1679 6 5
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Can't believe I was able to drive this far
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167920
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He slumped forward, drooling into his lap.
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1678106
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My first girlfriend had blue Christmas lights strung on trees in front of her stone house. My family had all gone to bed. When midnight came, it was snowing.
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1678113
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“Your husband is an asshole, isn’t he?” he asks.
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16781212
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Your mother is a great and dying bird. Once, she tended her grand feathered nest. Once, she preened.
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16781811
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hoping for a happy outcome/
like a kindly voice on the line
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167886
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the swan drives a car ( window down; wing half hanging out ) …
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16781311
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In the cool, damp morning, Jeremiah trembled, from the weight of the gun, from fear he would miss.
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167821
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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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167765
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You may think you've tasted envy, but yours was just a sour sip of wine at a civilized wine-tasting. Mine is bottom-shelf, well-brand gin in a biker bar with miss-the-urinal piss stains on the floor.
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16772010
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Practice has perfected disengagement.
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167753
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“Me try anything,” he says, then laughs a little. “You’re fucked.”
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167731
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At five a family relative took my life away from me and no one cared
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167793
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During what's called "Children's time," one day at church Sarah slides her left foot halfway out of her tiny ballet slipper to show Davie her toenails are painted the same soft pink as the inside of her shoe. "Look," she says. "My…
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16771312
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167723
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① / empty space / not black / not white / not noise / blanck
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1677117
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On his knees
he divinates diverging lines
with belly laughs he levitates
the rebel spheres into geodes .
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167752
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Robert wants so badly after reading a book where a man wakes up as a bug to wake up as a bug. He researches the avenues of metamorphosis where science has been where it is going. He is disappointed that of all things science has turned into other things, none…
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167791
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The television volume softens in the shadows.
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167711
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1677102
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I won’t be eating much anyway if someone doesn’t start reading me. I’ve got to get a hook so people will be drawn to my work. I’ve got a few concepts I’d like to share with you. See what you think.
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167676
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Clear as my conscience may be, you still haunt me as the brown settles to black
sit there and recommence as if nothing had ever happened, your hands conducting the orchestra of your purity.
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16761312
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Grey would rather be in the trees or down by the river. When a wind comes up, he grabs the wooly blanket from the hook in the barn and calls Phoebe. They stretch the blanket out between them and sail into the grassy meadow that slopes down the hill from t
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167630
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“Listen, Mother – you’re my ticket out of this burg and I’m not about to cash it in!”
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167666
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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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167600
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oh, sure i’m still running around like a heads-up/off/prophet/profit/fit trying to cut off my very own de/(con)instruction and all other sordid a•void•able & available/a-Babel towers of post &toastmodern doom/daze
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167600
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"Did I have a dream, or did the dream have me?" - Rush, "Nocturne"
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167660
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Passing us in a delicate swirl of light perfume and healthy girl sweat, three bare midriff elfin, baby dykes with pencil thin eyebrows, and chic art hair cuts, swaggered in like cool young gunfighters straight off the cover of Bad Baby Butch Vogue
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16762311
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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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167673
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