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Morning's first blush, their world in repose. Sated, drained, spent; …
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169953
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For reasons he couldn't fathom, his motorcycle only moved in reverse. He engaged the engine and lurched backward hard. He called a friend, a gear-head with perpetually dirty nails, asked him to look it over.
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169970
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On the way to the drinking fountain, Elysia Martin, a third grader at St. Michael's Parochial School, heard a voice calling her name. When she turned toward the white plaster statue of the Virgin Mary that sat between twin hedges in the rose garden, she
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1699126
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Defy the impulse to grow beyond/
your means and the means of the/
place where you lie at night.
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169910
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"My tits, " she instructed "aren't for public consumption".Everything was actually muffled and my ears began to bleed because of how progressively louder the thumping was in the center of my chest. Stacy decided to emphasize her point of disliking the objectification…
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169977
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I can barely pick out the numbers on the houses
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169954
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My old buddy Snoop Dogg saunters into the room, and we go through a handshake routine that takes over ten minutes, ending with double-backflips and some brotherly penis swordplay.
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169922
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169972
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"Penning a slight of tongue well versed
or worse, a salacious lie..."
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169920
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Contemporary persecution of Christians takes on milder forms of torture like having to explain away something Pat Robertson said, or constantly having to hear about Fred Phelps picketing funerals because he happens to hate homosexuals.
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1699104
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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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169986
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Our afterlife depends upon//
what interesting shape
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169876
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you might as well be blind
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169877
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We are/no more than heartbeats on repeat.
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16981110
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44 miles out
the gauntlet of Red River pines
cast shadows pointing north.
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169811
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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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16982012
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The eyes, luminous and large-
each an infinite bright blue ocean
Wind ruffles feathers
My ego and vanity also/
encourage me not to wear a mask.
An aberration/
that general circumstances/
will remedy, and soon.
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16981613
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He'd hung above her head for months.
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169820
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[B]y fleeing the city to live on the outskirts of nowhere—a place so far off the beaten path that even Duras’s aging Mr. Andesmas would have felt isolated—I was of course trying to escape from none other than myself.
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16981111
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Vera Wang I saw you on Oprah today girl. Oh no no no.
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1698109
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What grabbed the mind when you heard about it was the way he did it.
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169831
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As a rule, she calls me whenever she’s waiting for her train or bus. ‘Hiya… How’s life-’ she starts off sweetly. Even though I should know better by now, I can only respond in the same old way. I’ll say: ‘Hi Kate!’. Next, I’ll try to te
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169800
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For you –
because you deserve more effort
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1697109
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Polylinguists lash me
with tongues I cannot conjugate
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169782
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13 rooks on a lifeless tree
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16971916
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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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169700
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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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1697125
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I walked along the beach today, and there I saw them all; including the latest lost: little Tiven, Tommy, Michaela & my Paul. Grandma painted at her easel, set upon the dune. Uncle Eddie bent in half, laughing like a loon, Oliver growled…
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No bustling inside
No extruded amber
Wings onyx straight jackets
A low hum of displeasure.
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