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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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I always thought I would feel your hand, always, Lay with you as we flew higher together, laugh with You in the little spaces left between certain trees, like tiny blue flowers that only appear suddenly, made secretly Of…
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134883
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A Beatles haircut and loose Khaki painters overalls rendered the child sexless. He or she walked over to Hugh’s side and standing tiptoe peered into the casket. She, for Hugh had determined it was a girl, stroked the silk lining.
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It's come down to this: you're a grown man afraid to face his own son. For the past few years there has been tension;…
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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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The alphabets will disappear.
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James Hubert III sat at the bar. It was late. His wife and kids were long in bed and he knew he should be, too. But with the Lovelandtown lift bridge stuck in mid-air, a drink beckoned him. He sat next to Vince DeSantos, a small, stout man, with a bowling
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13472011
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the frost has made all tender greens bow
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1347134
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So I've got this head in a jar and I'm not sure who it belongs to.
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134750
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Rumpelstiltskin cried
because you belong to me;
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134786
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I wrote her a poem.She said, “I hate poetry.” I said, “OK, just read the words then."
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134742
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Dandelions wither as I approach and the grass dies under my feet.
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134732
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For a time he documented his facial expressions.
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1347105
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“Now,” my friend said. “Tell us about earthquakes. Can we expect one anytime soon?”
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134732
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The voice on the other end mumbles, not forming words, but I understand: I am to be the starting third baseman for the Detroit Tigers.
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This morning I found
A big black crow
Working over a flattened
Squirrel in the middle
Of the road
First day of winter
Longest night
Shortest day
No problem
The rest of the year
Should be a breeze
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Is any person is worthy of the kind of ache?
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134611
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Aw, cheer the fuck up. I'm Silly Putty.
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134611
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The room turns red and I start screaming and ejaculating. The whole class is watching as Mr.Smith slams down my copy of the test with his right hand and swiftly tears off my penis with his left.
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most interesting, i investigate all of this at 1:15 on a thursday morning and consistently contradict my assumptions while simultaneously validating them.
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134662
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A white room is empty but for you, a card table and a chair.
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134661
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I do not know what zinzins is, what a zinzins is, who zinzins is.
I do not want to know
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I still see Big Mama leaning over her garden to pick a zinnia to put in her still life. Her old pink slip, hanging diagonally a foot under her hiked up, ragged, stained dress, half covered by her paint smock, which matched her white, faux fur, bedroom sli
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“The window is a much better place to read,” she said.I wasn't aware she was talking to me, at first. In my typical manner, I was thinking about far off possibilities and realities completely detached from my own. Yet, here she was, a far off…
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Incidents intensified. The Dead appeared in twos and threes at shopping mall and Wal-Mart parking lots.
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134598
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drunkards indulge, addicts abuse
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It’s End of the World Karaoke at Big Daddy’s and Lara takes a photo of herself for Facebook before she goes on stage. She’s holding a basket of nachos in one hand and her phone in the other. After she takes the photo, she says, to Javier, “Hold these,” an
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Even before I tap on the door I know I am being watched with one eye. My footsteps have surely given me away. A swift tug on it reveals her to me—half of her, that is, and I slink past the threshold, to her. From her eyes I see that she has…
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the emergence of the Beatles and the Vietnam War
sad human electricity
no buzz of any wheel
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The gentleman is discreet, but his eyes wander from his paper at intervals as we travel together from London to Manchester. We happen to be on the same train and he happens to be sitting opposite me. I happen to be a size 34C.
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