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but I pretend again I've kept the prairie/
out, have battled back the smoke and dirt
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156521
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the Griot Grrrls stopped playing their distinctive brand of power progressive acoustic worldfunk at open-mics around campus
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156586
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156584
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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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156520
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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156500
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We all ran out of the house into the communal garden without fences. There stood Von Rotten with a smoking rifle in his hands, and our mascot Digger lying on his side, limp. We all looked at each other in disbelief.
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This morning I heard her downstairs trying to get away silently. I knew she would write a short goodbye note. I knew it would tell me her reason for leaving —she had to be free of my indifference. I dressed, finished my coffee, backed out of the driveway and went to…
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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156452
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We lay in what we have made, minute fleshy bullets in the target we have made.
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156421
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Librarians love me,
you want to know why?
I don’t dog-ear pages,
I don’t even try.
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156421
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"I who?" Mrs Caterpillar slithered closer to the door, peeping through the peephole with her stemma. Upon visual inspection, she discovered that it was Mr Earthworm standing outside in the rain.
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156422
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I think fat will just appear, like a narcotics cop at my door, or something.
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156465
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the names / she carried (within)
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There was something about her eyes that he couldn't shake.
He stood in line, waiting for his chicken finger tenders and one large size 32 oz. cola. No salad (a childhood aversion he had never abandoned), and no mashed potatoes. Friday night and the eve
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Now comfy is as comfy does, but when sleeping strange, please accept a wide range of cradle, crib, cave.
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156300
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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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Requires one of those leaps.
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1563103
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Kitchen.
sandwich.
wife.
daughter.
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156365
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I'm sitting on the B-line toward Park, and there is a woman with the same black bob as Mad TV's Miss Swan, and she is leaning the whole front of her body against the whole pole in front of me, and even though there is plenty of space around her, she is pressed up…
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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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156355
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What does she have / that I don’t have / that I can’t buy / for myself?
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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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His mouth went dry, but he managed to say, coolly, “Just how would you like me to do that, Sandra?”
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I can take you away, away, away.
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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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Harris Tobiasharristob@gmail.comThe Alarm A terrible clanging in the middle of the night roused me from my bed. I put on some clothes and hurried into the street there to mingle with my bleary eyed neighbors. At first we thought it was a fire but there was…
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Oh to be young and vigorous.
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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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San Bruno avenue, six shops in eight blocks. Those Vietnamese ladies thrive on the pedicure trade.
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