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Tell them words are math counting forever four letters of truth
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148178
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“You should've let him drown,” she once told me. Doesn't she see that I did? I'll let her drown, too.
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148177
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can they approve, our/gods in our wallets? only/when we tell them to.
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148177
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When God blessed creation, a ewe gave birth to Adam. When he cursed Satan, Eve hatched from a crocodile's egg.——In naming the animals, Adam marked them for death. His own name was a slow fire. Eve's was an inferno.——In the shelter of the Tree of…
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148172
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It’s not just the mailman. It’s the logo on the mailbox down the street. It’s the uniform. It’s any man or woman in the whole unsettling profession.
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148121
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Judith was a bed wetter. Judith was a first-year college student and she was embarrassed that she wet the bed.
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148152
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I know what he meant.
I've been in the 3 A.M. cream cheese.
I've known the hole in the bagel.
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148176
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I’m supposed to be writing poems but it’s Saturday morning and I’m watching cartoons.
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148174
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I married a penguin. Her waddle made for a scenic view.
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148100
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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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148021
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‘Miguel! A pint of Guinness, please!'
I might as well have asked for his mother's immortal soul. A smile as benign as a stiletto. But he served a clean and tidy pint.
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148053
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“Me try anything,” he says, then laughs a little. “You’re fucked.”
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148000
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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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1480168
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Her clothing style varies from grunge to glamor and . . . she always looks good.
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148000
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148075
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they got some heat here in the West
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14801611
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he thought of her / longingly
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148063
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If he had not just decapitated a chicken, he was a man I could have loved.
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148020
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Summer nights in Boston, old cast iron streetlights.
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148010
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Alicia got to third block early and scribbled down some of the derivatives homework. Others trickled in intermittently, drifting to their seats like impurities getting caught in a filter.
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147984
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Under no circumstances can you say "fuck" when you're working in a public library.
Especially in the junior room.
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147900
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They stride the earth of their own accord, knocking down bridges, buildings— obliterating whole towns with each pendulous swing...
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147995
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Uzma accepts my invitation for dinner.
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1479119
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"Jesus was a zombie?" I ask, shocked.
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147997
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1479147
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where is the magic at?
the spit
the dirt
or the words?
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147941
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My ride, my good friend Morning was due any minute, but of course, he/she was always late. My costume was a dog. I was stuck to another dog, in the act of passion. A stuffed one. A basset hound. I said my name was Lightning.
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147961
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In his mind, he could hear Eve’s voice, “We had some good times, didn’t we?”
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1479158
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Your girlfriend with the Dresden blue eyes with the sleek belly & gorgeous scars from ripping off Avenue A dealers has you on a leash of short-term amnesia. You can't recall the last time you got off from being trigger-happy inside her & you formed a…
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1479155
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"when I say bag, what I mean to say is…"
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