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We learned to dance beneath a gazebo / in Spring Lake Park / We were fourteen
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185200
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Such behavior will result in no disciplinary action only: 1) if all blinds are drawn; 2) all doors are locked; and 3) loud groaning is masked by appropriate use of the volume control on the classroom’s closed-circuit TV set.
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185200
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On stage, students from the junior college join children from the community to speak and sing in American-French accents. They are timid, heart-broken, in love, rebellious, faithful, resigned to their fates—and all in the matter of a few short hours.
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18521613
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I wrangle word juice
from the Oxford American, sighing at photographs of blues musicians with solemn lakes for eyes.
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185264
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And then, and then, and then! After all that, this. After all that bullshit with her Dad, the Associate Principal, the idiotic counselor, and that psychotic police officer, after all that, this: a dead black cat. Blocking her path! Right in the middle of the street! …
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1852116
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Altodog was dressed in filthy chef’s trousers and a long-sleeved purple dress shirt, somewhat dignified by a tattered black vest.
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185152
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Almost to the elevation of regret.
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185164
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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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185166
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This is not her death. This is absent-minded omniscience. This is impossible. And then again, the inside-out, implosion. And the hall was clogged with bodies; none of them hers, but who could be sure?
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185122
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I think fat will just appear, like a narcotics cop at my door, or something.
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18511710
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I write to make visible my small/
assertions against impermanence.
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185111
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No way to know why she's here, but scars and scabs can hold more information than a file or chart.
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18511814
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There are things we must not say.
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185111
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Seventeen-year cicadas are the sometimes-singers that surprise spring with the ugliest mouths of all.
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185131
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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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Johan was telling stories about the occupation. The Germans were stupid, he said.
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185163
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I stand corrected once more.
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185011
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The world waited with bated breath as Tiffany stood in the grocery store aisle that housed the various kinds of fruit spreads for sandwiches and toast. She tapped her toe and nodded her head this way and that while she compared the qualities of two jars of…
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185020
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I dared to dream whether she was coming or was she going
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185053
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Wafting wisps of fondness twinkling
in time with fairy lights pointing out lawns in cities
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185000
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Lean closer, she smiles, smell my perfume let yourself be taken to a wild forest where owls grow and trees fly.
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185074
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The officers carried him away in cuffs as he yelled "I NEED STATS! PLEASE! JUST GIVE ME THE STATS!"
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185086
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It's true push often comes to shove
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185085
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They are plastering on lipstick in pay-to-enter toilets
around the corner from the mosques, where old men
sit on back streets selling toilet seats, spices by the
shovel, flashlights, and Audrey Hepburn t-shirts
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185075
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Traveling in half-lit fluorescence, she smiles up at me, pale and strained
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185093
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Where I work people use words like leverage. They do not appear to denote anything.
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185044
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18501213
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My wife goes away for a few days to the little town where Hitchcock filmed The Birds.
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1849124
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"Cooperation and sharing could eliminate poverty."
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“Can I feel it?” he reached his hands out immediately, expecting I’d say yes. I am the type to always say yes, right?
“Sure.” I confirmed, swallowing back my fear of his touch. He didn’t seem himself, like this. I led his hands to my hips and let them
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