1604 1 0
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Alicia got to third block early and scribbled down some of the derivatives homework. Others trickled in intermittently, drifting to their seats like impurities getting caught in a filter.
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1604 0 0
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And the ocean was black and green and blue—as your dress that clung to your body’s curve. Round as the bend of the water trailing the false line of the shore.
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1604 16 13
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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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1603 12 12
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1603 0 0
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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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1603 10 3
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Kitchen.
sandwich.
wife.
daughter.
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1603 0 0
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"Did I have a dream, or did the dream have me?" - Rush, "Nocturne"
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1603 12 9
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now the days are empty
and time has lost its head
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Only scotch and cheap champagne/
retain their reliable flavors.
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1603 6 6
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At night, I wake up, and Daddy's in the bathroom with a hanger in his mouth....
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1603 2 0
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A large crowd of students began to gather around the base of the building that housed the administrative offices, where my hearing was being held. The meeting room was up on the second floor.
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1602 20 11
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The suite of dark rooms/
extends forever./
It’s no big deal.
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1602 3 2
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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1602 3 1
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At five a family relative took my life away from me and no one cared
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1602 12 6
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All creatures know death at their very core, a tacit default--
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1602 8 5
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When the malady struck and the world fell dark at noon, she and I groped the walls and found our front door. Outside, bewildered, we heard the whine of jets in free-fall, explosions in the imagined distance. And we heard a car — or was it a truck that veered…
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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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The moon is now at the corner on pace for the horizon. On top of a tall business building in Downtown Newark stop a woman in a hood cloak.
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1602 1 1
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Her mother sighed, fingering the faux-pearls around her neck. Barbara's neck tensed, almost as though the hair on the back of it would stand up: Here comes a platitude . . .
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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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1602 1 2
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“Why do you write filth?” they howl
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1602 4 1
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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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1602 10 7
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Most everything is white because white means clean and hospitals are supposed to be clean. They wouldn’t let me leave.
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1602 1 1
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1602 0 0
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1601 3 4
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IT's like, 15 words. Do you really need a snippet?
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1601 5 2
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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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1601 3 1
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It was a phone call we never expected. You were so full of life and joy and the sound of your laugh was pierced in our minds. Two strokes. That's what they said. No explanation, no back story. We worried we would lose you. Immediately, all of our memories with you started…
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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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