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My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ...
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We need to keep writing
because the great ones
aren’t always that great
We need to keep writing
to insure that the future
even has a future
We need to keep writing
because the wind won’t know how
or when to listen if we don’t
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“When I get like this? What about what you get like this? If you know my answer you know you look like my answer. Otherwise, how would you know my answer?”
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He reveled in the chase, giddy when just out of arm’s reach. When to catch him, that was the question.
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Your honour stinks of failed fishing trips to Galway.
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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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I imagined the crystals in my mouth.
Salt flowers blooming on my tongue.
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you and i exist
outside of the chaos and noise
entwined in eternal embrace
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For the residents of Oak Morrow, entropy is an art form. They break their own windows and crash their cars into their living rooms. Grannies and pets can usually scoot out of the way before they’re crushed under the juggernaut of creativity.
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Scribble something basic with traces of spectacular,pen every pint of pain spilled during the massacrewhittle the convoluted down to the vernacularboiled the whole story, now you got everybody crackin' upnow step back from the business like, “man, that's wack as…
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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.
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War The once shining lake was busy draining itself. All the better cared for boats were looking like disjointed discarded single shoes in a messed up paint chipped closet. No one was thinking well okay a leaky sole is better than a wounded heel. You get the…
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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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Where you used to exist, there will only be spaces.
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When he suggested to her that they make a sex tape, because that’s what everyone was doing, she wasn’t really surprised. And there was a truly repugnant part of it that fit in with her desire for moral self-flagellation.
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When we take Vengeance,/
shave and shower him,/
deodorize and scent him,/
clothe him in a starched shirt
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. . . did you notice yesterday afternoon how for an entire quarter hour five o’clock itself looked for a few minutes as if it would never arrive?
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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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Phil doesn’t know anything. He thinks his truck is possessed by his dead mother.
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Be careful when you choose your muse,
for she may be a siren.
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On Saturdays, we pull out big white poster boards, magic markers, and draw babies.
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I didn’t question any of it and instead sat motionless as she dropped my wrists and walked away seconds later.
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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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It's a good thing too—because Of the way that feeling Made her even more beautiful than usual. You shouldn't doubt such an obvious Feeling. It's a good thing— Because frankly you have Been informed before. When Beauty …
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I threw my hand / at the gearshift/
the car glided off.
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‘Just get out of bed,’ I reply. ‘It looks like the fairies have been at your head. You should turn your clothes inside out. Put out a biscuit. Ring a bell. Buy a rooster; or a recording of it crowing. It will keep the sprites at bay.
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They'd taken so much: ivory, rubber, copper, gold. Wealth for the grabbing. No remorse.
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Every time she tries to sleep they come; legions of small armored things scuttle claws aloft across the purple sand as soon as she stops moving.
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She caretakes, he takes care
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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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