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A tough enough signal to read under the best of meteoric circumstances, this is one maybe I'll keep on thinking about. I might be able to make something everlasting out of this crazy shamble for love after all. I no longer…
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The unpublished writer remembered the carnage that surrounded his Foxhole in France and decided he was done praying. All around lay the evidence that no one was listening. The drunken pastor stumbled away.
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171711
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King's splendid stronghold Pressing down the earth below Broken by the grass
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171721
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What was so bad about other religions that their followers were automatically condemned to eternal damnation? The priests were so convincing when they claimed Christ was the only true way.
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171794
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Creep up behind me one day and prick my skin. I promise you won’t draw blood – for it is ink that will spurt from my veins.
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171765
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Santa’s stuck/you say? In the chimney of course./The lard-arsed ol’bastard struggling
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171775
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I got a sixth of a cow in the freezer
That’s not meant to be just a teaser
I guess all I’m sayin’
Come on home and you’ll be stayin’
Cause I got a sixth of a cow in the freezer
Got a rack and a half of ribs
I ain’t tellin’ you no fibs
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171755
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if it were a child/ it would be in first grade this year
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171793
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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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171711
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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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Jane says to Roy, “What are you doing, Roy?”“Fuck off, Jane, I'm reading,” says Roy.“Well you could have just said so.”“I did.”“I mean just without—”“Yeah, well fuck off anyway.”“I've had…
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171772
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"Penning a slight of tongue well versed
or worse, a salacious lie..."
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171753
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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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171765
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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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1717109
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What grabbed the mind when you heard about it was the way he did it.
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171700
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For you –
because you deserve more effort
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171765
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Q: What's the best song to sing to your doc before cataract surgery?
A: I Only Have Eyes For You
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171786
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Our afterlife depends upon//
what interesting shape
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171754
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Bill decided he hated his neighbors on a Sunday morning in June.
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1716108
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I bit her ear and /
it was burnt toast
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17161210
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of placing the rope just so; of settling
the veil with care --
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171653
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All I wanted to know was: Am I coming close? You could have given me a clue. How was I to know how deep the scar ran? I always thought scars were superficial, but I was young, and willing – what did I know?
What would they have done if they had come
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171682
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13 rooks on a lifeless tree
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171674
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He calls it an owl glass: he’s allowed: he’s six.
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171676
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you might as well be blind
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171651
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"Good, it's Link Wray again,"
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171642
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I was raised in a big city in the slow South. I know a little about cross cultural dining and where Delta Blues collides with Sly Stone, Al Green, and Zeppelin. Dirty rice in the Dirty South. Fried chicken, collards, and pintos. Fried velveeta…
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171641
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The strawberries remind me of you,Fat and fleshy,Pimple-dimpled.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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171674
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I don’t want to debate polemics while I’m sweaty and naked. I just want my hair cut.
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