1745 6 5
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There’s a hole in my sock, just large enough that my big toe keeps slipping out.
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174542
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There were three other guys on the bus. The landlord (or buslord) let us use the kitchen and bathroom in the house he shared with his wife. I rode into San José City College with the other guys, who were also taking classes there. I remember frigid autum
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Every morning if I don't have to go potty....
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174500
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The museum’s catalog description changed much less than the painting over those years. He wasn’t curator-in-chief of catalog descriptions, however, that task went to a curator arriving by another door.
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174521
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She saw no sense in waiting. Waiting was a weakness.
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174521
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Five o’clock, and Madame choosing her evening legs. Elizabeth assisting. Elizabeth will continue to assist until midnight, despite the chaos, at which point the authorities will tell her such assistance is no longer necessary.
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174453
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“Me try anything,” he says, then laughs a little. “You’re fucked.”
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174462
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If you've ever cleaned house because a death is coming,you know it's the same as any other kind of cleaning.Wipe the tables.Pick up the floor.Sweep the crumbs under the carpet.For later.And for the ants.It's different, too.Because you're floating.On caffeine.On muffled…
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174485
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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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174433
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He was a sushi chef, and he would spend hours in their kitchen practicing his knife skills, and the speed with which he can put that there and this in that and so on; and she would see him on the floor most mornings, still wearing that dirty, tattered ban
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1744128
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He said his wife levitated.
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174476
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She tells me I have to face the fact that I have the heart of the Tin Man. I know the story. He had none. She is very sensitive and I have to measure my remarks because words bruise her so easily. So, I…
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174400
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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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Sharpie marked, Free Still Works
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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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174352
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We lay in what we have made, minute fleshy bullets in the target we have made.
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174364
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the first day of preschool/ my mother walked me down the street/ to a tall building that cut/ like a knife made of bricks/ right into the street,/ an american flag/ sticking straight out/ just above the door.
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174384
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When Roger was small his two favorite toys were a tiny, squat doll called Care and a rubber millipede.
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174221
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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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174282
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Entering that darkroom is like slipping through the barrel of a rifle.
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174251
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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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1742169
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If love could only by heat be bound
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17422011
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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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174210
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Lu peeked at his cards again. They were still jacks, and they still looked mighty nice.
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174262
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"What the fuck are you looking at, Carl?" She snaps, turning her head toward me as the truck edges off the road and into a field of tobacco, into those broad green leaves of ancient sacristy and modern ablution. This is not a blissful kind of field. It is not full…
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174271
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I’m in high leather boots; I’m talking many dead cows here and I respect that
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Walking home, carrying his guitar case, Jed felt the sums of his life adding up to dangerously high numbers, the deadly inertia of vaguely comfortable apathy swallowing his time. His moment would soon be fading. Because, like many young men before him, Jed…
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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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