1521 11 9
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All else is unmoved/
and relentless in its indifference.
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152142
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Light youth
that
barely touches the
ground
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152121
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152100
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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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1521139
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Remember the equatorial heat, the flies,/
the lurking hum and scream of jungle,/
the squalor? Remember the functionary.
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152154
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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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152183
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First of all, there was no snow. I seem to remember that. And there was no Christmas tree in the house.
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1521105
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She looks for the obit, can't find. Over and over, looks. Nothing. Nothing except something touching her shoulder. Follow me. Corridors, doors, along and along, no time to notice that this last is the stage door — she was so suddenly there in the blare and…
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152130
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A man wearing a dark green coat closed the door loudly. Tanu sat up straight, and stared at him. He looked around till he found her face and sat down in front of her.
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152155
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152131
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While waiting for the water to boil she formulated an excuse that the Saitos would be forced to accept as to why she must drop Isuko as a student. Suddenly the kettle sung out like a soprano, desperate to be silenced.
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152141
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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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152100
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When sixth-grade science teacher Pat Farrell assigns an earth-science lab on measuring crystals, the girls collect their materials, read the directions and follow the sequence from beginning to end. The first thing boys do is ask, “Can we eat this?"
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152121
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If there was a single constant in the boy’s life, it was that he had always thrown knives. In his youth he had thrown them only in his mind . . .
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152198
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I don't think you understand. A sad boy doesn't just die inside, slowly, he becomes withdrawn from certain types of lovely youthful reasoning out loud, accustomed to feeling what is expected, graded, just to be allowed to survive another…
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1521127
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no need to write it if you/
live it, conscious of the light, the/
shape, the sound, the taste, and shadow.
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152134
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Carl’s peculiarity of toilet paper rolls is not covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act – he’s looked it up.
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152053
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The new king hunted often. We heard her whirring above, the terrible whirring a forest of—, and she drifted over our city half dangling from the chopper, rifle barrel glinting.
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152042
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Lorelei was bombarded constantly with it. She began to hate the city...
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152093
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This is me pitching a recently completed screenplay to a film producer at lunch the other day:
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152063
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That is a pretty damning statement.
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152055
|
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152085
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—Jesus, that bastard has everyone in his pocket.
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152022
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Meet Carl. He's six-three, two hundred and thirty pounds. He has light-brown hair,…
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152042
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I am fair game that will be hunted and eaten, cutting its edge with Satan's tears from six eyes.
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152061
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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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152075
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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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151997
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We didn't know him from Adam...
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151994
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These philosophic notions floated in my head for years and eventually helped inspire my pursuit of basic information in contemporary physics, astrophysics, astronomy, and cosmology when I was not reading or writing fiction or verse.
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1519911
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The brain taints everything it brings to us/
with its limited apparatus, its precepts,//
all the things it thinks it knows.
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