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True story: T.S. Eliot introduced Virginia Woolf to new dance steps including the Grizzly Bear and the Chicken Strut.
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After shooing away the filthy pigeons and closely inspecting the bench, he squinted with his good eye at a second-page article on noise abatement headphones.
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For you I bring the circus, I reinvent
the shine
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I bought some charlatan art / and hung it on the wall
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With her head thrown back and mouth open she howls into the dark green night, letting her gloved hands droop like the front paws of a dog. A large orange corsage attached to the bosom of her gown.
Around her thick neck, a ribbon of black velvet. Her p
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My mother told me I came out of her screaming and didn’t stop for two years. After that I took up rocking.
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16012011
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We invent our beauties//
as we find them and engineer/
our horrors
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It was with the departure of their last child that the Beazleys became grotesquely petty with each other.
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Butchie was the one who heard about the bonfire happening over on Harrison Avenue.
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"We regret the inconvenience. Due to hijack activity, we have orders to secure this flight. Please remain seated. We will be landing shortly. Thank you for your cooperation."
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So I went to see the wrinkled
and rumpled poet, who insisted
on reading from memory, stumbling
through his sheaf of poems.
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160032
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So I’ll wait for her to clear all burden from her head and feel the ocean move us. Stand up, walk over to me and kiss me as we glided through open water.
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1600108
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Nothing good comes from being lowered into a well to take a photograph, boy
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1600148
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She walks ahead, dropping matches as she goes. Grassland is consumed by flames and when I arrive all is wasted.
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‘They will follow, but we have to go now’
‘Wait , I can see something familiar...’
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Naomi saw an ad in one of those slick circulars that came in the mail. ' Wigs by Paula."
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“Don’t you wish it always ended that way? The right people fall in love? Romance leads to marriage? God, that was a great movie.”
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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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I dared to dream whether she was coming or was she going
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In a corner of a neighbor’s land too stony to till Cob makes a mystery.
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The investigator starts by accumulating facts, as many facts as he can. He sifts through them with meticulous precision, leaving no leaf unturned, no page unread.
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Down in the basement, as far away from the Arizona sun As we could get, we were led by a man that loved the word Motherfucker. He said this was where we belonged. In the basement. He told us science fiction had rules: 1. Don't read anything…
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159921
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The air has its dark confessional, and I have mine. Hot is called raw by some, hate mixed with malice for others. I am only separated by this dark window of time from you, but you never feared the lovely or the lonely.
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At any moment, she'll come outside to pick up the day’s newspaper. He can see it resting beneath the blooming crape myrtle, its plastic wrapper glistening with dew.
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...galaxies burst into an infinite slide-show of the absolute... god?
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159932
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A true Rowdies fan begins every conversation about the band with a legend. She would be impressed if he knew the story.
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We lived on the edge of a tiny Iowa town, and picked corn fields were steps away.
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