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Magdalena White Herrington praised the lucky stars who’d sent her the Klonakilty ghosts.
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We're killing off the elephants. We're killing off the tigers. We're killing off monarch butterflies. We're wrecking the coral reefs. Big sad gorillas don't feel at home in their own homes. And all instead of learning to live in some…
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heart-shaped stones
love, devotion
no way
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How could a leaf be an accident?
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I know this much: right now I’m over a thousand miles from my brother. I’ve been watching the odometers, adding it all up.
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He did not hear her enter the room...
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He boasts of administering regular beatings to his wife and claims that she enjoyed it.
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I remember the living room heater
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I think the Air Force Colonel must have known, from the flushed looks on our faces, that I had just fucked his daughter in a roadside patch of ragweed on the way to their house somewhere outside Danville. I remember looking back and forth between him and
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". . those incandescent secrets she would
pepper in. The sister who ran away."
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I separate my thoughts into two / camps
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There were guitar players, and as happens with talent sometimes, the guitar players were too talented. There could not be places for all of them in a single rock band.
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There were security guards running all over the place. Campus police cars, with lights flashing, at various locations in the distance. Sora gripped her books tight as they saw their dormitory building ahead.
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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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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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Stroman reached over and stroked the perimeter of Rouge's chin with his thumb. 'I am just joking. You are my soul-mate, you know that?'
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I was driving by with a dampened eye
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...Truth is, it’s because of fabulously wealthy men and women like myself who long ago sucked all the cream out of the bottle, and now we’re coming back for whatever milk remains.
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he wanders the house/ crying for the hairless tomcat/ (gone for the night/ on an overnight job).
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x ≥ ponds rise beyond where you & i have stood
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It's been twenty years since you left. I should call it a day.Even the Obeah woman said as much. But I don't listen. Instead I sit with old and proper ethnic widows in black, waiting for your return. One of them translates my story for the…
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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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You borrow words from platforms you could never build
Borrow morals from a party gone sour
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Feelin’, feelin’ good, down-fallin’ down/rain, rain, rain came today,/wet alfresco alchemy
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Last night, in a tavern called Wits End, we dropped quarters into a console, sized and shaped like an old TV.
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One cold winter's day she met what she thought was the love of her life. He had everything going for him but his age. You see the sweet young thing was a lot younger than her. One might say that she had lived many lives before he had been born.
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Too often, Calvin's willful head finds its way into his hands.
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"I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be. And so I'm on my way home."--Bob Dylan I don't owe you anything. If I'm a recluse what does it have to do with you? I have the right to be poor. Some things cannot be explained away by letters that…
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