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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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1491109
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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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149165
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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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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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14911610
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Lavender, a Liberal Betty, batty from hormones, in a fanciful fit, named her daughter Lavender. Husband Don winced. Brothers Donald, John, Billy, and Tom were puzzled and pleased by this sister, this girl, who was a little bit like them, yet not like them at…
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"But is it politically correct?" he asked. "Oh, yes," said Hank. "It's all the rage."
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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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149132
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I climb up on the sofa and stand next to him. I smell something.
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149100
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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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1490115
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There are no inspirations./
There are only the things I like/
and the much more numerous//
things I do not like.
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i hear the boom boom boom
in the room room room
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1490198
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...collapse of the human world. Go, cell phones!
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149074
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The world is slick as alabaster, taking the guesswork out of the rain. Junction Road moves like thick grease under the tires of my '89 Skyhawk. The old car's making a clicking noise somewhere underneath the high-beam switch and the damn…
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149097
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I remember the living room heater
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149000
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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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149000
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Frank sat next to her on the gurney and squeezed her hand. "You're going to be okay, Astrid. You're going to wake and it's going to be over and you're going to be okay."
"You don't know that," she said.
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149076
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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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149054
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Swatches of Chinese silk in vivid red and lavender fly through the air. My granddaughter in her mid-thirties reaches for the cloth. I see in her mirror a shape forming; a slim, gray haired woman with a spring in her step. I pause to admire my reflection and pass over the…
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149061
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The lipstick on your collar walked up the steps and through the front door, without a key. Her smile was hypnotically red and bountiful. The guards standing around didn't dare frisk her for weapons, her lips were weapon enough.
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149034
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“That pool will be the death of me.”Which Dad said at least a couple of times a week. Ten times the week after he'd read the TXU bill.“Goddamn pump, and that twitchy little Polaris. We should fill that pool with dirt and plant some trees and Asian…
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1490103
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It ain't the steak, it's the sizzle.
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149075
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I was tired and lonesome when I checked into another insufferable, shop-worn Holiday Inn. It was the only motel around with the internet — dial up only — in that little jerkwater town, Notmuch, Alabama. It was too late for a nap, so I jumped in the shower,…
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The bar was dark and a little dirty, and that suited Splinker's mood just fine.
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148911
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Who hasn't got a scar...some flesh wound of memory.
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We are what we are, and that is zombies.
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