1658 3 2
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...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
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1657 5 4
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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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1657 6 4
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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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1657 4 3
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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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1657 9 5
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I fear my personal information travels the World Wide Web/
and mad Ukrainians will steal my name and wealth./
I fear the fiscal cliff and raising the ceiling on national debt./
I fear a death by taxes.
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1657 2 1
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It is like truth on the battle field. Muted
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1657 3 0
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my molars are dancing, tekka-tekking to the strung-out paint can groove of my heart.
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1657 15 8
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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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1657 0 0
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I was looking for an inn to get a cup of calf soup before jacking ribs at the mutton joint. Feng calls, running numbers on an engine zone out in the valley.
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1657 7 7
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They say that inside the veins of every Bohemian
lies an entire army of dead alcoholics.
I suppose this is true of me too.
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1657 5 3
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1657 3 1
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Your favorite nickname
existed only in the bright red
cherry smoldering
at the end of your smoke.
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1656 4 1
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Pinnacles
State Park
lying on our backs
stoned on hash
around a campfire
looking up at the
clear see-through
blue green stars
to the other side
of the universe
I know now
you are out there
I float up to
within 2
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1656 3 0
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I see ghosts. They accost me in their sleep. Hundreds of them. When I wake up (after a long night of half-waking), I think, What wold ghosts want with me? I have nothing for them. But at night they're there again, watching, tapping my shoulder as I lay awake. Sometime…
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1656 9 8
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drunkards indulge, addicts abuse
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1656 9 8
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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"
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1656 5 3
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The arrangements of lights on the cracking towers are a segment of Orion’s belt, the handle of the Big Dipper and a section of Andromeda’s spine.
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1656 9 8
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On my twenty-second birthday, in the spring of 1979, I had a crawfish boil, my first. Ninety pounds of red mudbugs on a picnic table spread with newspaper, my birthday cake sitting at the end of the table like an afterthought.I hadn't…
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1656 18 14
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The phone rings. The oven beeps./
The locomotive whistles and howls.
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1656 14 11
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chains across all the old doors
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1656 5 5
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1656 16 10
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They teach that emotional pain is physical pain, culture pain is science pain, but they cannot test for the absence of these synaptic conclusions. I will say, if you can test me and find something missing then you can supplement me for the missing thing.
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1656 13 12
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Forty years later he was still her Romeo, she his Juliet.
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1656 3 0
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1655 11 4
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He is leaning back against a pillar watching the dancing; a spectator to joy – both planned and spontaneous – that’s unfolding in bodies fourteen and fifteen years old in front of him.
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1655 8 7
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there’s more to life than poontang
but not when you’re sixteen and
your hands are full of heavy breasts
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1655 8 5
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Snipers wear camouflage clothing to avoid being seen. It wouldn’t do for a sniper to be seen because then the sniper might become the snipee.
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1655 6 4
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It was entirely my fault, misreading signals. I have a clumsy imagination, mistook your gushing about my boobs as a soul connection. Then you said something about us being lovers in a past life, and I remembered Bobby Bubion from high school, his strategy for…
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1655 3 2
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"Why, before the summer has passed
You won’t remember her name. . ."
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