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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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167155
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I keep my love for you in me, /
like the egg of a worm,
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167144
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It was a dark and stormy night.
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167154
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facts are facets are / things in the act // the truth speaks softly // as time saying amber / to the enduring sap // words come and go / like leaves like men // we the tree remain ...
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167165
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The clarinet and the accordion are brothers, I see. Big, fat men with curly, klezmer hair.
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167121
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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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167133
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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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167174
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Food is silly. Eating is silly. Yet the camaraderie of sharing a table is not silly. It is sacred. It becomes silly when the jello arrives.
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167163
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Another bird hits the large plate glass patio doors as I am sipping my morning coffee.
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167120
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He gave her cancer. He gave her cancer.
Not what she said. She said her relationship gave her cancer. Her relationship with him. Gave her cancer.
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167096
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I held her hand through two divorces, I warned her that gorgeous Geoffrey was homosexual when she was oblivious, and I fed her children when she was off at rehab (four times before it 'took').
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167021
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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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167086
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Your laugh used to startle the nurses.
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167043
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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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167083
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the sound of ashes/ being poured in the kitchen
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167094
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William Shakespeare (a surname that meant "wanker" back in the day, by the way)
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167089
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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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167062
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I took a lover on Ibiza either because he was clean-smelling or because he had a hotel room and there were none to be had.
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167094
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I It's been there all week, Nose tucked into tail Comfort found between impact and asphalt II I'm still here logged out, still here Had it with the billboards the check engine light milemarkers... Just…
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167054
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Bill decided he hated his neighbors on a Sunday morning in June.
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166984
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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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1669105
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He was instantly on her, pulling at her nightgown
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166963
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A week ago, Lina had felt a pain crack over her right eyebrow. It was there every day, creeping from her ear to the middle of her forehead.
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166921
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You were gone, long gone, and I could no longer smell your scent as I walked through the empty house. I couldn't bring myself to unpack the boxes, and they lurked like a forest of overgrown drab Legos.
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1669124
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Xanax, A hand gun, And the courage to pull the trigger
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166942
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166900
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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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166985
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Marv felt a stirring. Warmth in his gut. "Maybe we should get together," Marv said.
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166866
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some answers are enough to make you cry or laugh yourself to death
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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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