1650 4 2
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I met a girl so sweet, So sweet that she could Break your heart No girl, no one should Be so sweet So sweet that she melts My depression Increase my anxiety No one should be so sweet More like a little girl Than her 25 years If…
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1650 14 8
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In the gutter, the paper signs turned back to pulp.
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1650 0 0
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There are three ways I can love you, not even half of one more.
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1650 6 3
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1650 8 5
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The strange bones of language
wander the room.
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1650 13 10
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There was something about his eyes that seemed more sly than happy. He looked like a teamster winking at a mayor who’d just paid him off to keep trucks rolling through Scranton.
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1650 2 1
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Linus had it right with the security blanket he held like a beloved pet swan. Geneva had it all wrong with a pastel-colored music box, painted with impressionist-styled daisies and tied up in gold-ribbed pink bow. But it had come from her grandmother. Her
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1650 13 8
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All the years since, until this morning, I'd thought the actor was James Gregory.
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1650 9 9
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Some life in Rosco's walls. He listened with his dead wife Sonya's stethoscope: rustles and scratching, a collective heartbeat.“Vermin”, said Vlad, Rosco's neighbor. “Will take over if no kill.” He smiled with one tooth, urped some vodka. “I…
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1650 1 0
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Now, I am getting angry! Now you want me depressed too!
GET OUT! GET OUT!
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1650 5 5
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The first time Momma shows me a demon is during revival week at church.
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1650 6 4
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It was a lover’s dark. They had been talking for hours when daylight lost interest and had gone elsewhere for sport.
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1650 2 0
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Though some days... I feel as though I'm nothing more than the ultimate hedged-bet should the offender be living out his last days on earth, holding my arm as we both feel our way through the long dark corridors of tragedy.
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1649 2 1
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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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1649 12 7
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Identification both ways was BooBoo, case sensitive.
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1649 7 3
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Where I went to college, you couldn’t swing a dead cat in a physics lab without hitting a Nobel laureate. I know–we tried. They finally made us stop–it wasn’t fair to the cat.
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1649 0 0
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I took up smoking just to show the world how easy it was to quit. It’s been five months now, and my wife is wondering why I haven’t yet.
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1649 0 1
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Be it a moment of zen, an epiphany, a vision, or even an ill-tempered chinese food inflicted dream, I've seen what's been shrouded carefully behind you… ahead of me.
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1649 7 3
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The surroundings, he thought, are just as important as what's surrounded.
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1649 15 8
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Your girlfriend with the Dresden blue eyes with the sleek belly & gorgeous scars from ripping off Avenue A dealers has you on a leash of short-term amnesia. You can't recall the last time you got off from being trigger-happy inside her & you formed a…
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1649 0 0
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Warren Jeffries left this girlfriend of his named Karen, who was also a poet, and overnight she announced she’d gone back to being a lesbian, she’d so had it with MEN! She did a reading of her new series of Sappho poems at Cody’s Bookstore,
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1649 3 2
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We fold it end over end, meeting in the middle where she takes it, and I let go...
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1649 0 0
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The words(worlds) have become abstracted through contempt?
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1648 0 0
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For the past 6 months our love for each other had been akin to a chess game. We avoided each other’s traps, fortified our defenses, set up gambits of our own, exchanged pieces of our lives, and now it was endgame. Checkmate. Time to move on.
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1648 4 2
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Take shelter from the rain inside the Museum of Sex.
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1648 6 6
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This is not her death. This is absent-minded omniscience. This is impossible. And then again, the inside-out, implosion. And the hall was clogged with bodies; none of them hers, but who could be sure?
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1648 2 1
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Once a month I fuck the boss. It’s not part of my job description. We have a meeting in her office, after thirty minutes she opens the door to what appears to be a storeroom but is actually a well-appointed fuck chamber ...
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1648 0 0
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I wear my gun so it shows,
so everyone knows.
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1648 0 0
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There won't be dancing, anymore. That isn't true, that can't be true; but there is no floor to dance on, you know?
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1648 4 1
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Sunday afternoon was the best. The kids drew straws for a chance to sit on the stool in the Kitchen with the broken armrest. I think mom thought it was an antique but it was just a piece of shit her dad picked up second hand.
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