1843 5 2
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I considered explaining that the universe is still evolving and changing, but the look on her face said GENESIS ONE.
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1843 2 0
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You were at a saloon on Water Street. Witnesses say. You were taken out of the place and put on a sloop against your will. Witnesses don’t say.
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1843 1 2
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It wasn’t funny. It wasn’t scary. It wasn’t great. And it never is with people.
Except..eventually..when you meet the right person..it is.
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1843 0 0
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an ominous figure of fear and grace a ball moves back and forth
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1843 21 11
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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …
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1843 5 4
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1842 2 2
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I flung the basketball at the hoop and Cooper shagged the ball. He was the luckiest bastard I knew. ...
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1842 10 9
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It was all I was convinced / in designing the encounter.
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1842 6 6
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There is a push-up on the ceiling. I don't know how to get it down. I've tried hitting it with a broom. That just made it blow steam. I asked my wife, did you do push-ups on the ceiling? She did. Why? It's easier up there. The cat doesn't bother me. Well, you left…
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1842 3 1
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the future wrapped up in a dream
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1842 6 3
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You took up residence on the dark side of things, a bolthole in a wind-flayed right angle of a tower block where pigeons and suicides tumbled blackly on the air currents. You set about drifting off from who you were on a tide of cheap whisky and bad poetry, graduating…
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1842 5 2
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1842 15 6
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1842 26 13
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1842 10 6
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He is drilling the door of a safe to access the keys he locked inside.
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1841 12 12
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1841 5 3
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Having sex with her there made me feel like a child molester, I said. She said it made her excited.
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1841 8 7
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what is raised up must rest on its foundation.
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1841 6 6
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A son packs his bag - bottled water, extra masks, and jerky. Mom paces behind him. “Don't go.”
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1841 4 5
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Jack would have felt betrayed, and my parents alarmed, had they ever suspected me of playing with Jack's guns, but I found the temptation overwhelming.
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1841 0 0
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Sometimes he could feel so small he believed he could fit through the eye of a needle.
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1841 9 7
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I stand at the edge of the water naked as a newborn. Tiny ripples lick my toes.
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1840 6 2
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1840 5 3
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Hunger only makes people hungry, but bad hair can ruin your whole day.
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1840 7 4
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"Merry Christmas, Willie."
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1840 4 3
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take back all the falderal
and friggin' fiddle dee dee
take back the mad murmuring
of ten minutes ago
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I thought each day died inside the clock.
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1840 11 10
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When her husband left she was not yet thirty
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1840 2 1
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"Look, Ted, I'm on a timer. It's really hell here, you can't imagine. And I have a chance to get paroled early, if you do me a solid."
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1840 12 11
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The cataclysm of all those photons/
mad to be a part of you
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