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a song jolts my memory . . .
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1502106
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They couldn’t have done it better if they’d waved guns around in the air.
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150255
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I got an email notification that your relationship status had changed to Single...
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150253
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Sometime in the late 60s when I was thirteen I had this paper route for the San Mateo Times.
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15021811
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"We gotta get out of here", you said
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15021312
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I asked him where he hurt and he said everywhere.
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150265
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When I got to Pete's house he was sitting on the curb smoking a cigarette, bruised and dirty, with a smoking pile of rubble behind him where his house used to be. I hadn't heard yet, but his ol' girl left him and blew up the house when she left.
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150210
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I was shooting baskets in the driveway when the Mexican kid delivered the groceries. He drove in fast and loud . . .
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15021512
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Soon enough, October’s ragged/
lawn will hide its deficiencies//
under withered leaves of oak,
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150221
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He finished the omelet and started in on the short stack. He drowned the cakes in syrup.
-Never can have enough syrup.
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150293
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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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150194
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Once upon a time there was a Vietnamese restaurant. And then there were two, and four, and eight...
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in a puddle of water, the butterfly rests on a stone
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1501116
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I might wish I was anything
including some dust on the shelf
where maybe I might blow away
unseen like the coming of rust
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150154
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Everyone hoped to be assigned somewhere they could just drop in on their way home for Memorial Day weekend. Someone said, Blake, you’re single. You hate your family, don’t you?
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150141
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I am reintroducing myself.
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150100
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Sora rubbed her neck as Azure gave her attention. She did not know where to begin, thinking about what to say first.
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150193
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You looked like someone I didn't want to know. I guess that's why I got in the car that night. My penchant for self-destruction was aroused by your black nail polish and the lavender circles under your eyes. You looked like someone that could hurt me, yeah, that's why I got…
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150144
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I considered kissing Christian. It wouldn’t be terrible. I mean, it might be terrible, but it wouldn’t be awful. His teeth were a little crooked but he didn’t smell or anything.
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150155
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It is said that lovers find lips in the dark through secret brain circuitry.
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150062
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Eddie meets Sarah Packard, a “college girl” played by Piper Laurie. She walks with a limp, a fact Eddie doesn’t notice at first because she’s sitting down at a diner table in a bus station. She’s alcoholic and writes poetry.
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150021
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"For several days thinking they had found a dead man’s boot beside the highway..."
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150063
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Let’s say you know so little about me. Like whose idea of a joke to name me Hideo for excellent male. Or why I hang out at triangle Park, ogling expatriates or crusty punks.
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1500148
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Little tech puppies, well compensated for code/
that outsourced laborers will realize in supercheap,/
superchipped gewgaws, sip artisan beers
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1500147
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15001716
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saw the world was a mess
I did nothing about it, poured myself some apple juice
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150000
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At street level there is a small arrow on which is printed “Museum of Numbers” that points up a long narrow staircase. There is a restaurant on the first floor. All the way up the stairs, the air is permeated with smell of fried foods
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150051
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I want you closeI want to feel youinside me,softening me untilmy borders are blurredand I'm hardly breathing,my heart swellingso big itbrings me to my knees,I want to know thepain of losing youeach time youclose your eyes andgo to sleep anddream of someone else,I want to…
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1500104
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"Nice one, sir," the toilet said.
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150031
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Let us be stranded in the Andes and have to eat human flesh or at least toothpaste to survive! Let there be an earthquake! Let there be a flood! Let there be a tornado, a new ice age, an invasion from Mars. Only: let me survive.
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