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Infinity occurs as an afterthought, for discoverers like Columbus as for countries like America.
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150033
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150000
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Mayumi and Emi were in the spring’s together, center of the pool at shoulder depth. Emi stood in the center, letting its warm and clean air clear out her thoughts.
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1500135
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1500105
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Two types coexist- the sanguine/
and exsanguinated./
My skin is cool/
and pale as moonlight
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1500116
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Is this a place to show posterity and mortality?
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150041
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Joe Don followed the route taken by an increasing number of Texas teenage jocks whose football glory days are prematurely cut short and joined his high school's Cowboy Poet Squad.
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150000
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Caster had always imagined the Consensus as a big room, as big as the world, filled with white space and people with quantum wings, flitting about, creating information. There were tinted bubbles for people to share for privacy, and the lights never went
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15001213
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No one has touched me for a long, long time and I believe that is why I am dying. This is a notion that is new to me but it has persisted over the last few weeks and I believe I finally have apprehended the truth. There was a time, I remember all too well, when I might…
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150065
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We now live in post-Postmodern Absurdist fear of course, says our smiling Prof. That’s the price we pay he tells us. . . .
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150000
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Even if you're doing it together, there's no unity when everyone's dancing to their own tune.
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150086
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The world is upon us. The only thing that matters Now is if you are willing to be seen by them. Many moths Will be hidden by simply gathering on the bark Of the one tree, but this will not sustain you if you Do not also have the courage…
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150088
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I could hide away in this tower
But I am Rapunzel
And I will let down my hair
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149940
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I had never seen anyone die. For first time in my life, I was afraid, even more than when my step-dad got drunk and roughed me up. When Dale Franklin got shot last year standing on the corner outside the laundry-mat it took the ambulance forty-five minu
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1499119
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The universe extracts no retribution./
It annihilates without a thought/
of evil/good, sin/virtue.
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149940
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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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149954
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The Zone is a garden of skyscrapers. Every building is a model.
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149942
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...it's about female needs, Rex.
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149900
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My tongue kept me from fitting in with the latinos. I understood little Spanish and spoke even less. No one really believed I was Mexican, and they kept me at a distance.
Or maybe I kept them at a distance. Living with
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149942
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It was hard, in the crowded vacation house,
to make love as they would have alone.
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149998
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Years later he surveys this place again to post something, anything. He plays "sex on fire," sounds that once fueled him. Now he knows the song is about VD, not unbridled potency. Names and words all seem at once familiar and numbing and noise. He once wanted fame or…
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1499116
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149942
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Whatever innocence Michelle had brought to the game was long gone, even the part where she dreamed she was the star of a righteous, asskicking movie.
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149955
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Cockroaches in bed was the last straw. Alicia was sure she’d swallowed one in the middle of the night . . .
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149822
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Secretly she suspected she was really a witch. She didn't have green skin or scraggly black hair, and certainly no flying monkeys. Maybe those came over time, the more bad things you did, the more ugly you became until all the world could see how horrible
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149874
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Everybody breaks.
Everything splinters.
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149877
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to have something, but I don't think you need anything from me. There are poems that belong in your hair and no one else's. They should be like stars that only appear every one thousand years or so, then can only be seen when you are…
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1498146
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He hates this body no less now/
than he did at 14 for its pudginess/
and the hair that can’t conform
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14981911
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served as it is/
among these friends.
The frayed filaments/
tickle my chin and irritate my nostrils,
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