1596 14 9
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everything moved in circles
like the music, the booze and the drugs
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159684
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The coal carts come and go like the seasons, never stopping.
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1596105
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addict for validation and cat tongues
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159554
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Cornelius van Linjpleel discovered and excavated for himself a lone Etruscan tomb not far from Populonia in 1898.
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159532
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Somniloquies rise like the drowned . . .
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159564
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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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159585
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It's all over now, Baby Blue...
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159597
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After lunch I left my office and trickled along like a slow leak, a notch above meandering; gravity had become a lateral force that pulled me forward.
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159522
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From my place, down here amongst the earth, we have many names for you.
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159511
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Margie sprayed the gift with her most expensive perfume and tucked it into her sweater’s front pocket. This way she could hold it close to her on the subway, so no one would see the pretty wrapping and try to snatch it from her
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159521
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Sure my man. Show me the token I’ll show you the slice.
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159522
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Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.
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159510
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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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1595129
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anxiety
said Kierkegaard
is the dizziness
of freedom
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159543
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Until the ivy hides me in
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15951410
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A woman posted a story on Fictionaut about discovering that her husband was a werewolf.
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159553
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159530
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159400
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“Yo, Paciorek. Lend me your DNA, cuz I left mine on the farm, and I have a test tomorrow,” Feller ordered in a commanding voice, because he had gumption.
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159421
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Winter makes me reconsider.
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159421
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On the other pillow is a ladybird which escaped from a dream. It reminds me of when I was a tiny red polka dot. And then bigger, and other colours. And then… I stare at the ceiling, searching its soul for little things. The ladybird touches my arm, whispers…
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159431
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"do you know what your problem is when it comes to girls?"
she must mean other than the fact that they're all
completely insane. or at least all the ones i've dated.
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159410
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No matter how much he composes and prepares, he cannot override the electrical trigger in his brain. Something to do with the resonance of physical memory. It remembers amplitudes of current.
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15941411
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chains across all the old doors
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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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I’m decades in and it hasn’t gone away.
In all other respects, I am normal. Life
is hard, but I’m not complaining. The thing
is, I am in a constant state of falling.
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Jesus is for sale. But he’s heavy.
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—Mazel tov, schmazel tov!
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Everybody breaks.
Everything splinters.
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159310
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We're doomed as a species. The Zorks are coming to eat us. It all started when Joey Cacciatore, the dumbest crook in the history of the world, got Veetzers swarming like blowflies in 1972, and thereby ensured the upcoming…
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