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IT's like, 15 words. Do you really need a snippet?
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159252
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We lay in what we have made, minute fleshy bullets in the target we have made.
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159265
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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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159283
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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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1592117
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She smacked his back a couple of times with the flat of her hand
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159221
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A sturdy and goatish original by know-nothing punks from the sticks. Who cares if we were puny and smelled like fresh milk? For a few years we played and rocked, even turned the Appalachian soundscape a little brown at the edges. At least at first. Mainly
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Neglected long enough, uncalled for/
by the shrinking language of the day,//
my words abandon me.
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159283
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At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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159274
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My boyfriend unequivocally believed in the existence of aliens. He was the Mulder to my Scully, though when I said so, he had no idea what I was talking about. I never understood how someone so E.T. obsessed could have missed 'The X-Files'.He would look skyward, eyes…
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159243
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Somewhere in her the name triggers/
a grainy chain of Cheech & Chong
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159200
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We dig up conscience-tunnels, pluck the play-flower of present choice for fun, run aground, past this dimly lit, though not to be underestimated, stage, and open door upon empty door, to nothing, for the lights are a pulse flickering in the perceptual per
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With such demeaning precarity, I can’t read/
anything more than a thousand words
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The suite of dark rooms/
extends forever./
It’s no big deal.
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159112
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[SOME PEOPLE ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS.]
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15911710
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The list of things to live for/
shortens with age. The list of regrets/
lengthens.
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159111
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Will wondered if Doobie was afraid that it might be nothing but the abyss waiting on the other side, but he promised Doobie he’d let him pass on if it was finally his time.
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Mostly, though, reiteration of the old/
in an idiosyncrasy that strives/
to become fresh and fails
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He didn't hide it. He told her he was a mortician when he called. He had responded to her ad in the Lonely Hearts section of the newspaper.
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159198
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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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159164
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What in the name of God’s green earth does this say? “Chifferobe if you can of Aztec in coffee can”?
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We crept to the edge of the cliff and stared down at Lake Travis. In this alcove, out of the churn of the speedboats and pleasure craft, the water shimmered, impossibly blue.
“Didn’t you used to jump off here back when you were getting high?” Ryan said
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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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159153
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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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159100
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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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15902114
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Walking to class, Paula routinely fishes around in her purse to be sure the condom she thinks of as a close friend, even naming it Rhonda, is in there to help her avoid a pregnancy yet, even so, Paula admits that sometimes she daydreams in that boring economics class,…
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159021
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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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You're a good dog, she whispered to him, a good brave dog. Her face was tight with soap.
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1590106
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"He turns in his bed, and reaches for a body,
like the blind to braille."
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For the briefest moment, she was part of the sky. She hung there. Frozen. Suspended. Arms outstretched. She thought maybe she could take off flying, if she strained against gravity hard enough. She would soar into the pale blue until she reached the clouds. They …
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I threw my hand / at the gearshift/
the car glided off.
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