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The ghosts run before/
attacking horsemen. A heart/
is ruptured by a spear.
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159576
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Brody was standing against the wall with one hand in his hip pocket, as if he was holding a gun. The motel was set in the undergrowth of several weedy small towns, but a flashing neon sign made it impossible to miss from the road. We used it as a safe hou
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1595168
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Her clothing style varies from grunge to glamor and . . . she always looks good.
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15952013
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1595138
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Every morning if I don't have to go potty....
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159582
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Once, when he had been married for a year, she sent him a card which said, "If you have seen a cat smoke a pipe, you have got it made." There was an illustration of a big, black panther, standing up on its hind legs, smoking what looked like a big tub of
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159500
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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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159544
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He looks at me again, this time glancing down at my skinny jeans, “And... are you a single mom?” he seems to think he has it right, taking a last look at my aquamarine colored pants and the tapered area around my calves.
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159587
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But what if it grew into a nasty tea party-ish bimbo right winger -- a little Michelle Bachmann nubbin?
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159552
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He is sitting in his bedroom trying to decide what to wear. He has an appointment at five. If he wants to make it he has to either catch the bus, which comes in about fifteen minutes, or drive in. If he wants to drive in he needs to put petrol in his car,
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15952311
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The missions never change:/
To plant a bed of fast-blooming/
Flowers of annihilation/
Across an unspecific plain.
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15951411
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I visited the grave of Rimbaud. / It was pale blue
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159476
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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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159484
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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.
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159400
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Dr. van Roos reminded the group that trauma is trauma...
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15941513
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San Bruno avenue, six shops in eight blocks. Those Vietnamese ladies thrive on the pedicure trade.
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159400
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Back in the Dark Ages, the Mongols invented the first hamburger pattie. They put slabs of beef under their horses' saddles and after a few miles of rough riding -- voila! a flattened piece of cow meat. They then proceeded t
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159421
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“What would you get? What should you give a lady who’s one hundred for her birthday?”
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159453
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They try to incorporate a little of Ravel around their edges, the ones where their molecules bump off into other parallel realities, into other non-localities, into other potentials. She isn't buying it. She's tuned in. And she can tell.
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159421
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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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159465
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She used her right breast. Lifted it to her chin, aimed at the can, and shoved it down as hard as she could.
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159476
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Uh oh, the dry cleaning ticket
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159432
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my fingers vibrate magnetic/
a humming void/
where my brain was
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159321
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Librarians love me,
you want to know why?
I don’t dog-ear pages,
I don’t even try.
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159352
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Yesterday morning I sank to the depths of hell and barely crawled out in time. There is no answer except possibly death that will find me relief from his distant presence. I am free but yet I am not and I slowly sink into a hollow world where nothing hurt
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159341
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Hers or mine?
You figure it out, jackass.
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159365
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Those who love aluminum bellies and landing gear and ailerons... that ilk... settled at the western edge of of LAX 24R 6L and called the encampment Flight Path.
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15931811
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It could be fun,/
with the guns, explosives, Molotov/
Cocktails and all,
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159310
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wash over me i fear not the erosion let the future scientists take their soul samples to figure out what happened how was there warning and when you go away let me believe the residue left behind is a choice a souvenir of the moment i want you full…
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159321
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Judith was a bed wetter. Judith was a first-year college student and she was embarrassed that she wet the bed.
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