1552 3 3
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There's a large tunnel that runs under my house. I can only estimate but it's not deep below the ground and that's what worries me.
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1552 2 2
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Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.
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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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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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I am speeding on the highway at 2AM because no one is here...
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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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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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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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"You'll be alright! Just pinch your nose!"
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"seventy five degrees longitude
submerged
in holy rivers
out of my mind emerge
anointed paramahamsas"
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It was uncomfortable to realize people had agendas. That there could be invisible realities.
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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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1551 2 0
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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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It's all over now, Baby Blue...
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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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1551 5 2
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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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1551 4 2
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True facts about Redbeard the communist pirate.
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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"
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1551 0 0
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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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Route 346 is the way Pop drove to Troy long after everybody else took Route 2. Today Charlie and I drive in the opposite direction. Back then, Pop drove us to Troy on Route 346 on Sunday afternoons with the car windows…
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1551 5 3
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My Aunt's husband liked to dress up like a clown
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1551 2 1
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...She smells like Mentholadium all the time which is one of them old lady smells. When I get up there, she says, “I’ll scrub the bee jesus out of you little girl,” and by God, I have a purty good bath that day.
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1551 2 0
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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“Life is on life’s terms,” she told me once. Her arm, wrapped in clear cellophane, was freshly adorned with a green-pigmented sand-dollar: a living shell.
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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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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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"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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He would not take Prozac and talked Jesus to her as if from a bucket.
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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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