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Nothing is ever hoarded in our house, everything is eaten.
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160752
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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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160700
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Part of me feels like a wounded animal surrounded by hungry cougars. Another part of me feels like being mauled by a cougar might not be that bad. A third part of me wishes he could punch the second part of me in the face.
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160786
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If I seemed disappointed after our conversation,
then, for the record, that was never the case.
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16071312
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We discussed the epic poems/
and agreed to write a new one.
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16061212
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Not only half-full/
but stress-fractured
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160622
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No one had told the newer tenants that the dead would be given votes, and they were in an uproar: it wasn’t legal; it wasn’t fair; it was creepy.
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160600
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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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160694
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The man's dog slipped away one night. He left soon after.
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160631
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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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160600
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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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160610
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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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160620
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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160654
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we gave divided houses / child stand up anyway
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16061814
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The phone rings. The oven beeps./
The locomotive whistles and howls.
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160643
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A story about convincing people to do things they don't want to do, written entirely in dialogue; originally published by CHEAP POP.
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160676
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will we begin again?We are a wheelFirst touchfirst kissfirst heatThey fade, disappear, come back again.Spokes in our wheel.When again shall we begin again?I hold you and feel myself spincaught in the whirlwind of thrill -the world, saturated with your scent.We hold each…
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160600
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They were working on the factory floor when they died, the auspices of mayhem filtering out to a host of ravens gleaning the neighboring fields. Clouds of them fled the scene around the time of the incident turning the day into twilight…
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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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160532
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it's the constant reminders of something that was never a constant remind her but i suppose there is no ticking clock on that which is wondrous and it was right right it's hard to come up with cleverly phrased universal truths and it's hard to make…
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160532
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"Why, before the summer has passed
You won’t remember her name. . ."
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1605106
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People Who Go to Poems for Truth
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160586
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You left for the glittery wild of West Hollywood. I guess L.A.'s off-limits now. My heart goes fucking tachy when I drive over Kellogg Hill past Forest Lawn and see the skyline glowing through the rainbow haze of sunset. You're out there, out in the…
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160500
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Street by street, non-combatants ran away. Each one passed by the Society and law enforcement screaming.
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160595
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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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What follows is an interview George Bush gave to Barbara Walters in 2006. He came off like something out of a swamp. Dick Cheney made them deep-six the tapes and we never saw it on prime time. I got the transcript, however,…
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160581
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The thing Bentley remembered most about her was she had no body odor. None.
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under your skin the moon is alive
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because you pay/
for it to matter to me.
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