscus blossoms"
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