1513 2 1
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Everything seems still, but it's not.
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151322
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We do the work of fixing people like him?
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151361
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Once was when we were in Vegas on layover from L.A., I told her I thought we should go to the Elvis Chapel and get remarried.
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151332
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What I did I wouldn't call criminal, just stupid. Even my judge, after so many court appointments, didn't understand what had happened. And there's a reason I got out on illegal sentencing but, either way, I paid the better part of a year for it all. I don't want to tell…
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151345
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Don’t break things, I add. And he looks at me like I’ve broken everything else.
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151344
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It was one of those weekday mornings in early spring when Marjorie and I could wander from chapel to chapter house with only security guards for company.
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151342
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He arrived at Bellevue hospital in a straight jacket bound to a gurney.
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1513138
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Treasure that first love. And that first heartbreak. Don’t let it be the last thing.
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151365
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The world is crazy that way— two people close to me gone around the same time and I'm supposed to go on and on like those dryers and smile still and do my schoolin' still ...
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151333
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I immediately felt anxious guilt, being the one responsible for opening the way for infection.
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1512179
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A young girl wavering between celibacy and punk mother-lust despair came to visit us each night
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151200
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Tent City has gone quiet. There is a deadline. I heard it on the news. I’ve never thought about the word before. How in this place it means what it means.
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1512148
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The alphabets will disappear.
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15121211
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I've got an appointment to see my shrink next Wednesday. She's pretty sharp. Not bad looking, either.
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1512108
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you drove by the woman standing on the verge the woman with the shoulders of a long distance swimmer and you told yourself her story: she'd slept in the wiregrass she carries…
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151222
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Sounds terrific, but are there any strings attached?
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1512115
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In the darkness, as I awaken, an orange glowing 3:45 greets me . . .
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151283
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First of all, there was no snow. I seem to remember that. And there was no Christmas tree in the house.
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151261
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You're on the good side of thirty, probably with a little girl or boy of your own sleeping at home, and here you are dragnetting at three in the morning. We're all broken, and the scars we trade are all that remains of our fragile, once complex lives.
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15122311
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We deny one another, here,/
as long as it’s plausible.
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151230
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It's cheap beer, but cold
you welcome that rushing hiss and the following
long drink of chilly wetness washing away
the parched, dust dry, cotton mouth
of grave-digging in the desert sun
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151253
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In his dreamlike state the pianist turned into a preying mantis.
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151252
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Your stepsisters send their love. All three are still on the wagon.
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151221
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I'll strip off the skin down to the begin again.
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151221
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If there was a single constant in the boy’s life, it was that he had always thrown knives. In his youth he had thrown them only in his mind . . .
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1512127
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no need to write it if you/
live it, conscious of the light, the/
shape, the sound, the taste, and shadow.
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151273
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Look around you, see what you have built.
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151200
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They followed the crow up a hill, where lights were at its brightest below. The teens stood frozen in time.
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151153
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The bar was dark and a little dirty, and that suited Splinker's mood just fine.
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1511810
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Life is not always quixotic.
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