1424 9 4
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When it starts looking bad enough, I bundle up and head out the door.
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142499
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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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142464
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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror
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142431
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Warning: Open and read before making any dumb-ass New Year's resolutions.
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142465
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Q: What's the best song to sing to your doc before cataract surgery?
A: I Only Have Eyes For You
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142434
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They were just boys, the Nazis I mean, young in their twenties, not much older than my brother Cyril.
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142344
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The man wore a bowler hat and stood on an open patch of grass, with a pyramid-shaped stack of baseballs at his feet.
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142352
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I am not covetous for catnip,
Nor care where I sleep at night.
It irks me not who takes my
Favorite chair, or swats me off a table.
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142321
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...I am taut...my ankles ache...
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1423116
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Even in the fading light, it looked big enough to disembowel a man.
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142300
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Mint upon my palate, I rub sleep infused eyes and crawl under the covers. Oh blessed sleep, please descend upon this body and transverse this fatigue. Eyes closed, bring a wavering blackness upon subtle lids. The conversation begins…
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142320
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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1423147
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Follow the money. It seeks/
the lowest of the low and finds them here/
in an embarrassing abundance.
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142344
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It was one of those weekday mornings in early spring when Marjorie and I could wander from chapel to chapter house with only security guards for company.
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142320
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perhaps because they were holding hands and sharing tears; perhaps because the moon shone so brightly; perhaps for no reason at all; but both the Coriander and Isabella felt a surge of hope so strongly that both smiled a genuine smile.
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142377
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You think I don't know, that's your whole stupid problem. You don't believe in anyone. You must enjoy living in a dark lonely universe. I don't know if you know or not about the lights that live in your own head, but I believe …
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1423139
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I. he leans his messy head against the walland contemplates his wild mistakeshe discovers a nest of red spidersoutside his rotting basement doorhe watches television in his socksand…
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142377
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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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142386
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If I seemed disappointed after our conversation,
then, for the record, that was never the case.
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142356
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IN nature, it's hard to find a straight line. Stand on a beach. Look out to sea. There out far you might think you see a line where the sky comes down to join. Where two fields of blue meet. But where you're not quite sure for the line is a blur there. You…
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142375
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Nine sated elephants and an ass sit around a decimated Thanksgiving table discussing the state of the union over the hacked to bits carcass of a twenty-three pound turkey. Two years in to The Great Communicator's Lame Duck term and the nine elephants, whose…
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142241
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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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142200
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Azure was overwhelmed by white everywhere. Her eyes lost focus when she looked at the colors of Miri’s outfit, even her clothes.
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142274
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An old man in overalls with rags on his head known locally as Bo Peep made his way up from the black side of town to the white. After listening for a few moments, he shook his head in disgust. “Boy, you can’t play them blues.”
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142244
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Originally designed for para-morticians and pre-professional undertakers, the Protocol has now been certified and approved for over-the-counter purchase and is completely safe (check local regulations for sales to minors: not approved for veterinary use).
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142276
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Anyone thinking they aren’t alone on life’s journey has their head up their ass.
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142223
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One of the publishing industry’s dirty little secrets is that first novels sell much better than second novels. So why not enhance your chances for success by calling your second novel your first?
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142242
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eleven seconds of infamy / brought to you by Glenfidditch /who the hell filmed this?
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14221814
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The phone rings. The oven beeps./
The locomotive whistles and howls.
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