1550 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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155042
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True facts about Redbeard the communist pirate.
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155020
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You beckon me with an aperitif.
The Kir Royal tingles, its bubbles tickling my nose.
Its subtle black courant pulls me into your smile.
I drink from your lips the champagne-tingle of your kiss.
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155000
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Caster had always imagined the Consensus as a big room, as big as the world, filled with white space and people with quantum wings, flitting about, creating information. There were tinted bubbles for people to share for privacy, and the lights never went
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155021
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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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155020
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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155042
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The following is a true story, or rather it is a true experience from the story of my life. Some say that just because something happens doesn’t really make it “true”.
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155061
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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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154933
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154922
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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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154920
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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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15491210
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1549106
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People Who Go to Poems for Truth
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154977
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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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154943
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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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154900
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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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154932
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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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154965
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What a nation!
First we lost our money
Now we’ve lost our funny
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154900
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He reached into the bag on the table and pulled out a ten inch record, sleeved in brown paper, with a circle cut out to display the label information. He handled it delicately, like a fresh egg.
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154964
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"You'll be alright! Just pinch your nose!"
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1549157
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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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154821
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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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154864
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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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154811
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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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154853
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My Aunt's husband liked to dress up like a clown
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15481110
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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.
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154800
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That Orndoff! I'd like to shove that pipe of his up his arse.
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1548126
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because you pay/
for it to matter to me.
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15482114
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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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1548104
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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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