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the beeps, rhythmic,
tell us that you're still with us
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160863
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Morning's first blush, their world in repose. Sated, drained, spent; …
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16081610
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A figure left the building.
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160843
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I'd never seen a dead person before, let alone one that was living just
seconds earlier.
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160897
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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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1608116
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A pinprick breaks the black/
and pins the spin of constellations/
around its still point.
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1608126
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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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160841
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A heart which is alive despite everything in the world that wants to deaden it.
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160855
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awoke in confusion, fear and hurt never seen before that day a year past
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1608122
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There is nothing like your first time, and by that I am referring of course to the first time you purchased a 45.Going to a record store and buying a 45 is a uniquely Boomer experience. Because, alas, there are no more 45s. Or, for that matter, record stores. The…
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160821
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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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160854
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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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160875
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He plucks the feathers and winds thread to simulate an insect’s torso.
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160877
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They blew in the doorway of the café at the French Hotel like two sparrows chasing each other. Their wings down in the dust, unheeding any danger in their hunger for each other. I knew the man who was about to become her husband, so maybe this was her las
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160877
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You've been given some really cruel thoughts that are not your own.You've been given some really stupid sets of rules which are impossibleto follow. You can learn to manage for yourself. Remember who youwere before they told you who you were. You've been trainedsince birth…
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160871
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My mother was Irish as Paddy's pig. So all her family. Lovely people they were. Also, seldom seen among the Folk; stone cold sober. My father's family; Bavarian German. Bavaria's the wrong side of the German tracks. Frankfort people laugh at Bavarians as people in…
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1608115
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“I’m tired, Art” The Virgin said. She was already curled up beside their dog,
Lance.
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1608136
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16081513
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I asked the hospice nurse about maggots.
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160832
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Hope was beauty before I even knew what beauty was with her golden pigtails, brilliant blue eyes and an infectious smile — even after Jamie Delano flung his Frisbee, knocking out Hope’s two front teeth.
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160864
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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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160700
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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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160720
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I was ashamed of my conscience.
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160742
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Although badly educated, and although the Michoacána fought to deny it, she held the complex notion that borders are not abrupt lines, simple artifacts of geography and cartography.
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160774
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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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160700
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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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160765
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She stood there with her back to me and her dress around her ankles.
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160753
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We sat in silence, the entire train, the few other passengers in anxious wait to see if I would change my mind. We all flipped pages, glanced up at each other, looked away when noticed.
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160788
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-Love is a rushing
of blood
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160700
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"One-upmanship" is a strategy for defeating an opponent somewhat unfairly without actually cheating.
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