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Be careful when you choose your muse,
for she may be a siren.
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173021
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He called me one Friday when I was a kid and told me he wanted to go trout fishing. He had dreamt that I was a worm or a fly -- he couldn't remember which -- but he was sure I would bring good luck to the stream. The next morning, before grandma awoke, I
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173066
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Oh, gracious mercy, oh...
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1730107
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I threw my hand / at the gearshift/
the car glided off.
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173075
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The man and the lady loved to laugh. She would tuck her hair back and lay her head on his stomach after dinner while watching old scary movies on Thursday nights. She would listen to his stomach digest the food and laugh then, he would laugh and…
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173093
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Where I work people use words like leverage. They do not appear to denote anything.
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173042
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Renee said, "I have actually slept with a number of Captains of Industry and would rate them, overall, deficient in skills."
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173000
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A group of nuns arrived in the middle of my first night at Hinsdale Hospital. I guess I must have dozed off when this odd noise, like curtains being moved, woke me up. At first I couldn't make out what that rustling sound was in the hallway outside my doo
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173077
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She caretakes, he takes care
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173010
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you and i exist
outside of the chaos and noise
entwined in eternal embrace
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172950
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In a little dirt church at the end of the world stands the ikon of an unrecognized saint.
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172922
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We have a responsibility,” she says, “to enrich our local business community while delivering quality products to customers.” She had brought over some application forms for the Better Business Bureau, and we sit at the big table and fill them out, marki
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17291310
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Fortunately, when the bird hits the sliding glass doors in our den, I know what to do.
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172921
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I didn’t always have this metal thing poking out of the top of my head. I used to be a self-respecting farm animal amongst a barnyard of toys, but then the kids grew up.
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I almost forgot. Her nipples taste like that syrup from a can of peaches. The kind you aren’t supposed to eat if you are 18 or older. The kind that adds baggage to the hips and I’m certainly not about to take out an insurance policy on my ass.
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172986
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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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172844
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The last of your tenuous septum dissolves when you press the nozzle of the neti pot against it.
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172896
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I have always admired flat-chested women.
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1728117
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She smacked his back a couple of times with the flat of her hand
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172800
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The sound of drums blared from down the street. Car horns tried to fight the sound. Mayumi and Keiko saw the size of the crowd walking past them increase.
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172843
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Somewhere in her the name triggers/
a grainy chain of Cheech & Chong
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172821
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She saw no sense in waiting. Waiting was a weakness.
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1728109
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We lived across, the street, across North Govenor, from a pretty art student whose stripper name was Jan the Blonde Bombshell.
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172832
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”My goodness how that child nurses hope,” Edward’s Grandad would often say, “were it not for her where indeed would this family be?”
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1728167
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The sun is going to slice your goddamn face open.
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172842
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I imagined the crystals in my mouth.
Salt flowers blooming on my tongue.
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1728116
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One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living
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172700
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You know what parents have to do to get an Xbox? They don't just stand in line and someone hands them an Xbox, OK? That's sacrifice. They have to sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice. I mean, I chase alpacas a mile every night in subfreezing conditions,
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You know moments like these. You know how your mother ruins them.
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