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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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160031
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At five a family relative took my life away from me and no one cared
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160052
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The past operates with incredible gravity. Powerful, efficient, deceptive. Thin, sleek cords sent out by it attach themselves to your back, your legs, your buttocks, the back of your head. Resist. Walk. One leg after another. Easy does it, like a baby. Do
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160011
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You know moments like these. You know how your mother ruins them.
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160083
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He was supposed to be a garden gnome. Give pause to the squirrels, keep an eye on the impatiums. We found him at Wegman’s. He looked hopeful and observant.
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160021
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A sturdy and goatish original by know-nothing punks from the sticks. Who cares if we were puny and smelled like fresh milk? For a few years we played and rocked, even turned the Appalachian soundscape a little brown at the edges. At least at first. Mainly
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160098
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Bert also said that somebody else at the meeting was complaining about his high blood pressure, and Bert repeated what Hank had said, that he was glad to have any blood pressure at all.
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16001913
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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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160041
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Andrew smiled at her while he pulled out his penis. He then held it between his fingers and tugged at it, stretching it much like a rubber band
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16001414
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A wrinkled man lie atop an ivory-clad mattress, matched sheets covered his body, matched hair covered his head.
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160061
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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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16002213
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Only scotch and cheap champagne/
retain their reliable flavors.
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160000
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We crept to the edge of the cliff and stared down at Lake Travis. In this alcove, out of the churn of the speedboats and pleasure craft, the water shimmered, impossibly blue.
“Didn’t you used to jump off here back when you were getting high?” Ryan said
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160000
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1599103
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Kitchen.
sandwich.
wife.
daughter.
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159965
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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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1599106
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"He turns in his bed, and reaches for a body,
like the blind to braille."
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159921
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For the briefest moment, she was part of the sky. She hung there. Frozen. Suspended. Arms outstretched. She thought maybe she could take off flying, if she strained against gravity hard enough. She would soar into the pale blue until she reached the clouds. They …
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159983
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At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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159921
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he took me hostage as I came out the door.
Nelson took me hostage and we went back to his parents' house. They were gone crappie fishing so I had to spend the whole weekend alone with him. I didn't have anything lined up for Saturday night, so it wasn'
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15991612
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It's the little things that trip us
up: a small hole in a level field,
an innocuous root in a well-trod
path, a disinclined sidewalk...
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159964
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What in the name of God’s green earth does this say? “Chifferobe if you can of Aztec in coffee can”?
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1599107
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I threw my hand / at the gearshift/
the car glided off.
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1599113
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In May of 1982, my daughter and I planned a trip…
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1599129
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now the days are empty
and time has lost its head
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159988
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159984
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He had become an accessory to a murder.
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15991613
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Their nouns are few and stark./
Ours are numerous and dappled/
or subtly shaded and shadowed/
by circumstance and possibility.
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