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They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
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the birth of a long, dark age//
where the wealthy will be eaten by the poor/
and the poor will be eaten by disease
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IT's like, 15 words. Do you really need a snippet?
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1582115
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when thoughts of you
waffle in through memories scent
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158271
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I’m in high leather boots; I’m talking many dead cows here and I respect that
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158200
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Solomon just makes people leak. Literally.
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published in The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review.
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It's difficult to remember, much less write down, the hard times you thought were unforgettable when you have a full stomach. It's hard to remember that dirty little room you rented in that house, from a Bosnian landlord, on 27th avenue and Missouri. The…
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158200
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When my feet touched the ground on the tarmac at Bagram I cannot begin to describe the feeling I had. It was as if God had spoken to me directly, whispering in the cold mountain air: “Son of Marjan, I welcome you.” The feeling took hold and overcame m
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158266
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At night, I wake up, and Daddy's in the bathroom with a hanger in his mouth....
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1582116
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One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living
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158132
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Chills begin on my hand where his cool lips meet my skin and ripple through me. I try to focus on the road and cock my eyebrow. “Not bad for a 15-year-old.”
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158155
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How would you like to leave the land of your ancestors, the place of your birth, the home of your identity?
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158183
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At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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1581103
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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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he thought of her / longingly
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“Monetising the mecosystem” Theobald blathered, “extend the value proposition, core competencies create cash rich commitment free conurbations…partnership models proliferate non essential services spawning new opportunity…” Peregrine tried to
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Out in the open air, the sun's rays washing over the dead, open fields, Nick lay, his back against the wall of the train platform, eyes facing the sky, hands outstretched to the…
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158163
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Bootsy awoke with a hangover that only brain surgery could cure, a hangover that caused a seam to open in the known universe, leaving Bootsy on one side while all other matter sped away, away.
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15811812
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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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158186
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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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[He] practiced aromatherapy and licentiousness, in no particular order.
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You're a good dog, she whispered to him, a good brave dog. Her face was tight with soap.
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Ok, so I’m sitting here trying to write through a frigging cold. And I. . .Oops, . . . . . . wait a sec!. . . I’m stopped, astounded, stunned between coughing my left lung clear over my keyboard and watching it flopping on the back of my desk. . .
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...to know something people around you don’t know can put you outside of them. And then you can’t get back in...
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158084
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I awake one morning to find that still,
the leaves continue to fall.
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15801012
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A cult is one thing; it defies common sense that a commonly educated person cannot escape cultist thinking and belonging. That cult, A.A., is girded by police, fire, therapy, hospitals, insurance companies, and courts.
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Hollywood is the land of the slow no.
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