1652 5 4
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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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165220
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You beckon me with an aperitif.
The Kir Royal tingles, its bubbles tickling my nose.
Its subtle black courant pulls me into your smile.
I drink from your lips the champagne-tingle of your kiss.
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16521911
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1652104
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I hold them to the light...
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165221
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"Now, I'm not no Holocaust Denier . . . I just think it was a little bump in the road! Like Reagan said about Watergate . . . 'Mistakes were made,' and all. Well, shoot . . .…
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165242
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Charles the Bold is holding a pen.
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165252
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Billie Holiday and I want a cup of coffee and they tell us to go fuck ourselves.
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165200
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He reached into the bag on the table and pulled out a ten inch record, sleeved in brown paper, with a circle cut out to display the label information. He handled it delicately, like a fresh egg.
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16521410
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In those years,
you and I were told to leap
for a world suffused with sound
and industry.
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165200
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Like some beautiful yet macabre puppet, she was suspended on strings of wire, painstakingly threaded tubing flowing into her cavities, through her chambers, around her mechanics.
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165231
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“Let me in,” I begged.
“No. Get back stinky feet.”
“I washed them.”
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165295
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The instant you remember
gratitude
with enough focus to spring free its power...
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16521211
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After my vasectomy, I got a T-shirt with a picture of an orange on it. It said "All Juice, No Seeds."
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165279
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I don't know where to start. We're gaining flight. Did you seeanybody we know? The trees are always a concern. I don't thinkI know how to stop this thing from crashing into parked cars,that is if we live. You can say it was all on a stupid dare. They don't have to know…
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165200
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She didn’t think of herself as an undesirable, no, she didn’t, but did find herself cowering in face of the presumed judgment of those around her. They had more money, more clout, more everything.
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165144
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She Waited for the other Shoe to Drop
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1651104
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The next day I can’t recall at all, a waste, like the flash of twenty years of my life, faces that pass you like comets in some erogenous unnamed zone of night, but they got me in some isolation room with my wrists in leather restraints.
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165154
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Dear Conrad,
If you cannot control your dog’s barking I’ll rig up a loud speaker facing the general direction of your house, and every time your mutt starts howling at the moon, I’ll start playing “It’s a Small World (After All)” at top volume on the p
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165173
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I did do one nice thing for you
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165165
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They acquire him in a bar that is famous for its shipwrecks.
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165165
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165100
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This is the most frustrating kind of amnesia.
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165141
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We cannot love the past...
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165051
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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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165021
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my maddening pyromaniac,/ you're burning up my heart/ so open up your broad-toothed mouth/ and let me pour the ashes in.
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16502412
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One can watch the grass green/
in response. One can watch the world green/
in response.
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165052
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When a multinational big box furniture store opened just off the expressway outside the city selling all the same products at greatly reduced prices, they contemplated the possibility of closing their store.
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165063
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rockstar, moviestar, literary supernova – burning out before all the planets are declassified.
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165011
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Sleep left him like a fragmenting illusion. Suddenly, he was awake, like something pressing but fleeting had awoken him. Once awake, though, all he had was silence and stillness. His pulse quickened, his…
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1650118
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There are stories I will not tell, stories I shudder / to remember. You'll forgive me for withholding them from you. / You may, of course, not tell me everything about yourself either
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