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Dear Jackknife Ponderosa, I'm stupid. Let's move on. Let's move past the part where I complain, where I struggle with circumstance, where I display my petty arms, and shoot holes in the air. …
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"...you are a freak of nature..."
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159610
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It’s the small stuff. Always. A conversation with a stranger, brief yet so connected it overwhelms you. These encounters can move me beyond my reality, little reminders that, if you just crack the window a little, something very special can blow in.
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159632
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All I wanted was to love her.
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The way things are looking, we haven't got long on this earth. The whole human race is in trouble. And forget global warming, the ground wars all over, the death of the oceans, Pat Robertson, that shit. Those are annoyances,…
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159630
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He did it in front of the waiter and everything.
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159621
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She saw no sense in waiting. Waiting was a weakness.
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159692
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"...just like you rehearsed..."
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We need to keep writing
because the great ones
aren’t always that great
We need to keep writing
to insure that the future
even has a future
We need to keep writing
because the wind won’t know how
or when to listen if we don’t
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159600
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Do not listen to Christmas music out of season. Unless of course you want to ruin Christmas music. Forever.
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159542
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I think for a second that I should have called my husband out to witness this thing, but I am instantly made aware of why I have not.
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Let’s play a game. I’m thinking of a word.
Do we have to?
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159586
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It's true push often comes to shove
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15951212
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They'd taken so much: ivory, rubber, copper, gold. Wealth for the grabbing. No remorse.
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159531
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The orchid trembled on its long stem
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159532
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and i'm almost out of cigarettes,
and fireworks and sorority girls
scream
from down the street.
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159597
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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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159421
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Forgive me father for I have sinned.”
“Tell me how you have sinned, my son?”
Lies, father. I have told lie after lie in pursuit of my personal gain. I have lied to my family, my friends, to thousands of people who desired nothing from me but the tr
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15941513
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I almost kept him
on the shelf with all the trophies.
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159421
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Ripper the dog died after eating a Quarter which had lodged in Ripper's throat choking her to death. Steve Latino buried her in the backyard the next morning. He felt nothing…
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159431
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My small kitchen has barely enough room to turn around in, yet I had the feeling I was being watched. When I experience it again, just seconds later, I realize it was eyes watching, actual eyes, not a camera or machine.
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159463
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During the day we search for truffles. I have a pig named Henry. He is a big help. He wanders the forest sniffing for truffles like a parable of porcine inquisitiveness. He knows what he is doing. He is not just a pig. Nor ordinary pig. He is a French pig
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1594129
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I had a crappy room on the fourth floor of a crappy hotel.
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159400
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Tough boys with loose pants come out at this hour; their long chains swing from low pockets, their virile scent bites like steel in the cold night.
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159341
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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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159332
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fate is an illusion we use to ease the terror of our mortality
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Here are a few tips/instructions to help you out (though I'm sure you'll do just fine by yourself!):Getting to the Apt.:If you're coming from Riverside, you'll want to turn onto Magnolia. So, if you're coming from north to south on Riverside, that means you'll want to turn…
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After dinner, I looked forward to taking a shower and cleansing myself of the day’s mishap. Cher had other plans.As I left the bathroom, Cher nipped me in the butt, taking my towel, skin, and blood with her. I remember writhing on the floor outside my sis
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My fingers are shining
in the underwater afterlife of memory
searching for the nipple-sized mollusks
searching for the solid nature of things
left over from having lived a life
at all
That new rain smell, specifically
I remember that,
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And she's dying like someone who's tried living and failed.
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