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What a nation!
First we lost our money
Now we’ve lost our funny
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15521511
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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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155230
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Blend the dog a drink and sit down beside him and draw straws for regrets.
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155261
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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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155231
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"seventy five degrees longitude
submerged
in holy rivers
out of my mind emerge
anointed paramahamsas"
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155254
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It was uncomfortable to realize people had agendas. That there could be invisible realities.
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155122
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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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155120
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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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155185
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It's all over now, Baby Blue...
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155152
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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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155142
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True facts about Redbeard the communist pirate.
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1551106
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People Who Go to Poems for Truth
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155122
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Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.
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155198
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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"
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155177
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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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155143
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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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155111
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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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155121
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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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155120
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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15512114
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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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155164
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"You'll be alright! Just pinch your nose!"
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155100
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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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155085
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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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15502112
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He would not take Prozac and talked Jesus to her as if from a bucket.
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155064
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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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1550143
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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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155032
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I could smell a bold combination of cheap perfume, stale smoke, and sex excreting from her weathered pores. The bus engine hummed as we climbed a winding road. She scratched her neck and tried to finger comb through her knotted hair. I caught a glimpse of
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155020
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Some people hate Waikiki. Not me. Most hotels had lounges with live music, either inside or around the pool. Evenings were spent bar hopping up and down the strip, Kalakaua Avenue. The bars stayed open till 4:00 a.m. It was safe to walk…
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155033
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Tell me everything about yourself, if I could care, I can pretend, let me pretend.
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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.
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