1750 9 6
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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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175096
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I have always admired flat-chested women.
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17502011
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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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175065
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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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175032
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You are walking through a canyon made of shelving units lined with colorful masterpieces of three-dimensional minimalist design
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175000
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Not long ago, Owen the Second showed her a skull. He kept it in a brown cardboard box in the top of the closet. "My first wife," he said, and sneered, his lip bunching up around a scar just under his nose.
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1750102
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She was about 35 or so and noticeably pregnant. She was near hysteria when she knocked on our apartment door, right across the street in L.A. from a convent. But she took one last desperate wild look at me, standing at the door. I saw the animal in her ey
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175085
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Twice burned, it buries its graves.
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175032
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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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175098
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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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174946
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Two cars smashed together, the sky started to look like a foot infected with gout...
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174952
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We lay in what we have made, minute fleshy bullets in the target we have made.
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174933
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Everyone was shocked when they heard Tinkerbelle was six days gone and had got so heavy she couldn't fly. Who could have done it, everyone asked, but Tinkerbelle wasn't telling. So no one knew. That isn't true. I knew, and in this Declaration I swear I will tell…
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174911
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Only ever been twelve men on the moon. And one cheese.
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174942
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There were three other guys on the bus. The landlord (or buslord) let us use the kitchen and bathroom in the house he shared with his wife. I rode into San José City College with the other guys, who were also taking classes there. I remember frigid autum
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17491811
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It could be fun,/
with the guns, explosives, Molotov/
Cocktails and all,
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174971
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I’m in high leather boots; I’m talking many dead cows here and I respect that
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17491414
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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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174832
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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1748179
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watch/
the second hand sweep
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174811
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...the loving and very painful hurt of our daily sustenance
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1748136
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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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1748169
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If love could only by heat be bound
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174843
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He’d tossed and turned all night, pondering what to do, afraid she was living alone. He’d decided to email her two words: “Love you” and signed it “Scary Sal,” as she’d always seemed so afraid of him.
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17481516
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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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174820
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As it turns out, hypertravel is surprisingly slimming.
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174897
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They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
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1748105
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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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174820
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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174785
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I'll never be a Republican Megadonor or a Doomed Aviatrix. But I'm okay with that.
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