1555 3 2
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...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
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155441
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Infinite patience, tempered glass hearts—is this what it takes? /
Shatterproof backtrack, slow march through reversals—too, what it takes.
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155431
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The poppers, the Viagra, the chorizo – all had been ordered and all had arrived.
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1554117
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the swarthy terror network
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155495
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My body feels chilly but it's not from the outside temps. It seems to me it's the opposite of a fever.
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155464
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I pull into the parking lot and see a group of roosters squawking and trying to overturn an ‘87 Pontiac Bonneville that's caught fire. They're pouring whiskey down their throats. They're weeping over a bag of economy sized frozen breast fillets.
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155484
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I remember having a beer once
And feeling like a minor god
And I know in some lie you told
Your life began making sense
And I also know that the mind likes logic
But the heart loves chaos
I just hope flies land on the butter of your soul
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155410
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155321
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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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155342
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155351
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Because he tells her to, she puts on a vintage Easter dress one size too small and sprawls in a circle of light on the dusty floor...
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155352
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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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155322
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Light “I can escape the feeling of complicity in it only by speaking out.” The professor arrives on time, sockless. The former a sign of his polite upbringing. The latter, his lack of pretense and high …
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155373
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Who ever saw an open upright pop bottle on the street?
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155351
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He was choking on the fumes.
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1553127
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1553117
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I saw it coming from five feet
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15531310
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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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15531312
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Forty years later he was still her Romeo, she his Juliet.
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1553115
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I didn't believe in hiding secrets or broken arrows. So I told my new girlfriend, who in earnest, tried shedding pounds like ugly memories, who glued herself to my shag carpet, watching exerise videos--that I didn't sleep alone. I tried to be as sensitive as possible,…
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155374
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I break your flesh
and make music
on the harp of your bones.
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155210
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It was the middle of May when I found out my teacher was screwing my mother.
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155210
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If you work with the public, you're stressed. Unreasonable customers. Demanding bosses. Reduced staffing. I love my job, but the workload is tough and getting tougher. What can we do to keep our spirits up?Play Customer Appreciation! It's simple. Assign a point value…
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155233
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Things looked way too normal to be normal. The cold, gliding black eyed swans never once straying far from each other's wake, the cute blue jeaned lovers everyone secretly watched carefully picking their trickling way over small odd rocks and…
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155222
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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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1552109
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Catherine, after another haunted, bewildering morning wondered if there might be a way to hide from her nightmares. Was there a way to trick them? Shouldn't she try? She drove over the bridge, something she didn't often do, to buy…
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155267
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Except where its waves break gently,/
white frothed and reassuring along the shore,
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155250
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She said “I have to go”, he answered with his eyes “Don't” and they stepped closer to each other in the kitchen, a step on the tiled floor, the remnants of their tea cold on the counter top.
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155121
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Sure my man. Show me the token I’ll show you the slice.
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155165
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I stole forth dimly in the dripping pause
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