1554 6 5
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What a nation!
First we lost our money
Now we’ve lost our funny
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15542114
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I don't believe in symbols
but there's a hole
in my living room window
in the shape of a bird
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1554158
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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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15541511
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Early Spring, 1075, Northumbria: Judith, too ashamed to speak, too angry to cry, waves her handmaiden away. She wants no food. Wind drives icy rain across the thickness of…
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155461
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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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155454
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It was uncomfortable to realize people had agendas. That there could be invisible realities.
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155485
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We will collapse in a storm of images
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155474
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Francesco needed a magnifying glass to read her little missives.
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1553104
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"Middle class workers and working class poor and the unemployed will soon be forming a revolutionary movement to break this stranglehold of corrupt elites."
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155364
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My mother moved her things out of my parents’ bedroom into the attic guest room. When I asked where guests would sleep, my father said, “Matthew, don’t be an asshole.”
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155322
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Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.
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155377
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To tell the truth, I can’t complain. Look, lots of people have it tough. I don’t have it tough...
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15532412
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One can watch the grass green/
in response. One can watch the world green/
in response.
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155332
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Instead, I get things like,
“Why can’t you find a nice man with cancer or a bum leg?”
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1553104
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feet that would run until their soles were pages of Gideon’s Bibles, worn too thin to touch
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155364
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"You'll be alright! Just pinch your nose!"
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1553157
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Mark Reep is a faded Polaroid oracle taped to the only unbroken window of an abandoned house in Ithaca NY.
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155300
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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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1553105
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addict for validation and cat tongues
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1552114
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He is leaning back against a pillar watching the dancing; a spectator to joy – both planned and spontaneous – that’s unfolding in bodies fourteen and fifteen years old in front of him.
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155233
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155285
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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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155220
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A university student who triggers a flash mob in the heart of Silicon Valley to prove her hacking creds finds herself in deep trouble when the colorful members of Anonymous Hackers prove their hacking creds to her.
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1552143
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Of all the authors in the library, it was a wife from Maryland who called out from her marriage dormer I was not to read her.
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155298
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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"
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155233
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Tell me everything about yourself, if I could care, I can pretend, let me pretend.
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155243
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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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155200
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I'm a jogger of these parts, but I've yet to discover a dead body, or even dead body parts, or worse yet, discover that my parts will be discovered by some unfortunate jogger.
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155233
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I am speeding on the highway at 2AM because no one is here...
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155220
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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