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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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175200
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If you were the ozone,
I’d want to leave you gaping.
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175185
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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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175111
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...the loving and very painful hurt of our daily sustenance
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175198
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I think I remember now why people write poetry.
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175142
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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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San Bruno avenue, six shops in eight blocks. Those Vietnamese ladies thrive on the pedicure trade.
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175153
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My sweet baby angel has baby hair Baby angel has a golden cross lit looking at the crystal pig and kind mare The drowning unicorn comes from the waves in fits. My sweet baby angel has baby talkBaby angel has a diamond shape scarburied heart shaped…
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175185
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Twice burned, it buries its graves.
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175121
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The car has been parked there for slightly more than a day now, and nothing has occurred—there’s nothing “unusual,” nothing “amiss.” Except that it’s there, still, as he follows his boys to school.
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175111
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I concluded that Parisian sexuality must be partially indebted to the cricket or grasshopper. The entrance to their flat was a wood door scarred by scriptures common to places frequented by people who have not yet made their mark on the world.
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175062
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If you've ever cleaned house because a death is coming,you know it's the same as any other kind of cleaning.Wipe the tables.Pick up the floor.Sweep the crumbs under the carpet.For later.And for the ants.It's different, too.Because you're floating.On caffeine.On muffled…
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175032
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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1750136
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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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175033
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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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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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17502015
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Falling Water almost fell./
12 million dollars later//
it will splay itself a little longer
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175011
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I don’t personally know any models—let alone any supermodels—at this point in my life but some years back my father, who was working for the Woolite Corporation, was in charge of hiring models for them.
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1749102
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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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Two cars smashed together, the sky started to look like a foot infected with gout...
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174953
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The Black Thing spread over the room, eating away his mother's face as well as the doctors and nurses who dashed in a frenzy around him until they too were swallowed in the black singing cloud.
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174976
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On Saturdays, we pull out big white poster boards, magic markers, and draw babies.
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174943
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"Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut."
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1749115
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when thoughts of you
waffle in through memories scent
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17491617
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Sharpie marked, Free Still Works
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174980
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The serious writer looks back on a long and distinguished career as an herbologist.
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1749136
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The clacking ventilator reminds me of ice cubes rattling in your highball...
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174910
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I know this is going to sound crazy, possibly because it is crazy, but still, please hear me out. I'm a relatively sane person. Sane as any of you, or I was. Just, what I'm saying is that anything that happened to me could happen to you, and you might do the same things I…
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17491512
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I took Annie to the zoo, and the tigers got out. The little tigers, that is. Cubs. Two of them. The zoo employees scurried about, peeking into nooks and crannies.
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174889
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I thought the Ferris wheel was dumb. All it did was give you a high altitude view of the little Minnesota town where I had grown up.
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