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x ≥ ponds rise beyond where you & i have stood
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149274
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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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1492109
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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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149265
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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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149200
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You may be wondering, as is only natural, about the designated husband of our dear Princess.
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149252
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149286
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The drop is like a hangman's drop, an executioner's, but farther and longer, perhaps three or four seconds.
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149254
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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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149225
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There is a whisper in the shadows
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149200
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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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149200
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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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149232
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I climb up on the sofa and stand next to him. I smell something.
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149261
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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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149197
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We didn't know him from Adam...
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149111
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Who hasn't got a scar...some flesh wound of memory.
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149111
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“...you should have something moving around here.” Tracey looked around, then said, “Paul, you should get a cat.”
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149100
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Randy stood in the alley behind Krasnowski Construction with a loaded gun shoved down the front of his pants. His friend Todd was inside, unloading the safe. And when Todd walked out the door, Randy was going to shoot him in the face.
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1491107
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"But is it politically correct?" he asked. "Oh, yes," said Hank. "It's all the rage."
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149172
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Love is a strong word ... When you could have been enough.
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149176
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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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149154
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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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149134
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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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1491103
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It ain't the steak, it's the sizzle.
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149043
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149053
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The bar was dark and a little dirty, and that suited Splinker's mood just fine.
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1490119
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All else is unmoved/
and relentless in its indifference.
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149000
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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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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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149076
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"It was John-Darren who once told me that he felt sorry for women."
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1490158
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i hear the boom boom boom
in the room room room
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