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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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160166
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israeli flares light gaza/ casting incandescent nudity/ upon jumbled puzzle piece buildings.
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160122
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Not to sound too ridiculous, but Hurt was giving me the hurt, and it felt good.
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160111
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When we started plans for the party, none of us wanted Larry to die, most of all Larry himself.
Actually, when we first started plans for the party, Larry wasn’t dying.
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16012312
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We know them just enough/
to recognize them when we find them.
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160100
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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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160151
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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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160172
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I must have been six years old at that time, but the events of…
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160011
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A procession of our somber youth—
stoned and stunned and
broken beyond repair—viewed
the boy carved of putty.
The mortician painted him
stuffed him, presented him
to us, the semi-living.
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160011
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Once upon a time in the days of old
There lived a poor tailor who- I am told-
Did brag that his daughter
Spun straw into gold!
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160076
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The pristine Hudson's/waters dance in the dark of/the East River's rinse.
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160050
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160074
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He calls it an owl glass: he’s allowed: he’s six.
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160064
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Zinvushka Zokolovskaya and I first met at the local botanical garden.
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160042
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THE man in the tent with the stick points to the chart on the wall and says to us all: the stats point to the end of the war by the end of the fall. A just war, not just oil. Just then Allah's shadow comes over the scene. He's here to stiffen his troops with some …
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160065
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It's just another night in the old city, perched in the skeletal radio tower with my collection of telescopes
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160096
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Everyone loves a story of love
unrequited.
But what about the stories
of the unrequited lovee?
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160088
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“I won't live here,” Beth said, waving her hand to indicate the small Southern town in which they were having dinner—the most delicious fried chicken either of them had ever tasted—in a restaurant located in an antebellum mansion. She looked…
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159933
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two roses her eyes
aqua-blue
no, blue-green
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15991911
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Girl with glasses and
skinny fingers
playing with wires
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159982
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13 rooks on a lifeless tree
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159944
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He keeps saying it,
babbles the term like he knows what it means
and we wince and interject with mama,
mama,
mama,
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159943
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Shadows from a star
Never too close
Never too far
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159944
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I try to enjoy my bookbut the mannequins keep tapping at the windowWhen I look up they vanish Outsidefibreglass clouds are kept in placeby invisible wires——Sometimes the mannequins …
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159998
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It is true that the college dogs spread vermin, reeked and shat on the soccer field...
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159982
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Mom wraps a bulky-knit scarf around my face and over my mouth. She tightens it into a big knot in back of my collar.
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159993
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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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159953
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Twenty-two tornadoes tore through Toronto, spiraling steel and stone to the streets where she stood, texting her best friend.
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159977
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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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159922
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...you should pick a VERY OLD millionaire. Very old, and NOT VERY WELL...
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