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Will wondered if Doobie was afraid that it might be nothing but the abyss waiting on the other side, but he promised Doobie he’d let him pass on if it was finally his time.
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Scientists have determined that a tiny freshwater organism known as the "bdelloid rotifer" gave up sex 40 million years ago. And you thought the spark had gone out of your marriage.
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52. they hate the word hate
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Somewhere in her the name triggers/
a grainy chain of Cheech & Chong
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"Did I have a dream, or did the dream have me?" - Rush, "Nocturne"
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Everyone else in the bar was looking everywhere else: it was as though they were alone while Journey played loudly all around. “Streetlights, people,” she sang. Time didn't move. What she must be like while driving, singing to herself with the windows fog
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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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I would be the mortal to hand justice to God. It wouldn’t come in the form of steel from a blade or by gun powder of a revolver, but by my disbelief...
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The most beautiful possible thing is to deprive all places of their meanings.
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I took Annie to the zoo, and the tigers got out. The little tigers, that is. Cubs. Two of them. The zoo employees scurried about, peeking into nooks and crannies.
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15872011
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The suite of dark rooms/
extends forever./
It’s no big deal.
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There is an empty space,
between every note in rock 'n' roll,
where they have buried John Bonham,
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Neglected long enough, uncalled for/
by the shrinking language of the day,//
my words abandon me.
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Bag worms hang in their cloudy white hammocks. This is the month of webs when long-bodied yellow and black spiders sign their autographs.
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My boyfriend unequivocally believed in the existence of aliens. He was the Mulder to my Scully, though when I said so, he had no idea what I was talking about. I never understood how someone so E.T. obsessed could have missed 'The X-Files'.He would look skyward, eyes…
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“Why do you write filth?” they howl
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Jack would have felt betrayed, and my parents alarmed, had they ever suspected me of playing with Jack's guns, but I found the temptation overwhelming.
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Only scotch and cheap champagne/
retain their reliable flavors.
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And the ocean was black and green and blue—as your dress that clung to your body’s curve. Round as the bend of the water trailing the false line of the shore.
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—You must be joking, he laughed.
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It's Granny hauling her crooked soul into heaven. Guess who I stole that image from?
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Kai,
Oh the mathematics of solitude. I wish your father there. I read your wanting subtracted between the lines. He is almost gone. Hallucinates, not awake even though eyes are open. Yesterday he saw the baby brother you never met. I light four ultramarine…
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She caretakes, he takes care
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I had no portent this would occur, /
Ne'er did I see this happening, /
Not days before, nor those coming;
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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We lay in what we have made, minute fleshy bullets in the target we have made.
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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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