1822 20 11
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The stunned son knelt to understand then fell, his heart shredded by the hollow point.
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1822 7 2
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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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1822 2 1
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My music teacher, Luigi Biagi, told me that he was done with me. He said it was time I moved on to more specialized teachers. Since my passion was composing and arranging, he recommended Al Fine.
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1822 0 0
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Walking to Colorado? He doesn't have that kind of time.
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1821 3 1
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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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1821 18 13
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One must be drenched in words.
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1821 0 0
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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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1821 16 11
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In my upper room, a sermon/
was playing about sundry.
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1821 2 2
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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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1821 5 5
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And besides, since winter is coming, the dying clammy ground cherry makes a good Pilgrim hat for the fieldmouse. We found one the day after you left, at moonset, in the garage, building a nest with toilet paper in the air filter of the car.
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1821 3 1
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Why won’t my parakeet eat my diarrhea?
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1821 10 3
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When she was nineteen, she began to brew a baby in her belly. She named it, and sang to it, and organized the leftover hand-me-downs that hadn't been worn ragged through by the first seven sets of recipients.
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1821 12 12
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They'd taken so much: ivory, rubber, copper, gold. Wealth for the grabbing. No remorse.
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1821 3 2
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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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1821 0 0
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Every time Hector left his home he wondered if it was for the last time. It was Monday at 2:45, so he was standing in the bedroom near the tall mirror, staring into his dark eyes. In the past, she would lovingly help him dress with her tiny, perfect fingers. She…
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1821 10 3
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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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1821 8 6
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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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1821 8 4
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Her purse still hangs on the knob by the door, and seeing it is all that keeps Josh from freaking out because he knows she can’t go too far or too long without her purse.
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1820 5 5
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Train 664 leaves Thirtieth Street Station bound for New York City at 10:55. Concurrently, Train 663 leaves the station, headed for Harrisburg. Both trains are, confusingly, called The Keystone.If Mark and I have tickets for Train 664 because we plan to…
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1820 3 0
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She burst
Into the glass shop
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1820 2 1
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A sturdy and goatish original by know-nothing punks from the sticks. Who cares if we were puny and smelled like fresh milk? For a few years we played and rocked, even turned the Appalachian soundscape a little brown at the edges. At least at first. Mainly
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1820 18 8
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I told him he was just paying for his sins. He gave me a look. "Why me?" he asked.
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1820 9 6
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It's because poetry would not do
because the fireflies were alive that night, aflame
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1820 10 9
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1820 9 9
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Andalusia I. partners in sunset the hawk and I in ballet ..............................he:..........the small flame in the wind ..............................I:............the last tremor of grace the…
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1820 2 3
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But the boy next door is worse than a dweeb; he's a prima donna and a bully and a little shit to boot. The divorce will only make him more.
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1820 0 0
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You can’t start living in The Netherlands just like that; you need to be registered first. Once an official has confirmed you’re the person you claim to be, you can start in a job. Once an employer has confirmed you’re employed, you can apply for yo
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1820 15 9
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We liked the orderly Newtonian/
with its fundamentalist action/
and reaction, its rules
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1819 4 0
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Children, afraid of dogs cried. There was uproar of melee. Children strained at their leashes to get away.
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1819 0 0
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Dr. van Roos reminded the group that trauma is trauma...
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