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I must have been six years old at that time, but the events of…
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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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167100
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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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167184
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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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1671109
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Polylinguists lash me
with tongues I cannot conjugate
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167144
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It was a dark and stormy night.
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1671105
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He was instantly on her, pulling at her nightgown
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167143
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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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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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For a few/
vivid weeks, deciduous shrubs and trees/
will seem to glow like flames and embers
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167163
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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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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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167076
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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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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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167083
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the sound of ashes/ being poured in the kitchen
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1670134
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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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167011
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Un consejo esconde un futuro desastre. Es como si Mar le dijese a Desierto "amigo...impresionante. Dejate elevar por la atracción de Luna y verás". Y Desierto le replicase "está bien, y tú Mar, deja que Viento lleve tus olas hasta el nacimiento de los ríos, es brutal". …
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1670124
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Xanax, A hand gun, And the courage to pull the trigger
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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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167054
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Bill decided he hated his neighbors on a Sunday morning in June.
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