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No, I’m not at the junior high bus stop. I’m at the dining room table with my parents.
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Lu peeked at his cards again. They were still jacks, and they still looked mighty nice.
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Hideki likes the uncomfortable face one makes when trying to "break wind" after eating too many dried potatoes.
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I thought, what are we talking about? Botox?
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We can apprehend beauty only/
by framing it with the photographic/
paper’s edge or the novel’s margins/
and bookends.
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Oh, what jealousy does to us! What love does to the living!
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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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Almost to the elevation of regret.
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Their specialty is the roasted Australian hare, long ears intact, arranged on a bed of sassafras.
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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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I think fat will just appear, like a narcotics cop at my door, or something.
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the names / she carried (within)
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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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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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You enter the lobby of the office building tentatively at first - you're a little nervous about this interview, after all - but you recall how spectacular and professional you dressed that morning. Plus you read through the company's LinkedIn profile at least five times…
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You are a space-walker and a time-traveler...
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She caretakes, he takes care
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All creatures know death at their very core, a tacit default--
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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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Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
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We got our holes in our hearts bundled onto soft wrapping cloth just like the gentleman on TV said; with smiles we set out towards our matching end of the same old stories. That's just the way…
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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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the Griot Grrrls stopped playing their distinctive brand of power progressive acoustic worldfunk at open-mics around campus
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In the dark, alone after she was gone, he would whisper her name into his pillow and fight the tears more out of shear exhaustion than anything else. He had mourned for her even before she had passed, as he watched helpless while the disease marched slowly and…
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It was where the “Suits” worked. I didn’t want to go there, I didn’t want to be there, but in those days one did what one was supposed to do.
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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …
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“Can I feel it?” he reached his hands out immediately, expecting I’d say yes. I am the type to always say yes, right?
“Sure.” I confirmed, swallowing back my fear of his touch. He didn’t seem himself, like this. I led his hands to my hips and let them
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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The other night while we stood in the kitchen locked in each other's stone silence, he finally said, “You're waiting for something to get you to the other side of grief. But there's no such thing.”
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