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Roy Carver owned a big tire retreading outfit over on the Mississippi.
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Weight of faithlessness...
Mist
Of bodily
Existence
Grave expectations for the future
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Many hours to make a brick: many bricks to make a curve.
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My apologies also for those crowded roads you and your families have to drive on. My generation would have built more public transportation but, in all honesty, we just didn't give a damn.
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For you have waited. And waited and waited. And soon your slice of bread will be ready.
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There's a large tunnel that runs under my house. I can only estimate but it's not deep below the ground and that's what worries me.
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This liberated you/
to grind me hard/
on the dance floor
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I don't care much for Joking, which is not to say that I don't care at all for Joking, just that I don't care much. I would say, if I had to say, that I care for Joking about as much as I care for a cousin, not a close cousin, one I have a genuine frien
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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I wondered if Mr. Slane even knew/
how many dogs he owned
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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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Afterward, at the motel, I asked her why she liked sex so much, and she said she liked the taste.
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The snap of a broken heart is exactly One second longer than this poem is going To be when it finishes up being said . The snap Of a broken heart is unlike anything that Cartwheels out of sync with the rest of Us truly lucky ones. The broken snap of a …
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"In the grave my lips will still be moving."
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My grandmother is magnificently breasted in her floor-length nightgown.
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“Tell me again,” you whisper softly, “about the songbird.”
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Cockroaches in bed was the last straw. Alicia was sure she’d swallowed one in the middle of the night . . .
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Snakes have no eyelids, no hips, no lobby in Washington (some creatures do!) and little support at home.
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[VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.]
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We didn't know him from Adam...
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I heard this story from my grandmother who heard it from her grandmother who heard it from an uncle, who was a monkey.
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The year is 2110. The earth is no longer habitual for human beings. The oceans are gone, the sky is red and radiated and the last vestiges of human civilian are located within the confines of massive barrier cities. For a century mankind has been at war w
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Funny, funny stuff. She'll be here all week--be sure and tip your speech therapist!
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King's splendid stronghold Pressing down the earth below Broken by the grass
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Sarge had done this before. Not with this many rookies and not on a one-way trip. This was a suicide mission. The boys didn't know it, but he did. They weren't coming back. Hell, they couldn't come back
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fate is an illusion we use to ease the terror of our mortality
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There is truth you can’t escape or say any other way and expect it still to be truth.
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He did it in front of the waiter and everything.
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