1738 4 4
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Sitting near her desk, like a dunce cap,
red
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173876
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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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173865
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17382213
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Only scotch and cheap champagne/
retain their reliable flavors.
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173752
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We lay in what we have made, minute fleshy bullets in the target we have made.
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17372013
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17371211
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Coward, cuckold, she taunts: So be it. He's not a young man anymore, nor as clever as he once was, or thought.
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173721
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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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173733
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Nearly everyone knows of that celebrated poet’s story coming down to us from classical Greek mythology: the tragic tale of Orpheus and his descent into the underworld to rescue his beloved Eurydice. Well, there’s a much lesser known story of a legendary 7
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173784
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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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173753
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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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173700
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If you were the ozone,
I’d want to leave you gaping.
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1737105
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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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173632
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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173600
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The money stank on the table. Money is dirty she said, one of the dirtiest things. So many people touch it. This pile of brine would not explain its reek, only demanded that we accepted its stench as requisite. It had to have been the cash that stank, prior to its arrival…
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17362011
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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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1736138
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Every morning if I don't have to go potty....
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173610
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My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ...
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173696
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I cannot begin to list all the ways this conversation can go downhill from here, so I hang up the phone quietly.
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173521
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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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173596
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A horizon shrinks a burden until it’s a seagull getting fat off vinegar fries. I’m in love with the way your mouth moves when you aren’t talking. When it fills with salt.
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1735136
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Valentine Dayso excitingit means he really loves herwhat will he bringshe waitshe comes home with a hang dogexpression on his faceher valentine was leftat the gambling table
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173552
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But I still don't have my underwear in the right place.
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173562
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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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17351414
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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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173561
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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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1735136
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The clacking ventilator reminds me of ice cubes rattling in your highball...
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173520
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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173482
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Entering that darkroom is like slipping through the barrel of a rifle.
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17341611
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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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