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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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173700
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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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17361311
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It’s been a series of bad clams
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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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17362013
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1736105
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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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173552
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We lay in what we have made, minute fleshy bullets in the target we have made.
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1735138
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Every morning if I don't have to go potty....
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173521
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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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173510
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My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ...
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173596
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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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173520
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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173496
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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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173432
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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1734105
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Brazilian girls yammer
with their book bags
up against my leg.
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1734136
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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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173452
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But I still don't have my underwear in the right place.
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173476
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On Saturdays, we pull out big white poster boards, magic markers, and draw babies.
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1734147
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17341211
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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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173462
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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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17341414
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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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173461
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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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173497
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They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
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1734107
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I reached for that hair and the air zagged white...
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1734136
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The clacking ventilator reminds me of ice cubes rattling in your highball...
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173498
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All were part of the household of Court Astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
who lost his nose in a duel as a student
and went through life thereafter wearing a gold prosthetic one instead
and who met and fell in love with a commoner who bore him eigh
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