1642 5 4
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we gave divided houses / child stand up anyway
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16421814
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The phone rings. The oven beeps./
The locomotive whistles and howls.
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164240
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The way each intersection in a city where you’ve lived a while becomes layered with personal archeology.
The cafe that replaced a liquor store you avoided, and the friend (or lover) you broke up with there,
and the way on the day of the big fire you
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164221
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Well, yeah but no one that wasn't pointing a gun at me, mostly. I shot at a lot of people but there were only three times when I can honestly say I know that I blew someone away.
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164211
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children love to push the gas up and down my limbs
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1642105
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addict for validation and cat tongues
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1641103
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Palms planted firmly against his temples, Travis paced the room like a caged animal. Giant black bats screeched in his brain, their pointy wings scraping at the edges of his cranium.
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164165
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I stole forth dimly in the dripping pause
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164143
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You think about the first time you saw an axe
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164153
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under your skin the moon is alive
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164122
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Beautiful boy! I am doomed / to have attended your presence; / time consumes us, but you / have changed so little...
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1641106
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164166
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It's really not too bad. The personI am was me. We laughed insidethose sacred places at all the monieswell spent. We walked in the gardenswithout any shoes on. Not one singleflower seemed to mind. And now it'sa forgotten mess or so I've imagined.I'd rather you think about…
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1641158
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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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164087
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Study decay, says the Queen of the Underground.
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164032
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"Why, before the summer has passed
You won’t remember her name. . ."
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164010
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Row,
Caps of white,
A salted escape
beneath reflected light.
Brother, remember those old lies?
I’m off to sea to make those things right,
now.
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164000
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Welcome to the genocide city zone I'm sure you'll enjoy your stay We've been killing folks here All the live-long day If you want to join us You'll have to pay the price Your soul's the cost, so ante up C'mon and shoot the dice Welcome to the genocide city zone …
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164010
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Read signs sometimes and you just might get where you're trying to go. When Eddie suggested they stop for a Whopper, Dennis said no. "Fuck Burger King, man. Let's get that Wendy's up there." They got…
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164030
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Theresa Esposito woke to the smell of pignoli cookies baking. The sweet scent made her stomach rumble. She was ten-years-old today. And she felt ten. Her hair, her ears, her eyes, her toes — everything felt ten.
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164055
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We pull up chairs. I breathe in her Bath and Body Works vanilla, read her paper slowly and aloud because the ears catch what the eyes miss. Her sentences are awkward, stilted.
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164000
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Even if you're doing it together, there's no unity when everyone's dancing to their own tune.
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1640149
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everything moved in circles
like the music, the booze and the drugs
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164085
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We will collapse in a storm of images
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164032
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The combined smells of ocean breeze, grilled cheese sandwiches, incense and sweat and burning herb that wafted over from Shakedown, along with windblown notes from tinny car speakers all rolled into a potent sensory cocktail he hadn’t tasted in far too l
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163965
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His looks were polished like his shoes, his hair as black. No one would have guessed he made his living as a thief.
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163952
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I walk through nameless
streets, narrow and winding,
past shops selling scarves,
spices, skins.
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163900
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"Nothingness had had enough. Nothingness had become militant. It had bought a camouflage jacket. It grew an afro. It burned its bra. Nothingness was pissed, and it wanted its stuff back."
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163920
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The sighs of the nearby shore came to me through an open window.Wave after gentle wave caressed her broad, sand crusted skin. Mesmerized, I lay still.The in out sound of breathing now filled the room.Your warmth enveloping me like the satin…
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163910
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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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