1558 4 3
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The print is not ideal, it's true.
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1558 5 1
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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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1558 2 1
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Sure my man. Show me the token I’ll show you the slice.
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in the much more terrorizing display/
of male pattern stupidity//
as seen so often on TV/
in the House and at Fox News.
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I fear my personal information travels the World Wide Web/
and mad Ukrainians will steal my name and wealth./
I fear the fiscal cliff and raising the ceiling on national debt./
I fear a death by taxes.
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rockstar, moviestar, literary supernova – burning out before all the planets are declassified.
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1558 9 8
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On my twenty-second birthday, in the spring of 1979, I had a crawfish boil, my first. Ninety pounds of red mudbugs on a picnic table spread with newspaper, my birthday cake sitting at the end of the table like an afterthought.I hadn't…
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1558 5 1
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He was choking on the fumes.
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I saw it coming from five feet
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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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1558 11 4
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The flash of love was real, the life within her was real, and the main thing now was to climb.
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1558 3 2
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...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
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His looks were polished like his shoes, his hair as black. No one would have guessed he made his living as a thief.
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1557 4 1
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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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1557 3 1
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The poppers, the Viagra, the chorizo – all had been ordered and all had arrived.
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She was as beautiful as flowers in a dream
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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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Except where its waves break gently,/
white frothed and reassuring along the shore,
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1557 3 1
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Warning: Open and read before making any dumb-ass New Year's resolutions.
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1557 11 5
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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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Innocent victims know their tonsils. Or know the sound of their forceful removal. Their mangled beauty is the grain that has gracefully substituted all the limb-hacking. The creature used to have a friend whose gestures were very harmless, …
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1556 5 3
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"My ex Maxine claimed red wine was the healthy alcohol choice. When we were married and I still had money she drank the expensive stuff, as if drinking Chateau Montrose 2005 instead of two buck chuck made her any less of a wino. She would have been better
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1556 2 1
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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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1556 9 6
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It hangs unspoken in the sadness he pushes through his harmonica, while his hands work the old, beat-up guitar that tries to be a Gibson for his fingertips.
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1556 5 2
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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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How they all beat the small drum/
of the word within the world
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Things don't always go to plan. Gem knew what people would have said back then, of course. She wasn't stupid.
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1556 3 1
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"do you know what your problem is when it comes to girls?"
she must mean other than the fact that they're all
completely insane. or at least all the ones i've dated.
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In the last test Anna barely managed to stay within the limit, but right now she had problems with her father in law who’s been luring her husband into alcohol, and with her husband who’s been luring the father in law into drugs.
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