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In my upper room, a sermon/
was playing about sundry.
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183072
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When the black cloth falls on you all food tastes like airline food. Every song sounds like Barry Manilow. Every poem sounds like Rod McKuen. It’s all just noise to you now.
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183000
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Well, it was on a Monday and you know how bad Mondays are to begin with. I had been up real late the night before playin’ poker and drinkin’. I was thinking that after a couple of hours the hangover would wear off and I’d be okay, but instead I s
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1830119
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Neglected long enough, uncalled for/
by the shrinking language of the day,//
my words abandon me.
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183021
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‘Do I still ‘respect’ you? Ha! - there’s a sweet old-fashioned phrase! I don’t know, maybe not so much ...
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183065
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“Hey honey. How are you?” The man sat down in the office chair, his cell phone pressed against his ear. Light peeked beneath the closed door from the main area of…
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183083
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I think I’ll get a tattoo. Not just any tattoo, one I’ll regret. I’ll catch people peering at it, trying to interpret the twists and swirls of the black ink on my fair skin.
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18301212
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They'd taken so much: ivory, rubber, copper, gold. Wealth for the grabbing. No remorse.
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183097
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The day you came to the wedding the sky was so, so brightly July./ I saw my face where I left it the last time . . . .
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183054
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He reveled in the chase, giddy when just out of arm’s reach. When to catch him, that was the question.
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183032
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We fold it end over end, meeting in the middle where she takes it, and I let go...
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18301512
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You should have
marked that territory like a conquistador,
mounted him like an equestrian, left no
what-ifs in your wake.
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183086
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Get something cheap and light at Target. Trash hell out of it. Encourage baby to urp up in it.
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1830116
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One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living
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182900
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The moon is now at the corner on pace for the horizon. On top of a tall business building in Downtown Newark stop a woman in a hood cloak.
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182932
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Jesus was a cancer survivor and possibly a super nova.He ran with the Wolves of night time, with the women of the paleolithic era and hunted for meat when the blood didn't drip to their feet and create veritable red shoes like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.I am no longer in…
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She burst
Into the glass shop
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182950
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When I got word from Mary Jo, she warned me that Mitchell Parkman was out looking for me with a butcher knife. I knew immediately what I had to do. I packed up my things and sold the Pepsi van and moved up to a room on Regent Street in Berkeley, all the w
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182974
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...something in her raw vulnerability and daring beauty drove these men wild...
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182922
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She thought of an animal checking a scent before mating, and imagined that he said to himself, “All I need is for this woman to be hitting on me.”
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182910
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A powerful song is often a result of imaginative storytelling through a unique “voice” and pitch-perfect musicality.
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182931
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Why won’t my parakeet eat my diarrhea?
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1829112
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Although radiation and chemo rendered him a wraith...
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182920
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I paused in case she said more. Then, “He’s very faint but he wants to talk.”
She leaned forward, chin almost resting on the grey-haired woman in front of her. “Tell him to shout.”
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182942
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So begins your new career in the car service business. In some ways you enjoy it, too. Sitting alone in the cab each day, totally your own boss; you get a surge of excitement inside thinking about the money you'll make in a way that requires so little work. Clearing two…
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182831
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The fabric on the waiting room chairs is stained and matted, but has been cleaned over and over.
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18282014
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the doomed, but splendid,
first year GT40.
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182800
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Dr. van Roos reminded the group that trauma is trauma...
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182800
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After Jonesy entered the bear habitat, he walked up to the biggest bear in the group and punched it square in the nose. The bear was visibly startled. I mean, bears don’t get punched that often. And there’s a reason: bears are ferocious animals.
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Sarge had done this before. Not with this many rookies and not on a one-way trip. This was a suicide mission. The boys didn't know it, but he did. They weren't coming back. Hell, they couldn't come back
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