1713 8 3
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At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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17131811
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It could be fun,/
with the guns, explosives, Molotov/
Cocktails and all,
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171344
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Sitting near her desk, like a dunce cap,
red
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171320
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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1712102
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I had no portent this would occur, /
Ne'er did I see this happening, /
Not days before, nor those coming;
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171265
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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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17122013
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171232
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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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171220
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It takes almost an hour before I drift to sleep on the bus. When I wake up in Crescent City, I’m surprised. Maybe I was going somewhere else in my sleep. Walking out of the station, it feels like a strange place. Somewhere I’ve never been before. The
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171221
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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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171265
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171243
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After dinner, I looked forward to taking a shower and cleansing myself of the day’s mishap. Cher had other plans.As I left the bathroom, Cher nipped me in the butt, taking my towel, skin, and blood with her. I remember writhing on the floor outside my sis
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171200
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If you were the ozone,
I’d want to leave you gaping.
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171223
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Mr Robertson chuckled gently as he caught the aroma of freshly cooked cinnamon doughnuts and watched the oil leave its fingerprints.
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1712126
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The ghosts run before/
attacking horsemen. A heart/
is ruptured by a spear.
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171221
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My music teacher, Luigi Biagi, told me that he was done with me. He said it was time I moved on to more specialized teachers. Since my passion was composing and arranging, he recommended Al Fine.
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171199
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Requires one of those leaps.
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171101
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A blonde girl, her youth evident beneath a cosmetic mask of bruised eye shadow and plum lipstick, claims the seat beside me on a train. A radiant six month-old gazes out from her hip, awe-struck at life, as my own son must have been at that age. I never e
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171165
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There’s a hole in my sock, just large enough that my big toe keeps slipping out.
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17111510
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Weddings, engagements etc.
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1711138
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Every morning if I don't have to go potty....
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171195
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The border crossing at El Paso will soon be arriving. I'm apprehensive about Mexico, all the violence.
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171180
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The serious writer looks back on a long and distinguished career as an herbologist.
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17111210
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published in The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review.
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171197
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They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
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171100
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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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171076
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Scavenge at that address only if you feel possessed of great courage, a profound faith in resurrection or reincarnation, or an impatient desire for a premature date with certain death.
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171043
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You lose her. In the vortex of guttered water, her tangled hair entwines. Tornado-like. Her body spinning boisterously at its core. Her name: Izra—the wooden doll with black pebbled eyes. …
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171099
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He remembered waking up on those lazy summer days hearing the sad song of mourning doves.
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171085
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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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