2835 3 2
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"...leafing through the
SEBRING 100 WALLAMATIC
record selector..."
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2835 17 4
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I was not the first to hear the dog speak, though I was, I think, the first who thought to listen.
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2834 9 10
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Step off, dude. I have no intention of coming back to you.
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2834 31 24
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Write a list of what's wrong with everyone else.
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2833 15 10
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I no longer go for walks without my bamboo stick. Tightly held in my hand, thin and light, it beats the invisible particles which try to land on me and bite. My face is hidden as in shame under a rough gag, my hands are getting rusty, missing the touch of other hands. My…
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2833 9 9
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One morning, she used a few prim phrases to break up with me. She had her suitcases packed by lunch. She was gone by dinner. Two weeks later, she emailed me a picture of herself sitting on a small brown couch.
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2832 13 12
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I’m a black and white figure--out of place in a Saturday morning cartoon.
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2828 21 11
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12. Paper Wings (Gillian Welch)
This one's really depressing. Maybe you shouldn't listen to it so much.
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2828 33 30
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I dropped out of college and flipped a coin, a 1929 half-dollar, and decided if heads, suicide. If tails, a life of perpetual travel.
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2827 60 16
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I didn't really know her. Yet, to me, she and her friends epitomized the local hip scene.
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2826 17 14
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I'm reading your remains.
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2826 25 14
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The monarchs that migrate to Mexico and California in the autumn every year live for only a month.
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2822 18 9
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I thought of driving over there across town, steering with buttered hands.
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2821 39 26
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I lie here sleepless and wait for the moment when I will touch...
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2820 9 10
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1.)At the corner deli, sweat dripping down my face, I ask for black, but Frankie adds milk. Just to spite me. Because I won't sleep with him. As if. Wonder what his wife would say? Punch me in the jaw, right? Like maybe the rules about holy wedlock vary…
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2819 11 5
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...where I grew up the only celebrity one could count on seeing was Santa Claus...
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2819 2 2
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A solitary snake, his belly full, stretched out in the sun. His uncoiling swept sand and small rocks to the left and right. Ah, he thought, I have the power to move mountains from my path. See how the lowly earth makes way for my comfort.
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2818 28 23
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the waves all green and gooey, all / pommes frites, ruinous, insolent, half / fractal
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2817 7 3
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2816 14 7
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Are you there? It’s been so long since I had someone to talk to. Besides Oscar and Wilde, I mean. I feed them crumbs of bread. They’re my pet rats, my only friends. Besides you, of course. How kind of you to remember me! How shall I begin?
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2815 25 21
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“Your sister is a slut,” said Ma to me over supper.
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2813 1 0
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Was it hope or despair that drove her to walk out the door of the place she had called home for the past twenty years? Did she feel sorrow or relief to leave behind a husband and five children?
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2812 6 2
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The stainless steel tiles are cool upon the soles of her feet. Attendants have arranged all of her equipment, both digital and mechanical, including ink and needles. An overhead screen snaps into view, and his young muscled body is revealed.
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2811 14 8
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Just stay at home woman, and do your job /
wash those dishes, mama, its what I pays you for
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2810 22 21
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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.
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2810 62 19
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Should I have shooed the cats from my bed? Shaken awake the silky tangle of feline true love curled at my feet? Shut their bedroom door against them? Perhaps, maybe, I don’t know.
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2808 38 20
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One dinner party, two couples, three bottles of wine.
A moonbeam shone on the balcony. They felt a slight shifting under their chairs and heard a quiet scraping sound, then the apartment slid out from the building and lifted away.
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2808 4 1
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Black Panther Founder Bobby Seale has come to Yellow Springs, Ohio—a leafy village east of Dayton-- to carry his message of "the continuing human liberation struggle" to the 2002 graduating class of Antioch College.
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2805 39 16
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2805 35 25
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Their mother never teaches them to wipe front to back or to brush their teeth before bed.
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