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I tried to talk, but only / whispers slithered out.
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17601313
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Of course then I did it all over again. Got married, that is. Fortunately, this one worked out.
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17601312
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Myrna came home from her new, midnight shift, waitressing job at the Waffle House saying she was sorry but she couldn't take any more gray-haired Jesus-types with their dollar bills held high, releasing a few so they would flutter, as if borne by wings, onto the tables as…
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176096
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176066
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We touch the places now, feel the hardness of bone...
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176000
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And the ocean was black and green and blue—as your dress that clung to your body’s curve. Round as the bend of the water trailing the false line of the shore.
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17601910
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Falling//
is something that comes quite naturally/
to puffed up things. Like the soufflé
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176087
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He died in the ditch he dug.
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1759147
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Bones consolidate with age. The fleshy/
bits of body follow by wrinkling and/
spreading outward, appearing to expand.
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175966
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Devoid of flesh and muscle,
Composed of bone and air.
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1759115
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I enjoyed the talking part though
rambling on and on for lord knows
why or how
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175900
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She says he is not a real person. He says he doesn't understand. And that she should be with the dudes who want to be her boyfriend.
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175952
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Yesterday morning I sank to the depths of hell and barely crawled out in time. There is no answer except possibly death that will find me relief from his distant presence. I am free but yet I am not and I slowly sink into a hollow world where nothing hurt
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175911
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A rose and two dollars. Where did they come from? I didn't know anyone who had visited my parents' grave recently, yet that evening I saw a white rose on my mother's side and two bucks on my father's. I took the money and placed my own flowers with the rose. It had to have…
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175932
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"Pull around," Rachel says. "Pull around him, dammit."
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1759119
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If you find a nickel-plated Colt .38 lying on top of a worn copy of King Lear, you’ll know who you’re dealing with.
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175921
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“We’re on our way to gold country to find the American Dream.” No point in mentioning the huge prairie dogs, the ones swarming and screeching beneath the horses in their Hell’s Angel gear and Nixon masks.
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175999
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Our Irish tradition is rich in Yeats, drenched in Bushmills.
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175995
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I brimmed with sexual energy and it flowed about me like a buttermilk, silk robe. Rich and thick, musk-laden and fortified with my own particular brand of woman.
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175920
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The more indifferent he had become towards life, the more she had become towards him.
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175920
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Joseph K. ran a publishing house in the shadow of the Castle.
Perhaps “publishing house” is too grand a title. Joseph K. kept a battery of six or seven (depending on repairs) manual typewriters, a crate of carbon paper, and a large stapling machine
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1759158
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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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175985
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When the medicine started to interrupt her sleep, she made elaborate breakfasts – sweet potato pancakes, crepes with homemade cream cheese filling, omelets with spinach and brie, hand-rolled croissants stuffed with bittersweet chocolate. It was in those e
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175997
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You could hear her coming from a long way off
as she kept trying to catch her breath,
like she was getting the fun rattled out of her bones.
But it was laughter, laughter that kept on
filling up her belly from the inside,
and she was having tr
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175860
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The surface temperature of the sun is 9,800 degrees Fahrenheit.
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175863
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175822
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you are the most uptight pansy I have ever met
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175800
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They stride the earth of their own accord, knocking down bridges, buildings— obliterating whole towns with each pendulous swing...
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1758106
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They couldn’t have done it better if they’d waved guns around in the air.
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1758148
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...painted by my mother with meticulous attention...
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