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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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16382114
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I don't believe in symbols
but there's a hole
in my living room window
in the shape of a bird
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163833
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Or, today, when early summer sweated the long pants off every woman under the age of thirty. Did I notice the way you looked at them for one, two, three seconds; then didn't, partial to short-shorts. It was sly how you kept them in your line of sight, alm
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163844
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unwrapping
the gauze from her wrists....
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163810
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This must never get out in the press, for it would cause widespread panic. The priests would surround my house, not to mention the police and possibly the army. Castor Desayuno has come back from the dead!
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163861
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I do not know what zinzins is, what a zinzins is, who zinzins is.
I do not want to know
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163867
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“Not all the birds are to be trusted, and there are other spies more evil than they are.” —J.R.R.Tolkien This may well be our own about time, time to walk out that comfortable front door forever into danger. Nothing will ever…
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163743
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Write power
like a purring kitten
eyes wide
without an idea of exactly
how small he is.
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163774
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They found it naught however as it was lost at metro stops, canceled appointments and in ever dimming light that failed to reflect what was instead of what could have been.
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163720
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The location : Vic's Seedy Space Bar. No, that's not just a description, that's the real name.
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163765
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I dragged you that last half mile Me such a slip of a thing, one bite mark visible You the bear, your growl now only audible When you furred from kerb to road to kerb The December snow followed us Dragging Christmas red behind you As I ignored my…
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163744
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My flash kept going off. The museum officials are strict about such matters. Sans flash! Sans flash, Monsieur!
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163700
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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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163711
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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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163700
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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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163654
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Facebook just hit me with an ad for coping with memory loss, probably because I just turned 63. As far as my favorite social media site is concerned, I am now an Old Lady. When I asked my Facebook pals who are also Seniors what kind of promotions have been turning up…
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1636104
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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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163673
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I did do one nice thing for you
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163697
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163600
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Since when has it become a crime to walk about a neighbourhood? No one will ever convince me that it 's okay to follow, harass, or approach any unarmed person with a gun and shoot them.
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163631
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Nothing is ever hoarded in our house, everything is eaten.
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163634
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What I Love About HistoryMy roommate, Cara, wears all black, which she thinks scares me. I've never bothered to tell her I wore all black for two years, eighth and ninth grade, and I'm just over it, not that I think she's lame or passé, but there's nothing remotely…
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163653
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I sat at the kitchen counter, aware of a heaviness, a numbness, in my flesh, my bones, my mind. My dancer's body -- short, trim and 108 pounds -- felt as huge and unmoving as the…
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163582
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Marge bought the rug on-line.
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163584
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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.
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163574
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we're not at war / with the world. We have papers.
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1635266
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Closed gate without fences
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163562
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It was only two days before Christmas. Jonathan remembered his mother crying.
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With a roar and short burst of flame, the dragon awoke, startled.
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