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My music teacher, Luigi Biagi, told me that he was done with me. He said it was time I moved on to more specialized teachers. Since my passion was composing and arranging, he recommended Al Fine.
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The mulch vendor is a crook but we have no choice, not with the shortage of soil. Have to guard the stuff, put alarm wires around the garden, leave a friend in charge to spot the thieves if you go away overnight. If you…
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Entering that darkroom is like slipping through the barrel of a rifle.
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The next thing we knew, the KGB started tailing us everywhere we went. They must have heard about Lenin’s Paintings, was all we could figure. Because, what if they were real?
That night we went out to a pizza place where we saw the worst graffiti in t
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She'd no doubt catch the guy's eye in the act, flash her smile and laugh in his face as an insult or invitation, depending on how she wanted things to go.
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But no matter how we died, we all end up here, in the Meadowlark Children's Cemetery.
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Every morning if I don't have to go potty....
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They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
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As a boy I fished under the Tappan Zee bridge which spans the Hudson River above New York City.
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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Hurried, hassling suit in front of me is being awful to the barista. So she refuses to serve him, turning away.
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We lay in what we have made, minute fleshy bullets in the target we have made.
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[He] practiced aromatherapy and licentiousness, in no particular order.
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...the loving and very painful hurt of our daily sustenance
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If love could only by heat be bound
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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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The separation—the plan—had been a long time coming. After years of fighting and therapy and apologizing and, finally, silence, their marriage was about to die of exhaustion.
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Falling Water almost fell./
12 million dollars later//
it will splay itself a little longer
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Smoking is like hooking up with an ex-girlfriend: you know she's bad for you and that it won't work out, but it feels so familiar and comfortable and so easy to slide back into.
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the steady, persistent work of beauty
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All were part of the household of Court Astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
who lost his nose in a duel as a student
and went through life thereafter wearing a gold prosthetic one instead
and who met and fell in love with a commoner who bore him eigh
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"...you are a freak of nature..."
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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I don't know how long I was down on the curb. When I came around it took several minutes to realize that it wasn't the moon overhead at all but a street light and the sticky feeling stuff I was lying in was, yeah, my blood. And the hand on my shoulder wasn't hers. I…
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There's this sepia-toned photograph, which my mother gave me, of my brother and me when we were still both youngsters. In the picture my brother's dressed in a skimpy checked suit whose sleeves were already too short for him — on its way to becoming my
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And there sat one man. Searching for words and solace. The silence returned and the colors peeled off from the walls. Darkness returned with fledgling light. He threw back his head and filled the emptiness with his laugh. He laughed in mirth and in misery
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