1509 2 1
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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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1509 5 2
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Last night I dreamt of water rose too high.
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1509 10 6
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Here comes my speed dealer
he's riding shotgun in the open
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1509 3 3
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I immediately felt anxious guilt, being the one responsible for opening the way for infection.
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1508 3 3
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At least ten people have been shot by their dogs since 2004, usually in hunting accidents. (AARP Bulletin, January February 2016)If somebody phones you claiming to be with the IRS, it's a scam. The real IRS will only open communications with a taxpayer via the U.S.…
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1508 5 5
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This morning I found
A big black crow
Working over a flattened
Squirrel in the middle
Of the road
First day of winter
Longest night
Shortest day
No problem
The rest of the year
Should be a breeze
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1508 2 2
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We do the work of fixing people like him?
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1508 6 4
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“What took you so long?” she asks. She seldom asks me that when we’re done, but today I feel ready to protract the glory, to tease out its rise and fall like the lingering chords of a Debussy pastorale.
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1508 2 1
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I'll strip off the skin down to the begin again.
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1508 6 5
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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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1508 0 1
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The woman in green doesn’t want to encounter the meter maid who is actually a man and so waits to one side at the newspaper racks as if purchasing a paper while that person writes the parking ticket (this city needs that money) and drives away in his li
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1507 17 9
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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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1507 0 0
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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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1507 4 0
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He saw his mother standing over him, and he called out to her for help, but she only laughed and faded into the paper towel dispenser.
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1507 9 9
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Me: In my orange hazmat, the one that makes my eyes look intensely blue.Him: His flexi-human-hamster ball. Fun, but a bit informal for a first date, I think.We're outside because doorways are not easy for him. After some impromptu rounds of bumper balls on the square, he…
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1507 3 1
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angels give them names of important people, people under the control of evil demons whose influence must be negated at all cost if humanity is to survive into the future and achieve its ultimate potential.
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1507 1 1
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years later, she won’t go near the trees
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1507 7 4
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Not all ideas are bad, just mine.
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1507 6 1
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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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1507 7 5
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And right there beside me
That single wobbling
Snail-like trail of my heavy
French Horn case
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1507 10 5
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I'm gonna go find a hole to dwell in
deep in the mountains where the Indians used to live
dig a cave into my subconscious
learn to be less secretive
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1507 3 2
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His eyes were marbles floating over a void.
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1507 5 4
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1506 14 8
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The alphabets will disappear.
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1506 0 0
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I don't like listening to the radio anymore. Nothing is clearer than a live voice with something to say. Give me a big field with no one around but the birds and I will send the bees away from me. I will deny all bugs to buzz.
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1506 5 4
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vampires seem not to be victims of drought . . .
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1506 4 2
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Light youth
that
barely touches the
ground
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1506 3 4
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Wednesdays were humiliating. Third graders had to bring in twenty-five cents for class dues. If you forgot, the teacher would write your name on the board and it would stay there until you settled your debt. My family could afford the weekly quarter; the problem was…
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1506 12 11
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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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1506 10 8
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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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