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Looming ahead was another polite suburban party at which, after a couple of pops, I'd say something that embarrasses my wife in front of her girlfriends. Or so she claims.
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157043
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Here’s the keys to the house
Here’s the keys to the car
I’m going out and I don’t care
I’m going out to buy a cigar
Don’t bother locking up after I leave
I’m not coming back anymore
I’m going to drink whiskey out of a jar
Go out and buy
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157000
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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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157020
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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1570107
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We are young
That’s all we’ve got
We take drugs
We smoke pot
You got mugged
And I got shot
We are young
That’s all we’ve got
I want you to love me like it’s midnight
Midnight, midnight
Yeah, your mama wants you home
But she knows
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157064
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"You'll be alright! Just pinch your nose!"
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157061
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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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156942
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True facts about Redbeard the communist pirate.
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156921
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156940
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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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1569158
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She is too stylish to be crazy, is what the migrant probably thinks. And he's right.
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156931
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Nothing is ever hoarded in our house, everything is eaten.
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156900
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From Berlin to Arcturus. I squeeze Sevigny’s wrist, wish Izzy could be here, but she’s melting salt in Utah. We were on our way to Los Angeles. I’ve booked the horror room.
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156822
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The man and the woman looked at each other almost shyly. The man flicked his eyes away self-consciously and looked outside, seeing the clouds in the distance, the smaller buildings…
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156810
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“We’re never going to get off the treadmill of paying ever-higher taxes," I said, "unless we get some creative suggestions from a professional bisexual tax advisor.”
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156821
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I ran for the car, heart pounding in my chest, feverish. I jerked the door open and dropped into the seat of the Audi S5. The ignition fired and the car purred to life. I dropped it into gear and hit the gas, tires spinning, gravel spraying. The treads caught on the hot …
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156894
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Later, when she said she'd had miscarriages, I should have put it all together.
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1568148
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Six months later, she was teaching theology / to refugees from est.
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156822
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Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.
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156811
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Her cash. It smelled like seven-dollar-a-quart gardenia perfume and cave aged cheese—like hope overgrown with mildew.
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156875
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TV and power cord valorized in dust,/
wires and digital guts unimpaired, I’d guess . . .
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156888
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My favorite lie is that he'd escaped the South Tower before it collapsed. Smoke inhalation erased his way home. Mine's better than mother's version: a stranger hurled herself onto him. The truth is when they stopped search and rescue, mother told father, Go. Even dead, his…
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156800
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"I want more grandchildren to spoil," the woman said. Will took a swig of beer at such moments. Maxine only answered with “someday” and looked over toward her husband. She knew it was his fault, didn’t really know why, but blamed him anyway.
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156854
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It was uncomfortable to realize people had agendas. That there could be invisible realities.
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156874
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Francesco needed a magnifying glass to read her little missives.
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156754
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Cornelius van Linjpleel discovered and excavated for himself a lone Etruscan tomb not far from Populonia in 1898.
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15671411
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Tender bodies sizzle on the grill.
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15671511
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The universe will fuck you over in the end./
That’s what it does, what it’s good at—
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156754
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I was always bi-polar. I didn’t realize it was a mental illness until my divorce lawyer had the court order a psychiatric analysis.
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156700
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The Kid, The Executive, The Doctor, and The Actress.
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