1766 8 9
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Throw them up there but try to make it look tidy. Try to become a little bit paranoid, just enough that you slightly overestimate how much they think of you at all.
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17662015
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Falling Water almost fell./
12 million dollars later//
it will splay itself a little longer
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176621
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I knew nothing about the letter at first. When I came in that morning and smiled and said good morning, it was a genuine smile and a heartfelt good morning. But the letter, which had arrived the previous afternoon, was already doing its corrosive work of
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1766107
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I reached for that hair and the air zagged white...
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176620
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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176675
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Long, elegant, with a touch of arch,
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176642
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I imagined the crystals in my mouth.
Salt flowers blooming on my tongue.
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176610
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You're stupid drunk. And not feeling so good. You know you should stop doing this. But what else is there to do, especially since your brother went in? And now Roberto's gone to pick up his lady and left you alone, empty. Couldn't even drive you home. You don't…
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176653
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"...you are a freak of nature..."
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176555
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Is it you with that fucking gold and platinum yacht?!?
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176500
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[CAUTION: THIS CAN CONTAINS THE CAFFEINE EQUIVALENT OF THREE CUPS OF COFFEE. PEOPLE WHO ARE ELDERLY, PREGNANT, OR SENSITIVE TO CAFFEINE SHOULD NOT CONSUME THIS BEVERAGE!]
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176582
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Entering that darkroom is like slipping through the barrel of a rifle.
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17652011
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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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176552
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But I still don't have my underwear in the right place.
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176566
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What she didn't tell me was that her brother Carl got fried during an electrical storm.
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176500
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Back when they were younger, David was always gushing about every little thing in his head, and his openness appealed to her as much as his muscular frame did. But after that year they spent apart, he was always ... smiling. Smiling and vague.
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176598
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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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17651715
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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?
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176567
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Just take the mountain curves
as tightly to the inside and
as fast as surface conditions permit
and the road’s edge
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176597
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They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
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176500
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If you were the ozone,
I’d want to leave you gaping.
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17651211
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17641813
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Taken by agents of the United States of America, Felix Six-Killer grows up at the Carlisle Indian School near Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. His hair is cut and oiled. His shirts are starched and creased. For months he is startled to find himself seated for…
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176421
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Sweet Tooth needed a little snack, so he ambled on down the hall to the kitchen. He figured to make one of his patented peanut butter, potato chip, tangerine, raisin, and banana sandwiches because those things just always hit the spot. Unfortunately, when he tugged the…
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176432
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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176410
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[He] practiced aromatherapy and licentiousness, in no particular order.
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176488
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I scratch a red welt onto the inside of my white knee. The knee itches like crazy. Pain too, down to my bones. The Congo calls.
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176421
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Back in the sixties, I chanced upon a list of books. That’s right. Sifting a black garbage bin, I found the long lost canon. Seizing the moment, I snatched the list, and cradled it in my palms. I felt proud and patriotic for saving such a noble list f
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1764184
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Why is the sky grey he asked meI don't know, I saysudden flashes of light snowbloat the cloudssea gulls are squawkingexpect them to peck at my headI have nothing to feed them
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17641617
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Sharpie marked, Free Still Works
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