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The one thing I believe in is collapse./
Abandoned buildings collapse. Civilizations//
collapse. Financial bubbles collapse./
Stars and galaxies collapse. Falling//
is something that comes quite naturally/
to puffed up things.
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1502116
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The question isn't whether we will survive-/
like rats, we are supremely adaptive-//
but whether we should survive.
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150277
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And a delicacy
in the right regrets.
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1501116
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Is this a place to show posterity and mortality?
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150100
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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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150154
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This is why the earth revolves around the sun: refrigerator magnets.
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150100
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He reached into the bag on the table and pulled out a ten inch record, sleeved in brown paper, with a circle cut out to display the label information. He handled it delicately, like a fresh egg.
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150143
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Auto and the Grease-Pits
Sugar Cube
Full Frontal
The Holy Grill
Crazy Al and the Squirrels
Talk Is Cheap
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Cold Zippers
Destiny Howl
Epiphany Critter
Cold Kneecaps
Crepes
Pulled Pork
Baby Seals and the Club
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150166
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I sneak glances of her unhooking the clasp, taking it off, so that her back is bare, and I can see the muscles, the bones underneath move as she puts the new one on...
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150162
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The goose on the roof isn’t aware it is doing anything odd...
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150131
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Your Uncle Howard and I listened to Dutch Reagan re broadcast big league baseball on WHO Radio when we were little. He'd call the play action off the wire complete with sound effects. The son of a bitch turned out to be a Republican...
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150165
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Infinity occurs as an afterthought, for discoverers like Columbus as for countries like America.
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150186
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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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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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150022
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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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1500105
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Two types coexist- the sanguine/
and exsanguinated./
My skin is cool/
and pale as moonlight
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1500119
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The universe extracts no retribution./
It annihilates without a thought/
of evil/good, sin/virtue.
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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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150054
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The Zone is a garden of skyscrapers. Every building is a model.
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1500116
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Even in the fading light, it looked big enough to disembowel a man.
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150042
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...it's about female needs, Rex.
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150000
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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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150094
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When it starts looking bad enough, I bundle up and head out the door.
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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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150042
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It was hard, in the crowded vacation house,
to make love as they would have alone.
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150042
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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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1500219
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Polite society will cheer/
as another body is discovered//
and disposed of. The cheers/
will drown out the gasps
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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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