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If the Titanic rises from the bottom of the sea,
I will meet you on deck, in a deck chair.
Fully dressed for a change.
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169711
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The bathing suits are like Christmas dresses.
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169722
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...you should pick a VERY OLD millionaire. Very old, and NOT VERY WELL...
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169700
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1697118
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He liked to take pictures of her, and she liked to pose. It made her horny, she said.
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1697119
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skin cancer
walks along Zuma beach
at noon
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169765
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Cézanne sags during a moment of paint. There is an umbrella in the room whose surface collects his thoughts. Outside, in the rain, the grass and garden smell strongly of spring. Fruit litters the table. Light through the window writhes in conversation with shape and…
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169655
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I keep my love for you in me, /
like the egg of a worm,
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169684
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(the vast preponderance of dark matter and dark energy discernible in these latter days begins to suggest just how dark the humor of existence is) . . .
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169677
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Content may contain ordinary, everyday, and all around average happenings.
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169665
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Santa’s stuck/you say? In the chimney of course./The lard-arsed ol’bastard struggling
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169612
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An yet we are all inmates...
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169600
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I met Barry Hannah once in my life. I’d come to Oxford, MS, to meet an entirely different writer whom I thought then and think now very highly of. I’d also come to escape from another slew of regrets. Oxford is a great city to run away to.
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I got a sixth of a cow in the freezer
That’s not meant to be just a teaser
I guess all I’m sayin’
Come on home and you’ll be stayin’
Cause I got a sixth of a cow in the freezer
Got a rack and a half of ribs
I ain’t tellin’ you no fibs
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169654
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I said, “That bird is hungry.”
The sparrow was eying both of us
At our separate outside café tables
As it hopped around looking for crumbs.
Then it would look up at us
Expectantly.
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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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169644
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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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169600
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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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Warning: Open and read before making any dumb-ass New Year's resolutions.
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169510
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He first saw her stepping off a water taxi by the Long Docks in the rain at night, her right arm atrophied from some early childhood disease, dangling like an apology, her other holding a cigarette. Her wet black hair hung past her shoulders and her eyes
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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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In the last test Anna barely managed to stay within the limit, but right now she had problems with her father in law who’s been luring her husband into alcohol, and with her husband who’s been luring the father in law into drugs.
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169564
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"...innocent butterflies of pollution
trapped and entangled,"
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1695198
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A proper study of human history should
lead the student to an inescapable desire
to commit suicide
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169500
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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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169572
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I must have been six years old at that time, but the events of…
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169563
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Another bird hits the large plate glass patio doors as I am sipping my morning coffee.
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169544
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“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”
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169500
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Only early June, but the heat feels like August. Eleanor and Shelby sit on the front steps of the old Victorian-style house in downtown Los Angeles, drinking homemade margaritas and watching the daylight drain away to dusk. Shelby slaps a mosquito away fr
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