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Our ironies don’t make us happy
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1500118
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"I remember thinking, 'Good.'
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150041
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I'm in our bed eating yesterday's pizza and chain-watching pirated foreign horror films
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150064
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Luke was in the gutter, his face in stagnant water littered with cigarette butts, condom wrappers, and green shards of glass from broken beer bottles. A man was kicking him in the face with a boot the size of a U-boat, over and over and over again. Blood
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150020
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No matter how you do it, forgetting something doesn’t mean as much once you’ve forgotten.
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150000
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The sound of the crowd’s excitement, their smiles, and laughter started to turn Mayumi’s thoughts about life in the Magi world.
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150051
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"Good, it's Link Wray again,"
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150043
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Shadows from a star
Never too close
Never too far
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150064
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"...innocent butterflies of pollution
trapped and entangled,"
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150055
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I got an email notification that your relationship status had changed to Single...
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150032
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Not a fuss, not a stink,
The eulogy, deep, will make one think,
Grandmother, sat in back, will wink
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150041
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The months leading up to that night were unbearable. It was as if a debt loomed over us begging to be paid. We both knew I would find you dangling at the end of a rope, it was only a matter of when.
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150077
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He laughs and runs just like the other boys even though he doesn’t have a father now, just his mom.
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1500124
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Xanax, A hand gun, And the courage to pull the trigger
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1500104
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A Parody of Keats I stood at silent thought upon a clump Of nettles, swaying in the od'rous air- That blew from my own trousers, by the dump; That it had not blown more lent me despair. The dulcet horn gave melody, rare…
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150044
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Tears and tears and tears flowed
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150093
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“You have no idea what your lives will be like if you can get out of the ‘hood. You could be driving Volvos, eating Tuscan cuisine, getting MacArthur ‘genius’ grants!”
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149900
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I have never seen doubt on the face of a Roman general,' he said, ‘but when you looked at me and said “I know”…that was a certainty I'd never encontered. You have crossed the Acheron twice.'
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1499177
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a song jolts my memory . . .
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14991412
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Usually I’m the only guy in a roomful of women. Some of them are foxy, too.
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149980
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149997
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I want to tell you things you do not know.
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149996
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Everyone loves a story of love
unrequited.
But what about the stories
of the unrequited lovee?
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149820
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I was ashamed of my conscience.
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149852
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Send me a secret story in a song just for me
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14981610
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A figure left the building.
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149863
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“I mean it, Hanna. I don't want you to.” But his leg felt carved away where her head had lain. One stupid thing jostling another for attention. He was afraid that if she touched him again, he'd have her on the ground.
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149831
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149865
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The clarinet and the accordion are brothers, I see. Big, fat men with curly, klezmer hair.
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149811
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1. The sparrows' heads revolve slowly when you press the red button, but the boxing glove attachments don't work.2. A weird weaving of voices, unmusical harmony. One phrase punctures the texture: “The empty slot.”3. Poems are processed into more useful verbal…
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