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like the dome of an immense lamp
like blades of grass at the sweep of the scythe
like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide
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168551
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His shirt, striped, fuzzy, is of fabric like velour and wreaks havoc with sunlight. His seat faces the aisle, I am sitting forward-faced across the aisle, we are on a half-full city bus, this afternoon.It is a funny shirt so I smile. I am not smiling because of…
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168581
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The dowdy woman in fart nailed the vim.
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1685154
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This cell the sole certainty,
all else steeped in mystery.
Why should we be here?
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168543
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Shadows from a star
Never too close
Never too far
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168551
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Though we came to life as to a school/
We leave without graduating
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168582
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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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168500
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I'm subconsciously a sucker for guys who are no good for my
self-esteem. Or waistline.
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1685109
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What grabbed the mind when you heard about it was the way he did it.
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1685104
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Come, bring your sadness
to the precipice of my body,
bury it within me like a tool
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168530
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Chapter one I was sitting in the doctor's office. For weeks, my nerves had been on edge, and I had been feeling like he was going to have a nervous breakdown. I needed the help of a professional. It was hard for me to admit this. I was taught that a man handled…
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He asked me if I was going to buy Valentine's for the office this year, and I shook my head. We were in the dollar store, February 13, and I could get a box of twenty kids' Valentines with last year's favourite cartoon…
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168554
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Bill decided he hated his neighbors on a Sunday morning in June.
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168487
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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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168482
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13 rooks on a lifeless tree
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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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168421
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Tell them words are math counting forever four letters of truth
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168432
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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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168433
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By February, I had decided,
That you'd tear out my throat every morning
if it meant your favorite song would play from my neck.
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He just had to tell somebody. Anybody.
So he called up his publisher, L., who agreed to meet him at Oliveira’s for a drink. It only took about ten minutes to walk there from his big duplex in the Elmwood, where he was still living with his wife among
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168400
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Their faces covered in shadow, smiles so relaxing, a tall woman approached her, gently rubbing her face. Her lips moved with no sound, but Sora subconsciously understood what she said.
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168411
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The crowd- which consisted of exclusively men with beards and djembe drums and women with hairly legs poking out of corduroy patchwork skirts- cowered and crawled in fear around the angry man-bomb, mortally frightened yet encouraged to shimmy because the
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It's important to make a sure sound. It's not impossible you know. It's just funny I suppose, like being in a dream of another dream. All these things could be mashed and tumbled together to make us one big clay hero, someone…
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If I felt like reading a book
then I would read a book
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168344
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It was a dark and stormy night.
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168377
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We are/no more than heartbeats on repeat.
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1683126
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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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168365
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So few dreams are the doors they seem.
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168351
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"Good, it's Link Wray again,"
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-Love is a rushing
of blood
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