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I sat there, observing the city people. Frowns upon all our faces. The rain moistened my heart and journal. A blind family; a trio. They used their wands to lead the way.Their faces read joy but, most importantly, satisfaction.My envy filled the damp page.
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167452
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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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16741812
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However did we make it this far/
without murdering one another
as the other sleeps
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16741512
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Effie reckons the river her sister keeps asking about, the Great Pee Dee, was named after some Indians.
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167432
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"Pull around," Rachel says. "Pull around him, dammit."
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167486
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...this dim and empty room, and behind a wall of glass a flag materialized, backlit and fluttering, and I am not saying what country's flag it was, just that it was a flag, that awesome symbol of the nation state and fervid jingoism...
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167441
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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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167432
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Does life have an expiration date Alice asked herself? One must be careful when trying to deal with a broken person; you might cut yourself on their shattered pieces. Life can be like an arrow penetrating your heart. Hard and painful to pull it out, yet i
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167465
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Resting bitch face strikes again.
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1674105
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"Some Purgatory in order, innit?"
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167400
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Sometimes he could feel so small he believed he could fit through the eye of a needle.
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16741311
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I tried to talk, but only / whispers slithered out.
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1674128
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...ghosts still resentful, ghosts far from home...
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1674168
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Unapproachable... for all that.
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167455
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The first time Momma shows me a demon is during revival week at church.
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167321
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Like puddles when it rains,
like relationships in chains.
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167300
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“We’re starting to get into weather control,” Mark said.
“Can you really do that?” Rachel asked, trying to sound supportive and not skeptical.
“There are people out on the west coast in Seattle, who’ve been experimenting with it,” Mark said.
“Bec
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167350
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the moon is the pupil of the cave’s eye
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167373
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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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167366
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Man, I'm not feeling so happy anymore. I tried to tackle my money but it slipped past me and ran out the door. I don't have a clue what to do. I'm hungry and I can't be worrying about you while both of us are trying to snag the same pair of…
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167321
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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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167312
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From a window, the young Pole Krzysztof Penderecki saw resistance fighters hanged by Nazis...
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167321
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He leans against the truck, the sun sinking on the day, shadows inching down the side of the house, yawning towards the horizon.
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167300
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We all ran out of the house into the communal garden without fences. There stood Von Rotten with a smoking rifle in his hands, and our mascot Digger lying on his side, limp. We all looked at each other in disbelief.
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167275
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Biscuits and gravy. I'm off today, I'm lazy.
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167200
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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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167210
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The young cop says, “Sorry ma’am, you’ll have to wait.” In the strobing red-blue glare he looks like a teenager. Melissa wonders if Tony had looked so young when he started, all those years ago.
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167276
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there is a vault in the mountains / that in itself contains infinite vaults
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167201
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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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