1594 18 10
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I loved without marriage and the men loved without divorce and we loved a twenty-four-year-old eating and how gracious she shone over a tame bottle of beer.
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159432
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"Why, before the summer has passed
You won’t remember her name. . ."
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1594148
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Six months later, she was teaching theology / to refugees from est.
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159441
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Byron's achievement, certainly quite remarkable, is to have raised the drunken monologue to a literary form.
Edmund Wilson
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159443
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We all need a place to stay.
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159421
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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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159410
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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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159440
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When I heard that my brother was going to get married, I was more surprised than anything, but also awed by his courage. Our sister, named Baah Baah during a particularly bad recreational substance binge by our fun-loving, aristocratic parents, Nancy and
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159433
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ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF ROBOTS!
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15942714
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Its intelligence won’t be/
diminished when you take/
a bone saw to its cranium
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159401
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I followed the curve of the etched Koi, its filigree scales arcing across a taut midriff toward the indent of her pierced navel, where a collection of water lilies drifted on the surface of her skin.
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15941817
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They meant no harm when they flooded farms in its swirls and eddies
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159411
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On that balcony, on every other day, she practised her other, more worldly religion - gardening, specifically sunflowers.
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159410
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Three teeth. You can pick them out if you hit pause just right. Probably not a person in the entire valley who hasn’t seen that video from the Eastern Cheerleading Finals. They even showed the tape on the eleven o’clock news in Scranton, my face ci
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159400
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... and photos of friends from former lives: the Wolfman; Drac; the Mummy; my ungrateful Son; even my gold-digging, coat-tailer ex-wife.
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1594107
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The tech turns off the music. The capsule blares. I am in Jurassic Park with Sam Neill. I am Timmy, descending the electrified fence, almost toast. I am Karen Silkwood, a deer in the headlights, then showering off plutonium. A garbage truck is compacting
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159321
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The supervisor, sensing the fear in me, pats my hand and says "Never you mind! This is normal in the tomato. Every few days we rile up, make sauce, and regrow again. Have you ever been in spaghetti sauce before?"
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159354
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The war they wage fills everything with holes.
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159321
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Forgetting her inhibitions, she dove for him.
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159367
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1. Weeds of the World (Unite!) We invade the invaders and they invade us, these little Blooming weeds. They raise five flowers and let them blow Into the winds like sheets of stars. All of us Steer by their turning tide. All of us will eventually …
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159333
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I contemplate the words that did not make it; the lost ones. The words deprived of their moment in the sun. These words. These words that are not part of the story.
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159300
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A customary phone call from home. What are you doing she says? Playing football I retort – what else. The usual sigh and a faint giggle followed. Much unlike how it backfired back in the late 20’s and we were going to make it the reason to break up! The p
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159343
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The snow buzzes in the Ritalin air beneath Dairy Queen clouds
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159361
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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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159332
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...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
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15921212
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Not only half-full/
but stress-fractured
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159200
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I smoked my cigarro under his watchful eye. We were never able to make too much conversation even when I was teaching him at Educenter. Now that David had opened his own school, Evert had come to learn with him because it was much more affordable, but he
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159200
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“So, do you still think I'm hot? I mean, do you think men still find me attractive?” Jenny asks. This is never a good question to answer, much less entertain. I know this as surely as I know anything. Still, let's break it down. I am married. Jenny is…
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159252
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“I would like to keep my head, at least for a few more nights. Didn't you say we were gonna have sex one of these days? Isn't that in the manual?”
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159231
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"She saw they were absorbed in making faces at each other with a smartphone app that enlarged a mouth."
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