1664 6 6
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At night, I wake up, and Daddy's in the bathroom with a hanger in his mouth....
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1664106
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Rarely is Quay Street so clean,
Monday in rain,
Neactain’s ticking over with
Slow jazz and crosswords,
Stout and steaming anoraks.
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166376
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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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166332
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I have committed to nothing. Therefore I have committed to something. The first sentence is now moot, and this story will eat itself.
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166365
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I'm sitting on the B-line toward Park, and there is a woman with the same black bob as Mad TV's Miss Swan, and she is leaning the whole front of her body against the whole pole in front of me, and even though there is plenty of space around her, she is pressed up…
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166353
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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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16631413
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My art teacher hated Salvador Dali.
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166332
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You are walking through a canyon made of shelving units lined with colorful masterpieces of three-dimensional minimalist design
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166387
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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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1663117
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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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166345
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. . . a visitor from the preceding century would have been aghast to the point of vomiting to behold the regard with which pandas were now held almost universally.
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166321
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Two days before Christmas 1946, my mother put me on an Illinois Central railroad train at the whistle stop of Neoga, Illinois.
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166375
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When you encounter a body laying on the road, drive over it.
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166375
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A performance is a series of situations. Each situation defines the characters that are in it.
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166373
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166300
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woke up to the sound of a diesel
looked out the window to see i’m not home
outta bed to see if you had called
not a damn thing on my phone
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166387
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He died in the ditch he dug.
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166322
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Our Core Values define evil as the concealment of information. And those who conceal information are evil.
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166210
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Kenya Williams, eight years old, was out of bed before anyone else in her family, even Grandpa. It was Easter Sunday. She had a mission of mercy to carry out. She dressed quietly and tiptoed past her mama’s bedroom. She dared not wake her new daddy, who w
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1662116
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The time has come
to scrape the wax from my menorah.
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166211
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Will wondered if Doobie was afraid that it might be nothing but the abyss waiting on the other side, but he promised Doobie he’d let him pass on if it was finally his time.
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166241
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Each drip off the corrugated plastic sheeting made a tinny sound that he could hear from deep within the damp sleeping bag and layers of blankets where he was trying to sleep.
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166264
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...the knives she laid out on the porch before her husband left her, washed and dried, set neatly by copper pennies.
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166200
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Her hair’s the color of LA at night
On such occasions when the Santa Anas
Have left the hills bone-dry and burning bright
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1662148
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She parks the car and trudges insidefor her daily visithoping that the new rouge hidesthe old tears.Five years now she has been comingto see himHe looks nothing like the pictures toanyone but her.They say she should go homeand rest, relaxShe doesn't know how…
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16622311
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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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166296
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One frozen hand protruded from the snow.
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166243
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He puts on a choir of prepositions, 142 adjectives, 317 ramifications of cotton... and 177 semicolons engorged with cabbage.
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166221
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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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166265
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Can't believe I was able to drive this far
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