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The house had to be clean - I mean thorough-clean - when he got home from the pit for his tea, or he’d throw his plate at the wall and the gravy would run down onto the carpet. There was always gravy.
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169845
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On Soapography, two actresses are discussing
everyone’s personal heaven, and in another room
you can hear a woman who is your dead mother
combing her hair in a doctor’s smock in a dream,
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169850
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Flash’s hackles stood brushlike but he kept his head bowed just enough beneath the bigger dog’s stare to delay the inevitable fight. Flash, Mal thought approvingly, would pick the time and place.
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169832
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Not a fuss, not a stink,
The eulogy, deep, will make one think,
Grandmother, sat in back, will wink
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169897
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169823
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① / empty space / not black / not white / not noise / blanck
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169800
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...Loves and fights and retires; / And dies.
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169866
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He pours another shot and says: Then I buried it in the yard. The time capsule I mean. You have to plug it in to see. I wonder if they’ll know.
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169800
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"Sorry, I need to confirm the results." Sal turned to Paul. "Is it true that you got stood up?"
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1698155
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I thought, what are we talking about? Botox?
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169875
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When you encounter a body laying on the road, drive over it.
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169873
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169887
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He died in the ditch he dug.
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169800
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Do not listen to Christmas music out of season. Unless of course you want to ruin Christmas music. Forever.
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169800
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I have two of those hand exercisers jamming the
tray and keeping it locked in place
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169731
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Her dress swirled around her as she stepped into the ballroom, looking every bit as sultry as her recent Playboy cover...
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169765
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Nor woke, as always, to a dark room smelling of the lavender she kept in little bottles to perfume the otherwise stank air. Outside, she could still see the edge of the moon hanging there like a lopsided smile. The early summer wind blew in and stirred the faded floral…
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169756
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in our teens as tough as the cold/we wore denim and flannel with our boots/kicking at whichever wind blew . . .
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1697148
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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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169744
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Kick your employer in the ass. Emotions are strange experiments in honesty.
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1697149
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I crave the confines of the convent
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16971511
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In the Ardennes for the the first time...
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16971616
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She’s witnessed her mother’s terror on the day of the hurricane, and she demanded for the first time in her life that her mother do something her mother did not want to do.
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1696199
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I know this: the sky is vast here//
and the sun unforgiving/
to any architecture not the best
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169687
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Co-workers have started calling him Jesus, Manson, Foghat, Doobie Brother, hippie, hipster, Grizzly Adams, Dude Lebowski... there’s really no end to it.
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169632
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One night he woke up with Underdog laying next to him, breathing softly. He marveled at how fiction could make reality so much better.
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16961310
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Uncounted hens and piglets/
die at my demand. The killing floor//
runs red for me. I am/
monstrous to creatures small and great,
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169645
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The summer when I was six and my sister Audrey was eight, she'd walk around our house pretending to be in a trance, fingers strategically hovering over my mother's vases and lamps, leaving smudges behind on my father's heavy oak desk and rocking chair. She'd lumber past my…
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1696126
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I looked around in my pantry but there were no sentences I felt like cooking.
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169695
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I follow what pulls me forward.
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