1429 5 4
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It was uncomfortable to realize people had agendas. That there could be invisible realities.
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1429105
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addict for validation and cat tongues
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142965
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Infinity occurs as an afterthought, for discoverers like Columbus as for countries like America.
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142832
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Remembering Ginsberg
who howled through just about everybody's idea of the real weirdo poet
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14281210
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14282014
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I become the accumulation/
of appetites
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142885
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—Mazel tov, schmazel tov!
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142800
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Captain Zeep came to Earth at last century's end to help pave the way for a Zorkian takeover by 2012 at the latest. Key to the game plan: Earthlings had to get dumber than eggplants. When George Bush stole the White House, Zeep figured, Bingo, dumb…
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142822
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Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.
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142843
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“106 more miles,” she said.
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142800
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Detective-Sergeant Claude Mulvihill was seasick. He was in a New York City Harbor Police boat in the East River headed towards the George Washington Bridge. There was a good chop in the harbor, which became worse when the Police Boat reached the Battery.
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142800
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“They’re not gonna shoot him?” Rick cried.
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14281811
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For a few/
vivid weeks, deciduous shrubs and trees/
will seem to glow like flames and embers
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142800
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Warranties are what made America great, although hers has expired and the mailbox will remain empty for another fifteen days.
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142865
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What a nation!
First we lost our money
Now we’ve lost our funny
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142896
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Erased. Like chalk across my body,
a fine powder of forgetfulness,
with a few swipes --- all those names
and faces, gone. The letters burned.
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142832
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They watched the seven o'clock news.
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1428109
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He just up and dropped dead one day, Charles said. Pretty tough on Karen, I opined. Charles looked the other way.
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142842
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You want to get laid talking socks
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142875
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I am no different to her, living seven days ahead
of myself, looking forward to looking back,
as we Irish do so fondly
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142821
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It was all things considered a particularly odd sight, which Annalise did not know how to handle.
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142861
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When the sex that is new and promising in its awkward moments is over, you turn to him. You expect that he’s figuring out a way to leave; the parts of you that know wait for him to stand up and put his clothes back on, quicker and with more eagerness than
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“I’m making a dress,” she said, feeding the pages through the sewing machine.
He didn’t know how to answer. “Are those my books?”
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142753
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Either it was rescue--if the customer was alive to be found--or recovery, the term for bringing out the dead.
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142753
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under your skin the moon is alive
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142754
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If I do not hear you leaving by the door... The nearness here of this yet questions when I know you will not come so back again, Nowise the same as you were there before. My own reflection, centred at its core On knowing each …
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142711
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“It felt like the space under my skin had been filled with desert sand. I did not open my eyes for my body was covered with the dust. A camel could have walked over me and not noticed. I needed to wipe my eyes before I could open them and my body was froz
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142700
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This story is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental and unintentional and should not be inferred. (Really!)
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I asked the hospice nurse about maggots.
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