1398 8 5
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Today clouds were dancing on the moon
Moon had a fit but drew in a breath
And let out a sigh
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139854
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The war they wage fills everything with holes.
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139822
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Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.
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139841
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Joe Don followed the route taken by an increasing number of Texas teenage jocks whose football glory days are prematurely cut short and joined his high school's Cowboy Poet Squad.
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139871
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Things don't always go to plan. Gem knew what people would have said back then, of course. She wasn't stupid.
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139800
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Was he really a Secret Service guy? No time to think now! Quick as lightning, Rachel bounded over the sleeping matron and sprinted up the aisle.
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139872
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This is what it is to feel yourself forget.
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139830
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…she smelled of sunflowers.
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1398113
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Ego bereft of consistency Betrays a heart hungering to toll. Unable to trust its will Or harbor imaginary gods, It gains a hold melding into a role whose proven viability Can give convincing cover To buy time to fabricate An identity that feels unique, Yet…
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139843
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addict for validation and cat tongues
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139800
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We were a perfect match of broken pieces of flesh and cobalt. We moved in waves of couch plastic crinkling and clicking.
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139764
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We became The World Famous Shadow Puppet Theater because we thought that the best way to become world famous was to act as though we already were.
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139721
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The elders of the town will tell you that as soon the prophet mill arrived everything went to Hell. Before the process was streamlined, prophets used to be grown organically in the community. They popped up only where the ground was tilled and a prayer was planted. They…
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139732
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Somniloquies rise like the drowned . . .
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139751
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Nicole knows that Deirdre is winding up for the weekly pitch, practicing the line in her mind.
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1397115
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I enjoyed the talking part though
rambling on and on for lord knows
why or how
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139753
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The skinny one was kinda cute. He had this little mole over the left corner of his mouth that she just wanted to suck. She kept watching it go up and down as he talked, the way his full lips kept spreading and coming together. She really wanted to kiss…
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139732
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“Hi. I’m Rita Bates,” I had said. “Can I sit here?
The boy who introduced himself as Thomas told me I could, so I did, and his friends all introduced themselves in turn. Around the table there was Bev, Ernest, someone whose name started with an F – maybe
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She liked talking to him, even now, when they’d spent three years talking. She thought about other conversations with other men at other bars, some of the bars on the water and some of them tucked behind shopping centers or off of different h
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139721
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Mutiny is the last I remember.
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139776
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"I'm in a wrestling movie!" you shouted.
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139756
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Wearing Land’s End clothes at life’s end
Driving around in circles in your Codgermobile
with 3 good hubcaps.
Who wouldn’t want to steal that?
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139772
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My vagina invites you to a party
Whenever your time frees up
Or now,
Now would be better
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139776
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I keep attempting to start a correspondence with people / but they end up not being interested in me, / either that or I scare them away / because I usually begin with: / “Well, my favorite philosopher is Hegel..."
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139733
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Much as the cockerel crows the break of day/ So, too, has our love similar herald,
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139700
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Jean-Pierre and Azure watched the security guards running around the building yelling, and Jane grabbed Azure’s arm while holding the radio.
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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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