1467 6 5
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(the hourglass has not gone digital, oh no,/but these days, silicon is in with the sand)
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146700
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Keiko covered her arm while holding the staff. She looked up and saw morning breaking through the sky, but something was unusual about it.
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146774
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"I’ve always wanted to write a novel. Like Catch-22, something off-beat that would start by word-of-mouth, you know, and become an underground classic."
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146700
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Won't speak a word against 'em. Car trunk stunk like bad chicken long after, but I won't speak a word against 'em.
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146775
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The nerves are birds that guide us to feeling the loop and lift of reverie.
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1467129
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Who owns the moon? What title search/
could ever make a claim?
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146740
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We all stared, somewhat shocked and mostly disgusted.
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146721
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I am exceeded / by a leaf
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146622
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We all tell them/even when our mothers
warned us only the Devil/tells stories
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146611
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No chance for Hallo, we sank into an unlit station doorway and he fumbled through my shorts.
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146600
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[CAUTION: READING THIS STORY COULD CAUSE IRREPARABLE "CULTURE SHOCK" AND IS NOT ADVISED FOR OLD FOLKS, PREGNANT WOMEN, OR THOSE WITH "MONSTROUS, FRAGILE EGOS"!]
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146621
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We all thought, Birds! We all thought, Nests inside the chimney!
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1466119
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The commodore drives a 67 Caddy rag top
All fin and boatish power
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146621
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Ben was dreaming of sex with Claudia. But, in his dream, he could hear Dan Arris calling his name and pounding on a door. The fear of Dan Arris was pushing out the delights of Claudia.
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146676
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I almost caught a poet today.
|
146655
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I have a ninety two percent rejection rate.
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146645
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After my mother died, my father shipped me to my uncle's. He hadn't told me she was dying, so he could just mourn alone.Lena lived next door, Italian, my age -- which was ten -- beautiful. She was watched by goons in black suits. Her parents owned a restaurant. Across the…
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146643
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The first time I ever held a gun, I was three years old...
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146612
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she goes jogging with the feet of an angel the sound of crunching leaves like wrapping paper torn open to reveal an expensive doll and the light in her mother's eyes.
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146655
|
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146600
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We named her Big Cat—I don’t know why. Maybe because she was already grown when we got her, unlike the kittens we’d seen in the pet store window that Dad wouldn’t let us have.
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1466105
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“Now,” my friend said. “Tell us about earthquakes. Can we expect one anytime soon?”
|
146521
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Sit down at night and stare into the fire. Consider if Cupid is just another liar.
|
146565
|
He stops smiling and only
says he loves me when prompted,
as if asking me to pass the salt
for his inner peace as it tastes too bland.
|
146511
|
When flash and bang merge you are, according to the manual, in deep do-do.
|
146555
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In an authentic Irish pub in Las Vegas where over much crowd noise the three of us are discussing Yeats, Joyce and Lady Gregory. We’re in an Irish pub after all, plus the fact we’re literature profs attending a Vegas academic conference.
|
146541
|
But tonight
while your finger
glides across
the glossy pages
of Popular Science
I hold a séance
for the Holy Spirit
in utter seriousness
among the book clutter
and crumpled manifestos
in the basement
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146565
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Shhh. I am here. Otillie Augustine, from Trieste, an Italian city to you, but when I lived it was part of Austria. Such things as who flies their flags over a city? Not so important after all, after all the losses and the victory speeches. These were not…
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1465108
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I never took more than a few pills at a time, just enough for a treat on Friday night.
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146542
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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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