1612 12 7
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What purpose other than misery/
can cancer serve? And Parkinson's,/
AIDS, and STDs?
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16121110
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Some of them are notorious tweakers. Nobody epitomizes the cowboy-outlaw biker more than the ironworkers, who are wired on Black Beauties they sell on breaks.
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1612103
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Often I eat lunch at the hospital. The cafeteria may be the best place to eat in town.
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1612127
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But those burning red numbers persist in my mind
and I can't rest 'till they're gone
They always come back
Like the cat in that childhood song.
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161141
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She heard mortar fire, whose percussive power rose above the tapping typewriter keys. A perspiration of terror broke on Loretta’s brow, under her arms. Then suddenly, the whistling of shells.
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161145
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In all the years we lived here we never had any issues from the power towers behind our house, other than them being slightly unsightly. I didn't even notice them when we would socialize out back, especially when drinking. When it rains you can sometimes
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161110
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The separation—the plan—had been a long time coming. After years of fighting and therapy and apologizing and, finally, silence, their marriage was about to die of exhaustion.
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161185
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It’s a grey and stormy day naturally
We’re crowded into a tiny bus shelter
as it pours 57 varieties of cats and hounds
They keep hitting the pavement around us
with the splatting sounds those animals make
when falling out of the heavens
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161155
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Where you used to exist, there will only be spaces.
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161161
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ANTHONY I decide after Jill and I have dinner at her flat and smoke an enormous joint that I need to call Tyler, a conversation I'm not particularly looking forward to. I leave and she's not happy, but I tell her I have homework and we kiss a little bit…
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161186
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It's true push often comes to shove
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161110
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My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ...
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161110
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161055
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Each person in each car could be poetic/
Duende, but they look at each other and ask/“Did you fart?”
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161071
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Scales were installed on station platforms. Those who were overweight were turned away
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160932
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It was hard to believe that, even very recently, there had been first days of school where nothing happened.
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16092313
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I am abandoned to the mundane/
calculations of a small mind/
trapped by small considerations
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160921
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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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160978
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The weatherman can't predict
accumulation. He can only tell you
it will be cold. Expect ice, wind, snow, expect
delays. Your daughters play outside,
dancing around the Evergreen, its branches
bearing the weight of snow, its branches
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160910
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He lost his patience and began ranting and raving, angry that he had to come home every night and feel like he was being smothered by a pillow. “I can’t make it stop,” she said. “I can’t make myself stop feeling this way.”
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160893
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cymbals guy — another way of saying hey turdshitface haul your skinnyass to the front of the bus.
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160845
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I have/been you/years before/of course
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160810
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*A"Cento" which is a "patchwork poem" using the words of other writers. for V.W. …
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160853
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Although still uncertain of whether she was a she fish or a he fish (she definitely hated being an it fish), the fish liked what she saw of Nags Head. Finally, a world that gave her a choice. And felt no need to verify whether she was a real she fish, or just a he fish…
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160831
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Why won’t my parakeet eat my diarrhea?
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160810
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Either they got married in the church dressed in their mothers’ bridal gowns, gaudy and ancient dresses with off-white lace faded from years of hanging in the attic, or they snuck down to city hall...
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160833
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Some trick of the morning light makes the tattoo on her ankle look like the burn from a branding iron. She had watched her father as he slept last night. He was handsome and innocent, like a baby boy.
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160795
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So strange this feelingTo meet someone I've haven't really metTo know someone I don't actually knowTo desire to learn more but sure I never willTo feel connected not knowing what I'm connected toTo read words, thoughts, feel moved by them, but never hear a voice
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160722
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I built the fence myself, strong and high and aesthetically pleasing. It was high enough to provide privacy on both sides, but from my bedroom balcony I could see everything. More than I wanted to see.
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160732
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He was drinking heavily again and complaining that there was nothing fresh worth writing about.
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