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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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136232
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It's a tunnel, you know, like the neck of a bottle, the tunnel the hair comes up, it's coming out soon, I'm an adolescent now, dammit.
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136222
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For two days his parents had been fighting, and they would tell him to tell the other one something every morning that was supposed to be some sort of slight at their personal failings, which had been inflamed by their twenty years of marriage.
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136286
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Said do you feel it when you touch me?
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136232
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For a time he documented his facial expressions.
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136110
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[My baloney has a first name: it's Oh, Ess, Cee, Ay -- shit! I forget the rest! Can we start over?]
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136154
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hey, this is me who danced to the Doors
I thought I would surely dodge that bullet
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136142
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Stars fat as the stars that Van Gogh painted on his easel in Arles, a ring of candles burning on the brim of his hat. Stars that fill the night with delirium.
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136155
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The baby will not stop crying.
He’s been crying for three hours straight.
I’m the worst mother ever.
What kind of mother can’t soothe her own baby?
The bad kind.
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136182
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Listen to chickadees. Join / LinkedIn.
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136165
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"People are stupid. They've always been stupid. But these days...." His voice trailed off. "Dumb and dumber, huh?" the Boss asked. Peter nodded.
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136121
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Grady Quail wondered why God didn't just have another son
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136131
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Flish flash, flish flash, flicker of triangle lights. As he deparks, I say, “See that girl?” She crosses at the stop sign with blond hair flip, flash of white teeth: rips cookie from wrapper, drops wrapper on ground. “I bought her a…
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1361138
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The stars align against us. Lines of force/
collaborate to push us off the edge/
into the dark abyss we’ve joked about.
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13611110
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136142
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they tried to trick the sun
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136087
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Study decay, says the Queen of the Underground.
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136042
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There was this old guy named Ned. He swept floors. No one knew much about him. He'd been around for years sweeping the concrete floors of the hangar-sized buildings that housed the major mechanical service departments at an old amusement park.
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136040
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Then it started extruding tendrils and tying them all into intricate knots.
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136000
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136012
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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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136042
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136050
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Rumpelstiltskin cried
because you belong to me;
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1360116
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the neighborhood glistens, silver,/
in an otherwise sad November/
light
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136086
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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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136031
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The trouble with alarm clocks is naturally that they are miserable. And their curse is that their misery is useful: we employ them because we want to get away from them. But we would never have one as a friend.
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136041
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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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136043
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The first of the fires that started by the river in the abandoned mills were so hot they burned white and pale blue
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135932
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1. It started coming down in flakes. The room was warm and the windows were double insulated, but she was naked and her body was being dressed in snow. He stood over her with the spray can. Maybe you can be the Christmas tree this year. You won't keep me till Christmas she…
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She wheeled more deeply into the office towards Mason’s desk. Keith hurried to the desk and pulled the chair out of the way for her and a sat down next to her. She was blue-eyed, pale and completely hairless, which made it difficult to guess her age.
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