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Well, yeah but no one that wasn't pointing a gun at me, mostly. I shot at a lot of people but there were only three times when I can honestly say I know that I blew someone away.
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You might want to think twice before inviting Henry David Thoreau to your next dinner party...
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In order to be a catalyst for catharsis — which is just a fancy way of saying agent of change — you have to be willing to condition yourself into something partially inhuman. Only something on the very outskirts of humanity…
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I want to be adored for something and chose poetry to be that something adored for. But Annie doesn’t see why anyone would ever choose anything over love.
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INSTRUCTIONS: To all students, please address your index card: "To the Finder of this Balloon." Beneath that, write something that will encourage the finder to email you back. Then tape the index card to your balloon's string.Happy Ballooning! To the Finder…
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Tender bodies sizzle on the grill.
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The commodore drives a 67 Caddy rag top
All fin and boatish power
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The car was a two-tone black and white Chevy...
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someone left graffiti on the billboard
over: "God's a hard
act to follow"; the one that made the news
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"...does the nurse, doctor or veterinarian experience greater sexual satisfaction than say the housewife in DesMoines or the sixth grade English teacher in Passaic?"
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It was a pleasant time, my thoughts were mostly good ones, with little effort wasted on regret.
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And he was wearing a mask. Gorilla mask over his gorilla face.
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There are problems we lovingly fashion . . .
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The first apartment Troy and Lynn lived in was managed by an alcoholic former army officer, who lived in the complex with his wife and teenage daughter. He was a lush who didn't do much in the way of management. Lynn had barely noticed him before Troy moved in with her.…
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The plane passes the runway, dips sharply, its shadow straight down below, too cold in the cabin, the sun hitting your arm like a machete below, it is 94, the humidity too, it has just rained for 3 days, it never rains this time of year......
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Lady, if I were going to hire a whore, it wouldn't have been you.
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At some point, you care/
just enough to wake each morning,
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A Beatles haircut and loose Khaki painters overalls rendered the child sexless. He or she walked over to Hugh’s side and standing tiptoe peered into the casket. She, for Hugh had determined it was a girl, stroked the silk lining.
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I immediately felt anxious guilt, being the one responsible for opening the way for infection.
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Loaded on acid, Billy blatzed into a 7-11, holding his dick like he hoped the store guy would think the thing was an Uzi. The guy laughed and pulled out a .38 Special and the cops carted Billy to jail. …
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The moon hung in the sky, round and pale, under cover of some wispy clouds.
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The location : Vic's Seedy Space Bar. No, that's not just a description, that's the real name.
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He trembled as she splayed open his palm...
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Then I found myself in the water.
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Her shoes, left uninhibited below, seem sad but understanding, and she is so in love with something, which makes me so in love with the idea of her.
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My sixth grade teacher used to tell us all the time about how being poor is nowhere near the same as living in poverty.
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Pale like a tracing of a memory
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If this road could answer
I would ask her what it is like
to follow the path
of the rippleshimmery river
for too many miles
through the slowly ghosting towns
and the corncovered landscapes
of the dying Midwest
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...something darkly malevolent looming above him...
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