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“You have no idea what your lives will be like if you can get out of the ‘hood. You could be driving Volvos, eating Tuscan cuisine, getting MacArthur ‘genius’ grants!”
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160264
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It's that day in July when you feel really bummed because you can't find your favorite white sleeveless shirt that you wear on the hottest days of the yea
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160174
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I wonder how many crumbs
he can drop to make a cookie,
whole, so I can relax a little
and throw out the self help books
about how I'm not right in
the motherfucking head,
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160141
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On the way home, “Friendly honk,” he said.
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160120
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I was ashamed of my conscience.
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160186
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remembering Cahokia, a place we rent near the water's edge, for we dare not enter
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160174
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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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160187
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It doesn't take a genius to figure how he sank, in the drink, like Jeff Buckley. Like a stone.
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160187
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tumbling for you from afar as close-up. They will rewrite your dancing form like a proper magical spell on all their maddest days, using the branches of cherished trees dipped into the trapped wells of certain hosts of …
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160155
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awoke in confusion, fear and hurt never seen before that day a year past
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160131
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The TV projects from an insect arm. It has the face of my ex-husband, smiling and void. I like to set small fires and inhale them.
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160154
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We were wild, medieval magpies,
sweaty and sweet and selfish; and so much more
than we were before I lit that first stick of spice,
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1601127
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Essences of bull and bison,//
stag and horse, illuminate/
the stony underground.
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160100
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In order to be a catalyst for catharsis — which is just a fancy way of saying agent of change — you have to be willing to condition yourself into something partially inhuman. Only something on the very outskirts of humanity…
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“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”
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160088
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It is the first day of summer, a blue-green afternoon, and we sit beneath the English oak, Quercus robur. Everything has at least two names. It is the first day of summer, or the last day of something else.
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160031
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If this is trouble, please call someone else.
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160097
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awfully evil decisions upstairs in your head that could come back to haunt you in your later years;I'm here to report your zooming about hair isn't really one of them. You have found the infernal wheel works in all four directions at once. Good for you.…
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160000
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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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160012
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An yet we are all inmates...
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1600126
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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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16001811
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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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1600198
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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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1600118
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None of this is real, he says, and the path slopes down to a house that is possibly haunted. One always looks in such windows, one cannot not look at the predictable detritus of another's failure, a queer satisfaction, a fairy's dust. But no, not real, none of it. And…
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160022
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He began life as we all do, an almost indeterminate blob. Ultrasound sonar plotting his outline on screen. The echo chambers of his beating heart dispelling the ectoplasmic impression of mere ghostly existence. His rudimentary …
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1600118
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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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159995
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as distant lights
all must shiver
before joining in
a Milky Way river
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159900
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Everybody knew Billy Miller. He had messy hair and crooked teeth that he hid behind a thin-lipped smile. He and his friend Jimmy Rodgers, who everyone called Cock on account of his red hair that stuck up like a comb, were inseparable. They liked to ste
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