1402 9 5
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The car was a two-tone black and white Chevy...
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140261
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money ain't nothin next to lovin.
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140221
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I want to own you, even if it is only for a few moments or a few hours, but it will not be worth it unless for that brief span of time I know that the only purpose of your existence is to be a woman whom I own.
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140232
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It's a tunnel, you know, like the neck of a bottle, the tunnel the hair comes up, it's coming out soon, I'm an adolescent now, dammit.
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140200
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I hauled out my Norton Anthology and threw caution to the wind.
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140296
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...when suddenly I was pushed from behind, smack into the deep end.
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140222
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Other men looked up and, rather than feeling pleasantly surprised at the sudden sound of ethereal metal crickets in their presence, left the restroom after hastily finishing their silent shaking. Mitch joined them, feeling like a coward for being afraid o
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140264
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He injected her with a sedative to keep her still. He projected himself into her narcotic dream, a small bar with tango playing from a jukebox. They were dancing.
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1402106
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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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14021411
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140272
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Love is a strong word ... When you could have been enough.
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140294
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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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140296
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I let go of my properties, my work.
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14021110
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140299
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No one has touched me for a long, long time and I believe that is why I am dying. This is a notion that is new to me but it has persisted over the last few weeks and I believe I finally have apprehended the truth. There was a time, I remember all too well,…
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140154
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what lion lies/ o king of flame/ upon your golden crown?
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140164
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It was entirely my fault, misreading signals. I have a clumsy imagination, mistook your gushing about my boobs as a soul connection. Then you said something about us being lovers in a past life, and I remembered Bobby Bubion from high school, his strategy for…
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140120
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The boy grew frightened when his grainy wooden skin began to melt, every fiber humming and softening.
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140111
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Summer bakes the metal playground slide to ripples. Still, kids line up. Sadists, all of them. Lucky enough to choose pain. Max feels it every breath, unwanted.
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140144
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140143
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It was a wake-up call. A sign that I needed to stop and ask if I was making wise and sensible life choices.
My iPod was full.
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140132
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When I rolled him under the bed, I thought I would sweep him out later with arms curled up like legs beneath the shells of cicadas I used to gather from the laundry porch and set on the kitchen counter to scare my roommates. At least, I did that until…
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140164
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. . . he wants to organize society into its most efficient configuration with everyone thinking alike and willingly cooperating. Only then, he believes, can humanity reach its full potential.
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140120
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There is no life here, only a bleak slab of frozen desert and a sorrowful wind that calls for me to venture out.
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140101
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I was driving by with a dampened eye
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140122
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We do the work of fixing people like him?
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140197
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I remember the living room heater
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140110
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Hoo-ah! I love these open mikes, I get a chance to pour it out, this… whatever it is, this passion, all this love from I’ll never know where, and then, and then, sometimes, too much hate. Everything’s like all zowie!—splashing scarlet and purple,
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140165
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I was low on carburetor / oxygen and my fraud protection / had just expired.
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140000
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Mort’s hand-mind suffered electrifying-absence-emptiness; no wife.
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