1415 4 4
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My flash kept going off. The museum officials are strict about such matters. Sans flash! Sans flash, Monsieur!
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...collapse of the human world. Go, cell phones!
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They wanted to go fresh water fishing, so I had to buy worms. None there in the saltwater town. Drove about 10 miles over the long bridge to cross the bay. I'd been there before. Walked in and a crusty, little skinny man got up from his chair. He: Watcha need? Me: Fresh…
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141501
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At first we thought we could get by using honey so we all stormed the SuperMart and cleaned the shelves out of Suzie Bee Honey. First the jars and then the squeeze bottles, but it wasn't the same. Then Mary Sue yelled out “How about brown sugar?”…
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141500
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I felt the most afraid I’ve ever felt in my life, like all the unknowns in the universe were rushing through me at once.
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. . . with reference to the Compass of Discourse
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141532
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The voice on the other end mumbles, not forming words, but I understand: I am to be the starting third baseman for the Detroit Tigers.
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1414117
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respect your parents. or not.
stay put. or not.
finish school. or not.
get married. or not.
stay married. or not.
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141476
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"It was John-Darren who once told me that he felt sorry for women."
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141486
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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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141476
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“Somebody told me you write books.”
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14141311
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Ah, how sweet is forbidden fruit, how delicious undiscovered sin!
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1414116
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W here do you think you're going
what'll you think you'll do
running down this highway
that you never even knew
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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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141411
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Winter in Phoenix Arizona happens in July. An overgrown lawn is working its way up onto The sidewalk. And then there's you with your mower, A hidden newspaper in the middle of everything. Snowflakes puff out from under Spinning blades. You hover above like…
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141411
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Everybody knew the McDonald’s at the Waterfront was selling theraflu stamp bags, and I guess I’d heard how bad it was for you—they’d had reports of dumbasses ODing on channel 2, 4, and 11—but it was a lot stronger than regular heroin and a lot cheaper...
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1414115
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So I told her
think of it this way:
you’re my unlived life.
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141400
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He reached into the bag on the table and pulled out a ten inch record, sleeved in brown paper, with a circle cut out to display the label information. He handled it delicately, like a fresh egg.
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141433
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141421
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Lady, if I were going to hire a whore, it wouldn't have been you.
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141400
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It happens. Someone blows something off, someone else forgives it, then tat for tit and verse visa, and you’re missing someone’s wedding because you thought it was Thursday and they didn’t mention it to you anywy, but you’re still BFF and don’t
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141496
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And soon you'll be walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
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14142115
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A small poem about incipient insanity
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141494
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19. You never know yourself till you know the dust. 51. Treasures are the ligatures between our wants and love. 33. Truth is able to turn one's stomach.
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141443
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I still see Big Mama leaning over her garden to pick a zinnia to put in her still life. Her old pink slip, hanging diagonally a foot under her hiked up, ragged, stained dress, half covered by her paint smock, which matched her white, faux fur, bedroom sli
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141311
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No chance for Hallo, we sank into an unlit station doorway and he fumbled through my shorts.
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141312
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and like the want
of weather, we walk away or come close
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1413168
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I watch the seagulls making their quacking noises
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141321
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Up top, the sky is like a fist fight-
fat lip purple and bitchslap pinks get wilder as the tabs kick in.
Those hovering lights are aliens!
we assert with insistent like-mindedness
from where we sit directly beneath the airport flight path.
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