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I could feel myself slipping back into my old ways again and it always hurt like hell.
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Methuselah. That’s what they call him, the regulars that ride my train. Other things too, but Methuselah is the one that sticks in my mind. It seems to fit. It’s not as cruel.
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149295
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The car was a two-tone black and white Chevy...
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149233
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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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149264
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i dream a thousand interconnected pictures. i dream the future. i dream we are together. i dream i love you. i dream i am forgiven. i dream you care. i dream nice dreams. i go to the bank. i deposit my check. i pay the rent. i pet the cat. i…
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149251
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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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149265
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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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149252
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149241
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You gather their faces in the palms of your hands and their purple eyes blink, blink, unseeing.
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149276
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Now, this boy removed his socks in front of me, on the chair beside my desk where I read my books, and said: “My toenails aren’t shaped properly.”
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149264
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It was 6 a.m. when the phone next to the bed awakened Francesco.
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149275
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It is not unusual for farmers to see the future before it’s begun—but I am not speaking here only of the need to hope but more. . . .
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Magdalena White Herrington praised the lucky stars who’d sent her the Klonakilty ghosts.
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149100
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One cold winter's day she met what she thought was the love of her life. He had everything going for him but his age. You see the sweet young thing was a lot younger than her. One might say that she had lived many lives before he had been born.
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149185
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the emergence of the Beatles and the Vietnam War
sad human electricity
no buzz of any wheel
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149162
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The machines are alive but she is not. The pads keep her face from being irritated but my mind isn't so lucky."Let me GO!" she cries....at least that's what I hear. They are waiting for permission for her to go. Eager hesitation best describes the tense…
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149154
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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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149175
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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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149164
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x ≥ ponds rise beyond where you & i have stood
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149132
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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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I don't need to be toldhow natural you are, not here.I'm reminded every singletime I open my eyes.What I want to know iswhere have you gone? Whyhas it taken you so verylong to return? But Iknow the answer. You aresomewhere fighting for your dearlife. It's what we all do--in…
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149100
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You may be wondering, as is only natural, about the designated husband of our dear Princess.
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149154
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If you can imagine a ghost taking a shower then you can imagine the kind of emotion I have in mind.
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149155
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I think the Air Force Colonel must have known, from the flushed looks on our faces, that I had just fucked his daughter in a roadside patch of ragweed on the way to their house somewhere outside Danville. I remember looking back and forth between him and
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149155
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149125
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There is a whisper in the shadows
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149100
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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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149161
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The old man is dead,
body propped in its cart
like the dead El Cid
strapped on his horse by Jimena
to save Valencia,
and yet...
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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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