1559 6 4
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Harpo was there with his wife. Harpo’s girlfriend came up behind the couch where I was sitting, and I ran my hand up her leg underneath her dress.
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155985
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The army was bulldozing grandmother's house.
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155910
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[WARNING: DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 'R XMAS!]
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155932
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...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
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155831
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The poppers, the Viagra, the chorizo – all had been ordered and all had arrived.
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155821
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Sure my man. Show me the token I’ll show you the slice.
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155897
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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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155895
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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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155863
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rockstar, moviestar, literary supernova – burning out before all the planets are declassified.
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155822
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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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155898
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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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155851
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He was choking on the fumes.
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1558117
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I saw it coming from five feet
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155884
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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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1558114
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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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155867
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Except where its waves break gently,/
white frothed and reassuring along the shore,
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155831
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Warning: Open and read before making any dumb-ass New Year's resolutions.
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155753
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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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155721
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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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155765
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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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155741
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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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15571612
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She was as beautiful as flowers in a dream
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155710
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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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155730
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15571310
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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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155700
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There was all this pomp and circumstance. We were each outfitted with robes, red of course, and mortar-boards with a gold tassel dangling over one eye. It made me positively dizzy. Plus I was extremely hung-over that day.
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1557115
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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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155752
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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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155655
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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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155696
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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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