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It’s so uncomfortable being an Angel in a sack
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It worked for a short time and their next album, "The Hirsute Agenda" became an underdog success.
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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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1365 0 1
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“Hi, I'm Mike, and I don't wanna work ... Wanna play foos?”
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1364 0 0
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Mother’s eyes stared outward in a trance, on her throne, visualizing the world Azure made. Though it was right before her, she could not reach it.
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We write poetry, but are unable to calm ourselves. We need more men of the world (like you) who are not too much amazed by experience. Men who can lead a dual life. Who have sexuality but remain detached, whole. The bodily, the sensual, easy give and ta
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Even before I tap on the door I know I am being watched with one eye. My footsteps have surely given me away. A swift tug on it reveals her to me—half of her, that is, and I slink past the threshold, to her. From her eyes I see that she has…
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"I am lying on my back and am confused."
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I said hey man, how you doin’? He looked up and nodded but his shades flashed and I couldn’t see his eyes.
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We’re lucky it/
was chunky spew,
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Outside Natsume’s room, in the kitchen, Mrs. Saito and Emi prepared lunch. They were silent, but there were no feelings of negativity in the air.
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1364 2 1
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Everything seems still, but it's not.
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1364 1 1
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When flash and bang merge you are, according to the manual, in deep do-do.
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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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On a trail, Richard and I came upon a saguaro cactus that had dried in the shape of a human figure. Its arms were lifted and its back was stooped. I said, “It looks like my mother.”
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Colton nods, without words, understanding the significance of every word that the Old Man has uttered, knowing that in the end, given enough time, we all go down that lonely corner, to embrace the darkness, wishing to be cured of our sentiments.
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1364 10 6
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We bought a grand piano at Steinway Hall after 9/11, chased uptown by the dust of death and awakening from dreams of miniature jumpers stuck in the icing of white wedding cakes
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1364 10 8
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I never took more than a few pills at a time, just enough for a treat on Friday night.
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my second language / to silence / plainsong of / the breast
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I got to see me the other day.
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Josh was having a hard enough time getting through his final year of studies without having his sister point out his fledgling love life to his parents.
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1363 0 0
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Mezereon’s giant dragon heart marveled at the girl’s revelations. First, he was heartsick for her and the sad state of things back where she had come to him from. Secondly, he was aghast to learn she was a princess; for even dragons know and respect r
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1363 0 0
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When she got back to Claire's, she was hammered and she had no idea what time it was, what day, or, frankly, what planet. It was the first time she'd been that drunk in years. The last time she could remember getting even close to that wasted was at a Christmas party right…
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Her eyeballs are made of fur, like plush little bumblebees at home in her sockets.
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I am going to quit clicking refresh, only because it is clear nothing is happening out there. After I click refresh just one more time, that is, and then I am closing the window. After clicking one more last time. …
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I walk through nameless
streets, narrow and winding,
past shops selling scarves,
spices, skins.
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Suddenly I'm not feeling it anymore. /
Poetry has become insufficient. /
I can't do it like I used to.
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Read that bit in Alice about the mock turtle soup
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It wasn't pain
but half of it,
so half of it I mended
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