1561 5 3
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156100
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This is the most frustrating kind of amnesia.
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156121
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It was all things considered a particularly odd sight, which Annalise did not know how to handle.
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156111
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Brian had spent the morning filling out applications all over Knox County, and by noon he was more than ready to call it a day. But apparently there was one last squirt of virtue in him, because heading home he saw a Help…
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156175
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One day it was boring / to be alive.
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156000
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The sun was at the edge of the earth. The shadows around Ayane and her friends brought the creature closer.
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1560266
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Closed gate without fences
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156062
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It was only two days before Christmas. Jonathan remembered his mother crying.
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156074
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I don’t know what to do with all this money flowing from my books.
It’s burning a hole in my literary pocket.
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156065
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Santa’s stuck/you say? In the chimney of course./The lard-arsed ol’bastard struggling
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156021
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There is truth you can’t escape or say any other way and expect it still to be truth.
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156085
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I dreamt once
a child’s drawing of a house
all scribbly black crayon
swayback roof crooked
chimney. God, do you
remember how cold it was
that night?
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156044
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I assume the shape of a pronoun.
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15602714
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Its intelligence won’t be/
diminished when you take/
a bone saw to its cranium
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156077
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A new philosophy stirs in its surgery.
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156067
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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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15601312
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We discussed the epic poems/
and agreed to write a new one.
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156032
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My twin sister Ilene has recently taken up with a man named “Darrell,” who is a member of the Shriner's Fun Korps, a motorized paramilitary group.
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155932
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Remembering Ginsberg
who howled through just about everybody's idea of the real weirdo poet
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15591212
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Not only half-full/
but stress-fractured
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155910
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We're doomed as a species. The Zorks are coming to eat us. It all started when Joey Cacciatore, the dumbest crook in the history of the world, got Veetzers swarming like blowflies in 1972, and thereby ensured the upcoming…
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155952
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jaws blossoming with drool,/ a captured wolf slinks low/ across the crowded land/ for that most tender lamb/ to catch it by surprise.
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155900
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"You look awfully familiar," said one of the corrupt oil company execs to the dark-haired man with the sunglasses and big sideburns.
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155943
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We all need a place to stay.
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155921
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The man was happy, filled with it, the happiest he had ever been. He was so happy that he felt he did not deserve it and he deflated.
A woman with apples for shoulders and an eep for a laugh told him that he did deserve to be happy and the man thought
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155954
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I found the hand eight months ago, after I planned to grow a meadow of tiny yellow blossoms in my yard.
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155900
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Her shoes, left uninhibited below, seem sad but understanding, and she is so in love with something, which makes me so in love with the idea of her.
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155921
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Ben was in no mood for games. His ribs hurt and his eye was painful. He would have to tell this girl, who had flicked her tongue in his ear and who did not sound like Sophie, to get lost
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155940
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The way each intersection in a city where you’ve lived a while becomes layered with personal archeology.
The cafe that replaced a liquor store you avoided, and the friend (or lover) you broke up with there,
and the way on the day of the big fire you
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155931
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On the news they said that there was a baby born in a stable. There are rumours that he may be the son of God but initial reports are unconfirmed.
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