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His note said: “I’m sick of low attendance.”
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180397
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The day you came to the wedding the sky was so, so brightly July./ I saw my face where I left it the last time . . . .
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180377
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She caretakes, he takes care
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180374
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It was impossible
that you wouldn't love me
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1803116
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One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living
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180251
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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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180233
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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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180200
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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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180266
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Oh, gracious mercy, oh...
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1802138
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180266
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No one writes epics anymore. Why? Perhaps it's because we no longer share mythologies. Once there was a shepherd, and now there is a Google bus loaded with pricks. Yes, you say, but they are good at math. Each and every one of them. And this is true. I envy them…
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180242
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A father's soft neglect has repercussions.
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180231
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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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180200
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Would a chickenshit leave her like I did yesterday?
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180267
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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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180231
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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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1802129
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I had a crappy room on the fourth floor of a crappy hotel.
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18012014
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the doomed, but splendid,
first year GT40.
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180100
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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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1801117
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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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180198
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This is the parallel room I keep my heart in. Got a solo fireplace. I don't want to invite anything else into the story. It doesn't matter if no one knocks on the door ever again. I'm too shy to hope for much more than a couple of Interesting shadows…
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180164
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This year I did not markthe day of your death.I let it slip by in an afternoonfilled with music you'll never hear,words you'll never read,a chorus of voices raised in protestat the unwavering passage of time.I don't need a numberto know that you are gone.Since you went…
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180100
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“He's the one who took five tries to find your vein during your last blood draw, right?” This question spilled from the row of twenty EKG machines that now made up the hospital building's larynx
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180132
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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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180187
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the steady, persistent work of beauty
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18001311
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It’s been a series of bad clams
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180000
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Being awake for the sunrise, that is the good planfor writing poemsand listening to enginesbirdsand bus stop silence.Now, I'm going to smokeout back on my roof porchfrom this atticapartmentin this desert land of big-titted blondesand listen to stadium fansrage…
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1800188
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1800127
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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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180000
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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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