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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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Somewhere in her the name triggers/
a grainy chain of Cheech & Chong
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I know what he meant.
I've been in the 3 A.M. cream cheese.
I've known the hole in the bagel.
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We lay in what we have made, minute fleshy bullets in the target we have made.
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What does she have / that I don’t have / that I can’t buy / for myself?
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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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Lu peeked at his cards again. They were still jacks, and they still looked mighty nice.
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I travel over your body with small feet,
reach your heart.
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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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Hideki likes the uncomfortable face one makes when trying to "break wind" after eating too many dried potatoes.
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Twice burned, it buries its graves.
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They stand together in the doorway looking at the crib.
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An action oriented solution for bovinity
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woke up to the sound of a diesel
looked out the window to see i’m not home
outta bed to see if you had called
not a damn thing on my phone
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He leans in close then, close enough that when he speaks, his words tiptoe out and tuck me in.
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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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The list of things to live for/
shortens with age. The list of regrets/
lengthens.
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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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An undercover agent posed as an Orthodox Jewish woman in a sting operation that led to the arrest of two rabbis for kidnapping men who refused to grant divorces to their wives.
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as i sink down into the
shadows crawling like a worm
past cold bricks
centuries old in my blood
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The sound of drums blared from down the street. Car horns tried to fight the sound. Mayumi and Keiko saw the size of the crowd walking past them increase.
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"Some Purgatory in order, innit?"
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With such demeaning precarity, I can’t read/
anything more than a thousand words
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I was sitting on the steps in the entryway to our apartment building taking off my running shoes when I spotted a paperclip on the floor. I assumed it had fallen from the mail that my wife had just taken from our mailbox. Once my shoes were removed, I went down to pick…
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"I who?" Mrs Caterpillar slithered closer to the door, peeping through the peephole with her stemma. Upon visual inspection, she discovered that it was Mr Earthworm standing outside in the rain.
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Scientists have determined that a tiny freshwater organism known as the "bdelloid rotifer" gave up sex 40 million years ago. And you thought the spark had gone out of your marriage.
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In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. What on Earth does that mean? What the hell? Earth, hell, heaven, they were good concepts. He took a rib out of Adam and began to write with it.
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