1548 10 4
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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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154899
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I’m from the Land of Sky Blue Waters. I grew up in a lake. I think I’m half fish.
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154877
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154831
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My mind raced at the endless possibilities one could die while driving to get a pizza.
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1547710
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From room to room, neither closet nor drawer contained any remnant of pleasant memory.
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1547104
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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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15471410
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The knees remind you: you are old,/
and broken, and unlikely to improve
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154787
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I supposed reluctantly that Princeton is soft as Macalester College is soft. A person could die just for having attended U.W.-Madison or Yale.
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154700
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The Kid, The Executive, The Doctor, and The Actress.
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154722
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Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.
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154798
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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"
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15472412
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One can watch the grass green/
in response. One can watch the world green/
in response.
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154741
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Just beyond the tree, beyond the fence, close to the grey clouds that hung almost to the earth, a boy sat on another tree's stump. Beneath his crossed legs that he moved up and down rhythmically, under his bright red, Superman shorts, inscribed in the stump, a symbol which…
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1547108
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154765
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Remember when we went to New York to take our test? We looked for cheap hotels near the test site, and there was the "Hotel Earle." Twelve bucks a night. The clerk behind bullet-proof glass, smiling a knowing smile. Pubes still on the sheets, but we couldn't sleep anyway,…
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154731
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When our body falters, deny us rest.
When our minds crack under the strain, forbid us sanity.
When we are too tired to fight give us war.
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154785
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154731
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The blackout lasted longer than anyone thought. From my fifth story window, the whole city seemed to shut down. I heard noises above me. How could it be?
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154685
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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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154640
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After sportscasters announced the assassination and while the reverberations of the words were still fading people were already shouting
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154687
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First he wrote it in wet cement at the intersection:
“Tad Loves Kimberley,”
with a big heart around it.
He was real proud, you could see.
But then later on that year, the graffiti began
appearing everywhere, on all the store walls:
“Kimberle
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154665
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faith in gravity/permitted them to extol/the guillotine's blade.
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154641
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At a rest stop in Montpelier, they stopped to buy Cokes and gum from the vending machines. He was showing off, trying to jimmy one of the locks with a safety pin but it stayed locked and she laughed at him and he said goddamn, look at all a them Milkyways
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154684
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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.
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154633
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When John wakes up, the first thing he does is run a bath, because his shower is broken, and while the bath is running he gets his breakfast ready.
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154633
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Tell me everything about yourself, if I could care, I can pretend, let me pretend.
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154643
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. . . the empiricism of the mechanical had wound tight into her, lessons her few calendars could never impart without aid from sundials, hourglasses, clocks.
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154650
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I made her a mix tape. It was revolutionary. Twenty-two songs she had to hear at least once in her life. I even drew some trippy drug-like designs on the label of the CD to make it seem more real. It was the ocean and the sun and every body of land balled up…
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154621
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Are you a hostile person who gets into trouble when you express your anger? Would you like to annoy the hell out of people and get away with it?
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154651
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Juan’s tío, Richard, who works for the city and is the kind of Mexican who thinks he isn’t, took care of the lawyer. Juan checks himself in the mirror, didn’t know how good dressing fancy would feel.
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