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Polylinguists lash me
with tongues I cannot conjugate
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169221
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"For several days thinking they had found a dead man’s boot beside the highway..."
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169281
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The dowdy woman in fart nailed the vim.
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169211
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King's splendid stronghold Pressing down the earth below Broken by the grass
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16921916
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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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169243
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Unconsciously she shook her head at her own weakness in coming out to see Wayne when things were in shambles at home. Guilt had beat resolve in the cosmic game of rock paper scissors.
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169232
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She never saw me pull the wings off live flies or throw wood lice in the fire just to see them shrivel, drown a beetle in a stream of warm pee.
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169275
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Why flash?because the moments, the moments, they pass in flashes of brilliancethat shudder, death glow alightand nothing makes sense beyond nowand nothing will help me but meand I am not even enoughnot my thoughts or your nod of assentor even the deep sigh of…
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169243
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“I want you to know that you are being watched,” Ernie said. “I have trained a camera on your work station.”
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16921212
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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
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169244
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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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1692109
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What grabbed the mind when you heard about it was the way he did it.
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1692117
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No bustling inside
No extruded amber
Wings onyx straight jackets
A low hum of displeasure.
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169187
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a mere forty years/and maybe you become twelve,/maybe sixty-three.
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If I felt like reading a book
then I would read a book
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169176
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In human rights, a man and a woman may marry and bring forth a family. It is a civil right in the U.S. but not a human right (as far as I know) to raise a child singly without the knowledge of the other parent.
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We brought oxygen with us because we knew, everyone knows, there is no air on Mars. Everyone told us this as they waved goodbye back on Earth. Jay's mom even said, “Goodbye, honey, have a nice time and remember, there's no air on Mars. Are you aware of that?”…
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I was seeing the owl lady from time to time when I met Caroline.
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169187
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graves left or graves lost, into silence death sinks:/it's leaving the living that leaves us such pain.
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169163
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"...easier to get milk from a male tiger than mercy from him."
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1691126
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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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169110
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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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169165
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So few dreams are the doors they seem.
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Ug seemed kinda down in the dumps so, uncharacteristically for a male hominid, I asked him why he looked so glum.
“Ug no find nice girl,” he said, poking a stick in the dirt.
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I do this when I think of you. Today we took the first steps towards you're never here.
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169111
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Tension slipped from my grip on the dagger as my legs and faith fell apart.
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a girl with wolves, dogs and a bear
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169189
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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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I figure maybe I’m mostly alone; they are all running down staircases or falling down fire escapes, some of them naked, some of them with towels, mostly probably naked though.
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