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He was losing his fight with
malaria, but you would never
know it from his dreams
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154652
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Do you remember who I am yet?
I remember the first time you made love to me. It appears I was one of the lucky ones … it wasn’t in a car, it wasn’t in your Dad’s boat, underwater, or any other weird place you've written about. It was actual
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She was as beautiful as flowers in a dream
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154622
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Beautiful boy! I am doomed / to have attended your presence; / time consumes us, but you / have changed so little...
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154673
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Who ever saw an open upright pop bottle on the street?
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The best thing about being a cowboy is the cows.
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That contraption he’d invited her to pedal, somebody oughta market one of those. The closer you got the harder it got, and her feet kept slipping off the pedals. It was maddening.
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154694
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In this lab, where I work 40 hours a week,
live the ghosts of questions asked.
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154632
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My twin sister Ilene has recently taken up with a man named “Darrell,” who is a member of the Shriner's Fun Korps, a motorized paramilitary group.
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154564
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We became The World Famous Shadow Puppet Theater because we thought that the best way to become world famous was to act as though we already were.
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the swarthy terror network
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Sure my man. Show me the token I’ll show you the slice.
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How they all beat the small drum/
of the word within the world
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154510
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It was the middle of May when I found out my teacher was screwing my mother.
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154543
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The snow buzzes in the Ritalin air beneath Dairy Queen clouds
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Except where its waves break gently,/
white frothed and reassuring along the shore,
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154563
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It’s that laugh of hers that gets me...
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The catchy tune and cloying lyrics/
nonetheless etch their patterns
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154500
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Ever since they switched from paper scripts to the little rubber balls branded with code I have been inundated with sickness.
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154463
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N-n-never screamscold a cat.
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154422
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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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He pours both of us another drink and I take a gulp, even though it seems to be half vodka. My body slows, the alcohol confusing my nervous system. I rest my head on his shoulder. He doesn’t reach out to me. I wonder if this makes me the aggressor, but, a
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15442016
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The night before his mother's teeth began chattering.
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154410
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“If Sir would observe, the storm welt, a shoe for the big occasion, a shoe that will guide sir through the dismal passages, a shoe that will roar in the face of adversity and …”
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154430
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my molars are dancing, tekka-tekking to the strung-out paint can groove of my heart.
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You should never have believed your daddy when he said a man with half a dog was better off than a man with no dog at all.
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Can you see the rut? Can you dig your fingers into the flesh?
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