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Where I work people use words like leverage. They do not appear to denote anything.
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1724238
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To be honest, I've always wanted to be black
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172444
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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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172496
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I have always admired flat-chested women.
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172433
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Karen likes to make a big deal about life experience. Specifically how much more she has than me. What that actually means, she's never made clear. The definition changes and mutates as the years go by, always in her…
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172466
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Oh, gracious mercy, oh...
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172432
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The most beautiful possible thing is to deprive all places of their meanings.
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172442
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I imagined the crystals in my mouth.
Salt flowers blooming on my tongue.
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172410
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you and i exist
outside of the chaos and noise
entwined in eternal embrace
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1724116
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One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living
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172300
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Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. It was an unexpected meeting, but one that was sure to bring a lot of change for both. They met at a work event. Some friends wanted to put together a company and they had both been invited to be part of the project. Boy smiled. Girl remained…
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172350
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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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172300
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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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17231310
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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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172321
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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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172310
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Either they got married in the church dressed in their mothers’ bridal gowns, gaudy and ancient dresses with off-white lace faded from years of hanging in the attic, or they snuck down to city hall...
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172331
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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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172332
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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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17231812
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He spends his Sunday morning spraying WD-40 through the straw-like stream attachment at the expansive paper nest of beige and ivory striped wasps.
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“Man, that Fats just nothin’ but a powerhouse, nothin’ but ‘Jesus Rolled Away the Stone’ and them Cats his apostles.” La KeeSha replied, “Ya’ll a real Blues Daddy now.”
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1722185
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The day you came home, after three extended tours in Afghanistan, I wanted to welcome you at the bus station, but I was afraid you'd attach yourself to me again.
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1722119
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Be careful when you choose your muse,
for she may be a siren.
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She smacked his back a couple of times with the flat of her hand
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1722117
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He said stuff like
‘Crikey that's a knife',” she said, “it was bad, really
really bad.”
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172200
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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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17221212
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They'd taken so much: ivory, rubber, copper, gold. Wealth for the grabbing. No remorse.
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172200
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I woke up around 6 pm today. As always, mum would wake me up. I have this special bond with my bed and parting with her during my most vulnerable is anathema to my nature. Thrice mum would pull my feet and thrice I would groan hoping she would go…
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172200
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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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172220
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I am a shadow. Cooler than liquid. I don't need a container to take shape.
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Is it you with that fucking gold and platinum yacht?!?
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