1219 9 4
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This guy struts and never walks, and while doing so he reads and sends text messages and emails from his smart phone and so never walks in a straight line.
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121943
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Until the ivy hides me in
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121954
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We were wild, medieval magpies,
sweaty and sweet and selfish; and so much more
than we were before I lit that first stick of spice,
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121966
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It was always your body that told so much --
lips working some secret out
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121800
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I have never seen doubt on the face of a Roman general,' he said, ‘but when you looked at me and said “I know”…that was a certainty I'd never encontered. You have crossed the Acheron twice.'
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1218139
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with cool confidence
and believable body language
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12181614
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Dinner conversation reminds me of the chatter of birds. Happy talk. Nothing real.
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12182010
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I invited Van Gogh over for some drinks and a chat. I'm talking about Vincent.
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121812
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Moon Boy sits atop the hill's crest and watches Moon Girl.
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121899
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At this stage of the game you don't even matter enough to have an asshole.
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121844
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I assume the shape of a pronoun.
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121862
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I pasted a sample paragraph of my writing on the website 'Who do you write like?'.
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121854
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Many hours to make a brick: many bricks to make a curve.
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1218113
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Ego bereft of consistency Betrays a heart hungering to toll. Unable to trust its will Or harbor imaginary gods, It gains a hold melding into a role whose proven viability Can give convincing cover To buy time to fabricate An identity that feels unique, Yet…
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121821
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He finished the omelet and started in on the short stack. He drowned the cakes in syrup.
-Never can have enough syrup.
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121885
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The army was bulldozing grandmother's house.
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121872
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I must have been six years old at that time, but the events of…
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121843
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Out where they grow the miles
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121877
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My skin tells a story of pain and labor. It’s better than a tattoo and cheaper.
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121700
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It might not seem easy to breathe any love into a name like Father. It’s a stiff word—it’s not soft, like, say, Papa—but sometimes you have to breathe love into names you don’t choose.
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121710
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Was it hope or despair that drove her to walk out the door of the place she had called home for the past twenty years? Did she feel sorrow or relief to leave behind a husband and five children?
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121700
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Under the darkness of their new city. The heave and moan of structures as they breathed and pulsed. Under the darkness of this city, under the hum of their florescent bulbs and the tumbling rattle of motorcars, the wheeze of their machines and the clank o
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121742
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It's 6:45 a.m. A gritty, mundane sort of magic pervades the air at "Valentine’s" in the Hamilton Hotel.
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121744
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Gas station mart generic whiskey that smells sketchier than bathtub moonshine. Don’t worry about liver damage or going blind because you won’t be drinking it. You’ll need every drop to disinfect cuts and wounds since you and thousands of others in your co
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121700
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“They’re not gonna shoot him?” Rick cried.
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121776
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She tells me I have to face the fact that I have the heart of the Tin Man. I know the story. He had none. She is very sensitive and I have to measure my remarks because words bruise her so easily. So, I…
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121752
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And the voodoo pins pinged as, folding and imploding, she was reduced to a petro-chemical puddle.
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12171412
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She was sick and tired of marriage. She didn't want to be a mother, but now she was.
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12172011
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Reality for us must be broken so we can fix the one small insect of it we can capture and pin, wriggling.
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121785
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"There is something in the air. It makes people sick, makes them want to die. They
cannot inhale too deeply for fear that it will turn them mad."
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