1296 17 9
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This will be the century of infinite sadness,/
sadder even than the Twentieth/
with its expansive catalog of horrors.
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129651
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Nicole knows that Deirdre is winding up for the weekly pitch, practicing the line in her mind.
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129686
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It was your present world that seemed more than mad to me. Your polished stiff brown shoes that always squeaked like mice, while the latest rude Bombers bubbled up in their comfortable Dart-board garages like apple pies…
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129632
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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129600
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1. HeWomen's heads turned when Remy stopped in the doorway — as they always did. He noticed — as he always did — but paid no attention as he scanned the room. Too nervy to care. No sign of Fiona. Good. It paid to be the one doing the…
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129644
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On a street-lit night in Jeddah.
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129600
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The streets were filled with animals of the forest. All in a panic trying to find a direction. Mixed among them were members of various Clans that lived in the forest.
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129621
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At eight o' clock: as, drawn by many bells, The patchwork congregation lopes and stalks, To churches far from serenade of shells To storms, we leave behind the windblown walks, And sails of youth, to glide through liquid hells, A temporal…
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129620
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I only knew that my heart was not in my life as I was presently living it. I needed the breasts of my Helen in my mouth forever, or I was going to die. Die! Ah, the life of a poet! I couldn’t go on living like this. Why should I go on living like this?
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129676
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Only blood I got on me was pulling him over onto my seat when I got out.
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129698
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It’s strange, what will become of me
What my life will be like
Since the animal in me
Is beginning to show on my back
Oh no, no, no
Women will never put up with this
I was afraid this would happen
They’ll think I’m only half a man
I’
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129611
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"Yes. It was moving, and not along the ground, either. We were. . . looking toward the cemetery, and the ghost or whatever was clearly visible. . ."
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129696
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...when suddenly I was pushed from behind, smack into the deep end.
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129601
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Is any person is worthy of the kind of ache?
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129632
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Being an uncredited bonus composition, written in the sublimest access of divine afflatus this poet believes his lyric verse has ever known. “In olden times, dark was not counted fair”: Those were the words, I think, of some old poet. …
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129653
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In his dreamlike state the pianist turned into a preying mantis.
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129641
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threads of Cocoa Krispies
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129632
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I didn't feel when you cut out my spine I'd been throwing up all night couldn't even smell the rust …
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129600
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I'm subconsciously a sucker for guys who are no good for my
self-esteem. Or waistline.
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1296108
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I never took more than a few pills at a time, just enough for a treat on Friday night.
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1296138
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The stars align against us. Lines of force/
collaborate to push us off the edge/
into the dark abyss we’ve joked about.
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129522
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We all tell them/even when our mothers
warned us only the Devil/tells stories
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129587
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Study decay, says the Queen of the Underground.
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129531
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I will show you how, in the spring,
the sidewalks here
look like a crossword puzzle resting under
a glass of lemonade,
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129530
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Connor didn't bother to wait in the line of busy professionals, opting to cut in front of the sign that announced "Line Forms At Other End."
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129511
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our eyes misted white as goatskin
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129520
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The gentleman is discreet, but his eyes wander from his paper at intervals as we travel together from London to Manchester. We happen to be on the same train and he happens to be sitting opposite me. I happen to be a size 34C.
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129521
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Looming ahead was another polite suburban party at which, after a couple of pops, I'd say something that embarrasses my wife in front of her girlfriends. Or so she claims.
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129500
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Sacrificial vic bleeds out . . .
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129554
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“I’m going,” O’Bannon-Krim says with exasperation as she throws trinkets such as Dylan Thomas beer coozies and Edna St. Vincent Millay hair scrunchies into a cardboard box.
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