1451 8 5
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Both men sip their Cabernet Franc.
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145184
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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.
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145111
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145100
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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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145198
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They articulate my failings as a human being./
They articulate my greater rage at human beings//
here for such a short time and at the precipice already
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145142
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eleven seconds of infamy / brought to you by Glenfidditch /who the hell filmed this?
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145122
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I have reasons to believe she’s been stealing.“
“Stealing what?”
“Steaks.”
“Steaks?”
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145164
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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror
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145185
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My grandmother is magnificently breasted in her floor-length nightgown.
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145187
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How many shadows in your soul? Close your eyes, my love, let me / make you blind as the wings of a drenched, drowned bee.
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1451139
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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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145100
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So this is what hate feels like. I glare at her, across the room standing there with him. Tall, blond, slender, perfect complexion, adorable smile, and bright eyes; and him and his lean athletic build, soft square jawline, charming smile, deep blue gree
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145197
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Never mind that they cost millions per year just to amuse the monkey bone in us all or that they spew pollution or that their only real purpose is murder. They are justified by skill and thrill.
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145011
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This is 57% of middle America, I'm convinced: doomed.
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1450108
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In a dream, he’s covered in masticated bits of paint and canvas and metal shavings and it keeps raining down until he’s buried and he wakes up with a yell.
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145044
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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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145011
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It was two days to town. His horse could only go one.
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145022
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Her memory was a faded pastiche of the past, and indeed the present sat uneasily in the middle of the dreams that governed her mind; so it was that often she would forget the day, the time, the year.
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145000
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The Kid, The Executive, The Doctor, and The Actress.
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145012
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May 1890 Rifle, COLORADO Only pressure can change one thing into another. In terms of time, the…
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145085
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What fascinates me now is now, this instant, this moment. This fugitive, this delinquent, this indiscreet, this forever elusive now. Now now. Now is now and now it is not now. Now is the adversary of time.…
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14501111
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Why do people kill themselves with food? It’s obvious, I suppose. They’re hungry.
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145042
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Frank shouldered his backpack, grabbed the leather satchel packed with his brushes, palette knives, pens, and pencils, and exited the vaporetto at the Rialto Bridge.
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145033
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sometimes i have to be in the other room
just so i can breathe easy away from you.
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144953
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The tax man he is coming
But I got me no dough
Been looking for some new job
That’s going really slow
I bought a lottery ticket
But dropped it down the well
I went to see the psychic
She said I’d go to hell
Can’t cope, I just can’t cope
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144932
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—So much for a cocktail at the tender hour of twilight, he told the empty beer bottle.
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144932
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The daily slog on public transit is a battlefield. Tensions are often higher than a presidential debate, but throw a wrench into the gears (or a tree branch onto the tracks) with any “severe delay,” and add in one or more of the below faux pas, and we’re
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144952
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I walk through nameless
streets, narrow and winding,
past shops selling scarves,
spices, skins.
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144921
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I ran for the car, heart pounding in my chest, feverish. I jerked the door open and dropped into the seat of the Audi S5. The ignition fired and the car purred to life. I dropped it into gear and hit the gas, tires spinning, gravel spraying. The treads caught on the hot …
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144955
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i am either lacerated /or ill at ease / continually subject to gusts of life
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