1805 6 6
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Now, at last, she finds what she's been searching for. Worms. Like bitty pale larva, like half-moons of air trapped under fingernails. She thinks she sees one twitch; she blinks more furiously and hates herself for it.
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1805 6 7
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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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1805 7 4
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It was impossible
that you wouldn't love me
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1805 11 6
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One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living
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1804 6 2
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We’re on our way out, my brother and me, to the graveyard.
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1804 5 1
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I sat on the corner of her desk ... Angela Merkel can be a sweetie when she wants to be.
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1804 20 14
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the doomed, but splendid,
first year GT40.
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1804 8 4
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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.
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1804 3 3
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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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1804 0 0
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There are three ways I can love you, not even half of one more.
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1804 20 13
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1804 0 0
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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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1804 10 6
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are you like the rest of us and you disagree with war yes i said i disagree with war and he said only one man agrees with war but he won t go to the war
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1804 6 6
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Oh, gracious mercy, oh...
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1804 13 7
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His note said: “I’m sick of low attendance.”
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1804 0 0
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Would a chickenshit leave her like I did yesterday?
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1804 12 9
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I had a crappy room on the fourth floor of a crappy hotel.
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1803 11 7
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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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1803 3 3
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Don’t worry about what went aloud. I said nothing.
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1803 13 8
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1803 17 15
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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?
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1803 3 2
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We fold it end over end, meeting in the middle where she takes it, and I let go...
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1803 8 7
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the steady, persistent work of beauty
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1803 3 1
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I cannot find my way back to the bubbling navel of the universe because of Spongebob Squarepants.
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1803 9 9
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Your honour stinks of failed fishing trips to Galway.
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1802 0 0
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There is a feeling in my hands,
fingers,
a restive, potential energy,
drawing inward, reaching
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1802 13 11
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It’s been a series of bad clams
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1802 3 2
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Jesus was a cancer survivor and possibly a super nova.He ran with the Wolves of night time, with the women of the paleolithic era and hunted for meat when the blood didn't drip to their feet and create veritable red shoes like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.I am no longer in…
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1802 12 7
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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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He awoke with a start. This was not the first time he did so. He couldn't afford these occasional bouts of sleep. And certainly not in the land of the Tsantsa hunters.
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