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I don't care much for Joking, which is not to say that I don't care at all for Joking, just that I don't care much. I would say, if I had to say, that I care for Joking about as much as I care for a cousin, not a close cousin, one I have a genuine frien
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In sleep their bodies drift between the sheets until they find each other.
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Funny, funny stuff. She'll be here all week--be sure and tip your speech therapist!
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My famous ‘Black Feminist Casserole’ was soon renamed ‘34C casserole’.
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It doesn't take a genius to figure how he sank, in the drink, like Jeff Buckley. Like a stone.
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Your usage of the English language / is awkward and passé—
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Nard writes back: "LOL. Um. Not sure what to make of your video."
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Rumor was their only mission was to smash all the glass in the world. They sneezed and smashed and laughed like hell.
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No flinch, no stretch, no letting the cook get all golden about the chopping block.
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...it's about female needs, Rex.
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The strange bones of language
wander the room.
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There is nothing like your first time, and by that I am referring of course to the first time you purchased a 45.Going to a record store and buying a 45 is a uniquely Boomer experience. Because, alas, there are no more 45s. Or, for that matter, record stores. The…
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One of the men leaned over and spit long and dark next to where the dog lay curled. He said something about the senora, and the other men laughed.
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Warranties are what made America great, although hers has expired and the mailbox will remain empty for another fifteen days.
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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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The nearsighted world/
puts on its lenses
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He took the car out into the middle of Nowhere, Mexico, and drove it at top speed, off-road for a day and a night. I am talking strut-breaking, axle-wrecking, wheel-bending, paint-peeling conditions and balls-to-the-wall, testosterone-drunk driving.
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I was headed back inside my den since these creeps just wouldn’t stop and thought they were the most hilarious creatures on the face of the earth, and I was afraid, to be honest, that one of their missiles might hit me in the eye. That’s when I n
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And suddenly, I have this crazy impulse, so crazy and so puzzling I do not possess enough vocabulary and grammar skills to describe what is invisible and what is visible about it. The reader must excuse me and be attentive.
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Two days before Christmas 1946, my mother put me on an Illinois Central railroad train at the whistle stop of Neoga, Illinois.
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My father is remarkably clever. That is, for a rundown, henpecked fisherman. He has caught me again. He has me slung over his back in a rickety lobster trap and I can hear him huffing and the water in him sloshing and though I can't see his face, I imagine it is ruddied…
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The instant you remember
gratitude
with enough focus to spring free its power...
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He picked up a pack of cigarettes and shook it. He flipped the lid to confirm there were none left.
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Lucky for mama, he doesn't like for his women to work.
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They coo and gurgle in the warmth of twig and down. They are so delicate, hard to look at without thinking of death. I tell them I want for them chief among all things strength, speed, resilience.
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Frowning, loosening a purple tie, Tony pushed through the golden revolving doors of a skyscraper. He drifted into the crowded midtown street as if in a daze. He was roused to his senses as his cell phone sent out the melody of his wedding song.
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Remembering Ginsberg
who howled through just about everybody's idea of the real weirdo poet
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and watched you grinning from your opulent spinning cages and although you were never less than always remarkably perfumed, toappeal I'm guessing to the sniffing about masses, to me they've…
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I had a dream. "And it was a long dream, as dreams go. . ."
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I did do one nice thing for you
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