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Can we survive our Y chromosome?
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149900
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Still as the knife on the counter there still. Like mothballs in a chest. One with clear bags and newspaper clippings and your scarf inside it. The baby girl could put a mothball in her mouth and suck it like a penny. The way too close to a light bulb bur
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149952
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I’ve just moved to New York City and, somehow, Scarlett Johansson is at the same party I’m at.
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14982112
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We lie sleepless at night, enraged,/
and finger the keyboard
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149863
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"Eye contact is essential as it shows confidence. I walk with purpose and hope that my skirt isn’t too short. "
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149892
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The bus heads west on Route 36, toward the next stop – Howell, New Jersey. After driving ten minutes, and after crossing the tracks, the bus gets a flat.
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1498109
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Polylinguists lash me
with tongues I cannot conjugate
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1498126
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forced to submit/
to reasonableness//
and universal healthcare.
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149822
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" I have no idea what's goin on out here, and I'm gonna find out one way or another."
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149895
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A spire
that had stood one hundred and forty years
fell in
a single second of the blackest day.
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149811
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After years of unsustainable binge spending and a global economic semi-meltdown, most people have had to cut back on their expenses. Many folks are struggling to make do in this new and bewildering economy and we are all learning to live on our means, rather than beyond…
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149800
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Mayumi and her friends arrived at the beach. The sun was near setting for the night, and a few stars began an early peek in the twilit sky.
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149876
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I pay for 3 Trump Troll Dolls and a package red licorice twizzlers and head back toward the door. Dancing Gnome Girl is there to greet me. I stick a twizzler in the teeth of the donation pail.
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149892
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She liked talking to him, even now, when they’d spent three years talking. She thought about other conversations with other men at other bars, some of the bars on the water and some of them tucked behind shopping centers or off of different h
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149820
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With a roar and short burst of flame, the dragon awoke, startled.
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149813
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After he got on one knee, and she said, I do. After they watched the televised bombs disappear the city. After everyone fell asleep. After shock and awe, him and her making love…
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149821
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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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149800
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A Nocturne, whose grey mana seeped out of it mouth, grabbed the roof of the building with its large claws. Using it as leverage, it stood itself up, hunched over, its long whale like head roared like a loud horn.
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149852
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Billie Holiday and I want a cup of coffee and they tell us to go fuck ourselves.
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149820
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She dips a toothpick in ink, running prick over paper, simply to prove herself wrong.
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149831
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The old man sat in the run-down shack, nursing his lobol-weed tea, and cursing the bitter cold wind outside.
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149841
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threads of Cocoa Krispies
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1498128
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I was hope, and
you were what I can only call
consolation, as day after day you
remained a grief in my throat.
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149885
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It's good enough. Spacious. Then the cards but I am not for cards. Sasha directs the people, helping them, at ease and happy even. Strangers that have found a common denominator in games. A brotherhood and sisterhood I can't understand. I watch. I see green…
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149811
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He had a handsome dial tone, we called him every name but his.
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1498148
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Yes, he'll be quiet. Very quiet. He rocks himself, the ark, suddenly imagining water underneath him, over head, all around. Water, water, water—
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149855
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there should be a word for it.
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1498119
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skin cancer
walks along Zuma beach
at noon
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149787
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a mere forty years/and maybe you become twelve,/maybe sixty-three.
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149788
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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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