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She’s not coming today. She didn’t come yesterday either.
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16462112
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We lie sleepless at night, enraged,/
and finger the keyboard
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164655
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I keep my love for you in me, /
like the egg of a worm,
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16461113
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I was seeing the owl lady from time to time when I met Caroline.
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164633
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That’s true, you know, what they said about the drummer and spontaneous combustion.
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164611
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King's splendid stronghold Pressing down the earth below Broken by the grass
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1646172
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You can tend to recognise the difference between a good and mediocre mind by observing how each reacts to a misfired original idea.The mediocre mind will praise the merely meretricious, but ignore the more interesting bad art. The higher mind will value the misfired…
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164610
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Albert Einstein was probably the genius of our age. Joe Biden is a close second, yet Einstein not only had better hair but a keener knack to think of things that no one else could, or would, or would ever want to, since if they did, their brain would shockingly combust in a…
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164643
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Shadows from a star
Never too close
Never too far
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16461212
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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
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164622
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So it's me and two other girls...
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164611
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The bathing suits are like Christmas dresses.
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164663
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The poet said, ‘I feel the fell of dark, not day.” but day it always is. Bright! Bright!
the city claims its blue salutes; its stopping in mid-sentence at a name where fingers roam a stone.
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164631
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"On the podium at Pride, he owned that he'd loved taking his children to playgroup as he got to ogle all the breast-feeding mothers. "
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164644
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Tears and tears and tears flowed
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1646104
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"Nice one, sir," the toilet said.
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164510
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“Well” I say. “What do you think about the dilemma of a guy who’s tortured by a history of incest and bondage?”
“Depends” Says Al. “On who was cested and who was bonded.
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164576
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Where horses once were tethered grows their grass . . .
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164532
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Each time his eyes closed, he shook off the sleep, whimpered, and opened them wide again. I’d never watched a baby fall asleep before, but I realized at that time that falling asleep could be a scary thing. The world gets fuzzy and starts slipping awa
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164520
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It is a dark and stormy night, naturally
We’re trying to get some sleep
at a Travelodge in Eureka
when I get up at 3 a.m. to write
“Hard motel pillow receives snoring from neighboring room”
O Thesaurus, we need another word
Maybe it sh
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164500
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Sir Reginald Lionel Windsworth described the match in Englishmen's Lahore Gazette as, "A plethora of mistakes and complete absence of human sense."
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164565
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The heart attack felt like the time Alison stabbed me with knitting needles. It made me want to see her. She was the fun wife, the first of three. I was morbid and full of regret — my drinking had driven them away, no kids in the wake. I decided to visit all of…
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164589
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I’m deathly afraid of the pub crawls
of my ancestors, through Bohemia and Fitzrovia
because of the ghosts of alcohol already
etched inside my veins
and the headlong loss of oxygen
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164487
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a mere forty years/and maybe you become twelve,/maybe sixty-three.
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16441911
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Girl with glasses and
skinny fingers
playing with wires
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164421
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"For several days thinking they had found a dead man’s boot beside the highway..."
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164474
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-- All the guys who hit on me are Virgos. -- Like Gary? -- Like Gary. -- How could Gary be a Virgo? Look what he did with his hydrangeas.
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severe snow storm coming. I'm looking for a parking spot and listening to Machito & Charlie Parker
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164485
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It was by the well on one cold early spring morning
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164465
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So few dreams are the doors they seem.
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