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“You haven’t been listening, have you.”
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159040
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Over the years, Morgana had grown. She was so much more than what Xavier remembered. So much different. She had an astute, almost shrewd air about her. She didn't seem nearly as fragile as he had left her. No, she had an eye out for herself now.…
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159098
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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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1590106
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Tired, so tired of it all, but oh we'll always go on, won't we, still carrying on about the love the love the love we shared, only again and again. Ooh the oozing life blood is slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly now going to shit I say, practically…
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1590108
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A familiar ritual by now...
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1590117
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... his skin glistened
like a sharp blade
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159053
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1) be awake2) wear clothes1a) get out of beda1) go to bed the night before6) put a smile on her face, but not too smiley6a) maintain precisely calculated level of irony and derision in a just kidding (not kidding!) manner suited to responses of the enemy6aia) normal words,…
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159085
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My grandmother is magnificently breasted in her floor-length nightgown.
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159000
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When sixth-grade science teacher Pat Farrell assigns an earth-science lab on measuring crystals, the girls collect their materials, read the directions and follow the sequence from beginning to end. The first thing boys do is ask, “Can we eat this?"
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159011
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Burne-Jones hair and big-boned body ever-suggestive of a Titian Venus ... [meets] ... warm like toast, grey smiling eyes and dartingly light-footed,
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15901010
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I take her to the zoo, and the tigers get out. The little tigers, I mean. Cubs. Two of them.
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159054
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A poem not about fog written in fog with an erasable pen.
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1589107
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You stretch my heart / in sacred ways
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1589106
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I'm using a 16mm motion picture camera with sound on film, equipped with a magazine holding six hundred feet, giving me approximately fifteen minutes of continuous shooting. Uzma has changed her cloths again. She's dressed for working in the garden, wearing a white…
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158986
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Because we are exceptional,/
our 3000 dead in New York/
exceeds in impact that of 75,000/
burned at Nagasaki,
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158962
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Tarzan peers through a telescope. Earth, in its aphelion, is approximately 40 million miles away. A star. He lives alone. He is old. He worries about going blind. Mars is cold. But there are ways to keep warm. He reads poetry. He lets out bloodcurdling…
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158965
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I left the train, still going nowhere, but in a hurry.
Still a boy, but trapped in a suit.
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158944
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This story* is brought to you by
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158932
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It was the coward's way out, to commit suicide. And yet, one had to be brave to attempt it.
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158965
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Mice dreams are a reality ...
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158972
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Love is a strong word ... When you could have been enough.
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158998
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I don't think you understand. A sad boy doesn't just die inside, slowly, he becomes withdrawn from certain types of lovely youthful reasoning out loud, accustomed to feeling what is expected, graded, just to be allowed to survive another…
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1589114
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Sunset swoony love waves
crash over me and I forget why
I didn’t say yes sooner
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158820
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“Each animal has its own strength.” She insisted. “And if the rooster were provoked. It would kill a snake.”
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158855
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I am a buttress against chaos. And now I am turning yellow.
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158812
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In exactly 100 words, I review the cracks between my keyboard keys.
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158831
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black
hair/ (damp)
around her ears
Keys on the
table
Drinking coffee
from a glass
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158866
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Divine guidance. That's why Dad used a blowtorch to set the jug on fire, its contents the “Devil's elixir.”
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158874
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Kids said the boiler room was haunted. I don’t know if it was true then but it sure is now.
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158820
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There is no life here, only a bleak slab of frozen desert and a sorrowful wind that calls for me to venture out.
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