1506 6 5
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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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1506108
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A familiar ritual by now...
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150685
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there's looks between the covers and shotguns in the drawer
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150655
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150663
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I feel so glamorous when I talk to Andy on the phone
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150653
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Benjamin stands beside his bed and unpacks his few things – wire cutters, knife, tape, line, two blocks of C-4, wallet, brush, and a small stuffed animal – a monkey.
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1505119
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All else is unmoved/
and relentless in its indifference.
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150500
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I remember one time when we played strip poker in the basement of your house on Euclid Avenue, me, Terry, you and Andy. And I remember drinking lots of wine and fixing the deck so that you kept losing and having to take off all your clothes, and still you
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150554
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He did not hear her enter the room...
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150554
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My wife says you can tell the crooks from the cops from the cowboys at the taco truck across the street.
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150565
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"People are stupid. They've always been stupid. But these days...." His voice trailed off. "Dumb and dumber, huh?" the Boss asked. Peter nodded.
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150500
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Emi watched the Perez sisters show each other support. It brought back memories of Mayumi giving her support, even fighting for her.
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150535
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at nightthe mannequins leave their glass prisons and hunt owls in the forest***sometimes they dance a slo-mo tarantella in a clearingbone-white …
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150596
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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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150500
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“Well in opposite heaven every time you make scrambled eggs the shells break into a million pieces, then you spend eternity picking them out of the yolk.”
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150500
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“You. There,” said the fellow, pointing his gun like a dead finger. “You believe that water saves the soul, don’t you?” Thomas looked to the other boys for an answer, but they didn’t know any more than he did.
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150576
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Lonely kids only want this thing to go away and stay away. To not be lonely anymore. The lonely, uncool Kids have learned to be absolutely Still in the moment. Who does this fall to? They Haven't read enough Vonnegut for your liking? David Foster…
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150521
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My father had a terrific argument with his wife, my stepmother, a flaming harridan with a voice like hydrochloric acid, and insisted on driving me back home to California.
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150563
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". . those incandescent secrets she would
pepper in. The sister who ran away."
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150400
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Everyone gathered around Karin with the Mana Spirits. She wrapped her arms around her waist, staring at the ground.
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1504129
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How could a leaf be an accident?
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150421
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150412
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...Truth is, it’s because of fabulously wealthy men and women like myself who long ago sucked all the cream out of the bottle, and now we’re coming back for whatever milk remains.
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150433
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he wanders the house/ crying for the hairless tomcat/ (gone for the night/ on an overnight job).
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150451
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I lift up my sweatshirt and reach with a full fist into my belly button. This is where the fat comes out.
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150471
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I have the right to remain silent. If I waive that right everything I say can and will be used against me like a razor dragged across my neck.
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150444
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I was so used to the silence of late summer afternoons, when I could roll my hoop through the empty, sunlit piazzas without meeting another shadow, that at first I mistook the footsteps for the beat of a metronome spilling through an open window.
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1504105
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It's been twenty years since you left. I should call it a day.Even the Obeah woman said as much. But I don't listen. Instead I sit with old and proper ethnic widows in black, waiting for your return. One of them translates my story for the…
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15041311
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I was always more comfortable with the ponies than you were / more comfortable with betting windows and two-dollar bills than you were
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150497
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I remember the living room heater
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