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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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169410
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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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169400
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Alysia tried to focus on what was important, but it was too much to bear. She was ready to dive down when a shot of wind blew past her, causing her and Megumi to lose control over their gliders.
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1694172
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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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169412
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An yet we are all inmates...
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169421
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Tell them words are math counting forever four letters of truth
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169454
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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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16941811
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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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1694198
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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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169411
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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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169472
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I must have been six years old at that time, but the events of…
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169444
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“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”
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169410
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[CAUTION: TO PREVENT ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER. NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE. REFER SERVICE TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL.]
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169465
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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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169355
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I keep my love for you in me, /
like the egg of a worm,
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169374
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I was just sitting in the corner, stirring my stories with a straw that sucked characters out of bars.
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1693154
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This cell the sole certainty,
all else steeped in mystery.
Why should we be here?
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169365
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Santa’s stuck/you say? In the chimney of course./The lard-arsed ol’bastard struggling
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169310
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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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169375
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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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169321
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He repeated these six words like a prayer. His only confession.
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169300
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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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1693136
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169363
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Another bird hits the large plate glass patio doors as I am sipping my morning coffee.
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169265
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So few dreams are the doors they seem.
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169201
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As the four flew beside each other, they shared their stories and got to know one another. Soon they learned from the voice what was happening.
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169243
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Shadows from a star
Never too close
Never too far
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1692138
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She bought a dog with short legs to make her own legs look longer.
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169233
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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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1692127
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strung from her window to a tree
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