1822 10 9
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182299
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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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182200
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I went out behind Parker's house and saw Darrell's tent set up in the grass. The flaps of the pup tent were open. I could see him through the mosquito netting. He had a Coleman lamp burning and lay on his back in his underwear on top of his sleeping bag.
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182267
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When he took Medieval German Lit in graduate school, Ackermann read Der Ackermann aus Böhmen by Johannes von Tepl. His professor was amused both by his last name and that his grandparents were Germans from Bohemia. Of course, only his grandmother was from Bohemia and…
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182223
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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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1822159
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We liked the orderly Newtonian/
with its fundamentalist action/
and reaction, its rules
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182134
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IT's like, 15 words. Do you really need a snippet?
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182140
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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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18211611
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I don't know how long I was down on the curb. When I came around it took several minutes to realize that it wasn't the moon overhead at all but a street light and the sticky feeling stuff I was lying in was, yeah, my blood. And the hand on my shoulder wasn't hers. I…
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1821127
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as i sink down into the
shadows crawling like a worm
past cold bricks
centuries old in my blood
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182110
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Leda looks back over her shoulder at us as the swan
grips her from behind while at the same time nipping at
the nape of her neck. She's a freckled child and
a little frightened. There's a dark smudge beneath her eye
where the shadow runs. The swan
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182131
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behind the curtainof a ballsy fragilitythere lives an easethat was not easythere exists a gracethat is not always gracefulbeauty can maskcheekbones that sometimes look sadwhen they are smilingeven grin determinationneeds downtimethe prize is still thereeven if the eyes…
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182196
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It's because poetry would not do
because the fireflies were alive that night, aflame
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1821107
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Most everything is white because white means clean and hospitals are supposed to be clean. They wouldn’t let me leave.
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182100
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“He's the one who took five tries to find your vein during your last blood draw, right?” This question spilled from the row of twenty EKG machines that now made up the hospital building's larynx
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182120
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I am a shadow. Cooler than liquid. I don't need a container to take shape.
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18202014
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the doomed, but splendid,
first year GT40.
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182032
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He lit another reed - a new score orchestrating in his head - his thoughts swirling around the older man; there was something else going on here…
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182011
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Only ever been twelve men on the moon. And one cheese.
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1820136
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With the morning comes the repetition...
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182066
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No one writes epics anymore. Why? Perhaps it's because we no longer share mythologies. Once there was a shepherd, and now there is a Google bus loaded with pricks. Yes, you say, but they are good at math. Each and every one of them. And this is true. I envy them…
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182000
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1820116
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One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living
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181932
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He was drinking heavily again and complaining that there was nothing fresh worth writing about.
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181932
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I've heard of sucessful marriages where there's very little sex.
My heart aches for that kind of love.
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181900
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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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181900
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There are three ways I can love you, not even half of one more.
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18192013
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1819188
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181900
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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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