1616 7 7
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...I had a string of Sunday School medals that knighted me a warrior for Jesus Christ of Nazareth...
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161533
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Satan is a wide-eyed Pollyanna mime who communicates with a ventriloquist dummy that corrects my grammar, speaks in internet acronyms, tells me that I’d be a lot prettier if I just smiled more and lost fifteen pounds, and nags me about how all my problems
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161576
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They broke both of Jimmy's shins. / Gambling debt just like in the movies
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161566
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Devoid of flesh and muscle,
Composed of bone and air.
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1615156
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Now his daughter was an American citizen and Max wanted only the chance to board the SS Maua and disembark in New York.
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1615121
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He extended his bent arm to its full length with a crack, straightened his hunched body and tried, and failed, to close his lips over his frightening grimace. Stone lips are not pliable.
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161577
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can they approve, our/gods in our wallets? only/when we tell them to.
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161576
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I ain’t your kissing cousin
That’s pretty plain to see
Baby, keep your pretty lips
Far away from me
I ain’t your kissing cousin
That’s pretty plain to see
You’re really very pretty
Come kiss me and we’ll see
We don’t live in a barnyard
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161500
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They had a vague idea of how lips were to be used. Lips that parted feverishly, lips that burned. Lips - old, but still amateur. It was no wonder, considering that 'boys from good families' would never dream of even looking at a woman, let alone kiss her!
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161533
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eleven o'clock spills
despair all over
our bedspread
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161551
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...was discovered today hanging from a shower outlet in his bathroom...
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16152012
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I say her- it might be him-/
but from a distance I supply the details I prefer.
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161541
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In closing, Your Honor:After the interview Bad Blake, a/k/a "Otis" takes "Miss" Jane Craddock back to his hotel, ties her up, and gives her a Cleveland Steamer. For reference, please refer to my Brief, Exhibit A, showing a thespian named Ronald Jeremy…
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1615156
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Call it a spell or a prayer or a ritual; it worked.
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161473
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-for Franz, the least understood comedian of all We all knew that Marissa's college boyfriend was ugly — there was the way she answered our mother's pestering "Is he cute?" with a stalling "Um, well..." and then there was the fact that she hadn't posted any photos…
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16141313
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Let's walk through this park. We can talk until dark. You have the look of a wolf. I'm not stupid, Jack. I'm a lamb, you'll see, once you get to know me. That tat is fierce and your leathers tight black. My ink is old and black suits me, I'm told. …
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161432
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She never saw me pull the wings off live flies or throw wood lice in the fire just to see them shrivel, drown a beetle in a stream of warm pee.
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161475
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...a headwater stream that has never had a name....
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161421
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I am far from home, wherever that is.
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161412
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If it weren't for the different lengths of dock, I would think the river just goes past me. Maybe it does, and the banks move too. Orderly where the clouds are random. I have cormorants, passengers, and salmon. They catch each other. They make my crew money. When did my…
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16141912
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I was to limp with stunned, growing horror, as I navigated through the swirling smoke and maze of human corpses...
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161421
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She pictured the President leaving the hospital a few days later, hobbling on a cane. Jackie beside him, Caroline and John-John dashing from a waiting limousine. He couldn’t die. She’d looked into his eyes. John F. Kennedy spoke to her.
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161398
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... black holes suck in matter and supernovas explode.
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161355
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You will never know how much it hurts
When someone else touches your face.
But I also know how much you count on others
To pull the slivers out of your heart.
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161322
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an awkward stage between
glued popsicle stick marsupial,
and mechanical tin foil mammal.
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16131410
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The smart drivers know the signs/
and the back street ways around the wreck.
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161311
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Then a flicker caught my eye. To the left of the balcony, where the residential high-rise abutted a commercial building to its right, a shape--half-dark, half-lit--stood on a limestone ledge.
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161376
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there is a vault in the mountains / that in itself contains infinite vaults
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161377
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fuck you Charles Bukowski
go cry in your eggs in a Jersey diner
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161366
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This tall, very blonde, very female, friend of mine. . . .
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