1384 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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1384103
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It ain't the steak, it's the sizzle.
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138493
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138311
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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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138344
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138361
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money ain't nothin next to lovin.
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138321
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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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138301
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I was driving by with a dampened eye
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138332
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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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138322
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We do the work of fixing people like him?
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138374
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My work is not that sexy and glamorous kind of time travel that you see in the movies with Deloreans and phone booths.
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1383198
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...collapse of the human world. Go, cell phones!
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138354
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“You haven’t been listening, have you.”
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138363
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That is a pretty damning statement.
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138364
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... he could feel the pointed picket spears.
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138375
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... the CBO issued a concise and brilliant report demonstrating that the most cost-effective and permanent solution to the multiple problems presented by persistent poverty in the United States was the elimination of all those with prorated household or i
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13831110
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Almost every weekend I'd ask Henry to go out with me and Marge, telling him we could double and, hey, maybe he could bring Ellen, who he dated a while back, who still asked about him. I'd suggest such things as going to a movie or out for a few drinks to reminisce about our…
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138342
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In the mode of Swinburne's ‘Dolores':For the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster- A study of the notion of “Intelligent Design” Since the universe came into dawning, If e'er this bright universe did, Men ought to know better in…
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1383118
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There are stories I will not tell, stories I shudder / to remember. You'll forgive me for withholding them from you. / You may, of course, not tell me everything about yourself either
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138300
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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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138342
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they tried to trick the sun
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1382148
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The alphabets will disappear.
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138220
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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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138253
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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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13821613
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The body is an endless safari
filled with rhino sightings
and encounters with antelope.
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138201
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On the street / The protesters stand / Yelling words empty as wind
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138221
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Big Girl always stops on Talbert Hill.
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138275
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The woman abruptly closed her legs.
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138277
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It’s so uncomfortable being an Angel in a sack
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138284
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—Well, are you having an affair with Jack Mahler?
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