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Scales were installed on station platforms. Those who were overweight were turned away
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185364
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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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185311
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He introduced himself as Jimmy Stamps and shook my hand with the confidence of a man who is Microsoft Windows certified. Reeking of vodka and Swisher Sweets he proceeded to expatiate on the virtues of X
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1853116
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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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185252
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Almost to the elevation of regret.
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1852148
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And she's dying like someone who's tried living and failed.
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185220
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I dared to dream whether she was coming or was she going
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1852126
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All creatures know death at their very core, a tacit default--
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185231
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We learned to dance beneath a gazebo / in Spring Lake Park / We were fourteen
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185211
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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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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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There are things we must not say.
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185111
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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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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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1851101
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Loving you, I always knew, was a job I’d only get via a dead woman’s shoes. There you were, the recipient of pot roasts, fresh bread, at a loss amongst neighbourhood widows and divorcees. A tide of them rolled over you in calico blouses, cut off jeans
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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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185153
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Wafting wisps of fondness twinkling
in time with fairy lights pointing out lawns in cities
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I write to make visible my small/
assertions against impermanence.
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185185
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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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185193
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Where I work people use words like leverage. They do not appear to denote anything.
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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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My wife goes away for a few days to the little town where Hitchcock filmed The Birds.
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185000
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A Body Divided: Memoir
1
When I came back home, after coming down with polio, everything had changed for me. I'd been gone for forty-five long days and nights. But it was Halloween, a time very nearly sacred for children in the Midwest, and it broug
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185096
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Can I still be in your pictures?
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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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Traveling in half-lit fluorescence, she smiles up at me, pale and strained
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