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Regime is elected officials ignoring constituents, ignoring protestors, ignoring history
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168420
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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1684105
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Walter met Danial at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. They didn't have much in common at first, other than AA, with Walter on the recovery side of treatment and Danial reluctantly just beginning.
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1684108
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hookers are better educated these days
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168444
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We'll all face the raging river, some sooner than others.
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168462
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Chubby. Plump. Pudgy. Portly. Bulky. Buxom. Rotund. Ample. Hefty. Corpulent. Zaftig.
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168475
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One day it was boring / to be alive.
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168343
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Except for the bathroom stalls—you know the one that goes “Here I sit all broken-hearted”—the only poetry in the house is composed by Hazel, recited to her fawning sycophants.
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168331
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If this is trouble, please call someone else.
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168354
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...That flash of horror as well as the lie that replaced it were mirrors of sorts and both told the truth.
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168343
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We decide not to go to the emergency room
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168322
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It is a hot August night — the same kind you remember from that summer after high school graduation. A cool breeze blows in off the ocean, sweeping across the boardwalk just hard enough to dry the …
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168363
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It was only a dream. No one died, nor were they even harmed. So horrifying!
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168300
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That old woman's got to be senile or something. The other day she asked my daughter if I had a "thing about water." Sharon told her I didn't, but then came right in and asked me, "Mother, you got a thing about water?"
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168300
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But here it was, Friday afternoon with Deborah checking MySpace for interesting bulletins or messages before she made some weekend plans, finding a blog from Fred posted that same morning with two simple sentences.
"I know. I've known for a long time.
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168320
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On Martini Business Nights the rules of decorum were written by Esquire or Playboy.The red bar-side book divulges the secrets brewed with ice, libation and a sleek chrome shaker, because its all about the accoutrement, and technique. Mr Boston said that, NOT James Bond. If…
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1683128
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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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168331
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Nothing is ever hoarded in our house, everything is eaten.
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168311
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He had a handsome dial tone, we called him every name but his.
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168300
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This is the most frustrating kind of amnesia.
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168386
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The world is upon us. The only thing that matters Now is if you are willing to be seen by them. Many moths Will be hidden by simply gathering on the bark Of the one tree, but this will not sustain you if you Do not also have the courage…
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16822413
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I would fly drones with hydrochloric acid sprays/
over their squadrons and watch the disfigurement/
begin. I love disfigurement...
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OF ALL 2,000 YEARS 10 Point The city after the snow was Medieval, the thousand paths wound as browsing deer. Inside her coat what wild heart. Lethe The beads were rolled-river at her throat, milk blue on a yellow string. I…
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168233
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They look like giant golden raindrops, or flying saucers, or peculiar fish out of their element
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No jagged bits of crust were thrust up/
through the prairie’s black gumbo/
to give us cataclysmic mountain views.
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168231
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The poppers, the Viagra, the chorizo – all had been ordered and all had arrived.
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168263
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My poems have appeared in four different publications; three have died shortly after they ran my stuff. Coincidence, or something more sinister?
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168200
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"You look awfully familiar," said one of the corrupt oil company execs to the dark-haired man with the sunglasses and big sideburns.
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168240
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When I heard that my brother was going to get married, I was more surprised than anything, but also awed by his courage. Our sister, named Baah Baah during a particularly bad recreational substance binge by our fun-loving, aristocratic parents, Nancy and
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