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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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Sunday, Nolan and I drop by the ice rink on 10th and Alma to watch the amateur hockey leagues battle it out in an unspoken yet assumed class war: the buff, unemployed rink bums who can grind ice, cross-check, and stick handle like the pros, versus the dou
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Some books are like old friends and when you read them, you no longer feel alone.
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He thought the scarab was bad luck. I knew too little about omens to argue.
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On the way home, “Friendly honk,” he said.
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in cinematic snippets, ten-second scenes of twelve Sons …
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The bar sounds grew (as bar sounds will) until everything rushed together -- clinking glass, tinkling ice, laughter and zippers going down then up.
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The bird studies me, we lock stares, with no care for who blinks first, birds don’t do macho stand-off.
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my God, I have no time, no time
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“If they look that good in shorts.” I warned him once, in a candid, humorous moment, “Then they’re probably too young for you to look at.”
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It was so hot we walked out on our husbands. There were reasons, we supposed. They left the refrigerator doors open all day, grabbing beers when they passed by, tossing the sticky caps upon counters. They drove their Metropolitans to buy food, leaving th
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Try it with and without/
middle name or middle initial.//
Try different keywords.
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It’s beautiful to look at and to hold/
though true musicians would be appalled/
by the black plastic
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What's the weirdest thing you've ever used as a bookmark? I work in a library. I've seen that, and more.
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My boyfriend unequivocally believed in the existence of aliens. He was the Mulder to my Scully, though when I said so, he had no idea what I was talking about. I never understood how someone so E.T. obsessed could have missed 'The X-Files'.He would look skyward, eyes…
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His thought was shattered then by the horrible grind of the telephone in the hall. Surely not for me, he thought. One of the other tenants has a friend who’s landed vipivka, no doubt after 39 straight days of hunt. Booze is so damnably hard to find
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Under nervously flickering fluorescent lights / your name will grow / fed by the tongues of Those Who Never Leave
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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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God forbid you should break one of the camps precious “rules,” which were more or less like the Ten F'ing Commandments around there.
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The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue just came out, and all over America librarians are flipping through its pages and rolling their eyes. The swimsuit issue, which isn't actually about swimwear at all, but, is, instead, about young, beautifully shaped female…
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the array of regularly spaced wavering human forms floating upright seems to extend endlessly in all directions.
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I don't know if I'm going to get Alzheimer's, but know I don‘t want to. That's why I just read “100 Simple Things You Can Do To Prevent Alzheimer's“ by medical journalist Jean Carper. Doing simple things is something I'm good at. And while I'm…
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Hair today...gone tomorrow
The sun beats down
on my balding crown.
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the air is a fierce tangerine tonight
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This seems to be what happens to the Corporate Zombie Cowboys. They get eaten by their own Zombie Kings.
The hardest part is I can see them coming, I am on the menu, and I cannot avoid them.
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But the world is smaller when I see it /
from the crook of your neck.
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The man who plays his flute every day under the archway near Powell station is not very good. He never plays a real tune, just a series of random notes. There is no rhythm or melody either. In fact, it's not even a flute he…
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Freshly fucked,
Shirley exhaled enjoying the lingering sensations. She always felt lighter after a good orgasm, and this had been one for the record books.
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