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At some point, you care/
just enough to wake each morning,
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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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We all stared, somewhat shocked and mostly disgusted.
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Translation’s not required—music/
sings itself complete and comprehensible
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and pressed an area
on my forehead
between my eyes
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She has dwindled for the better part of a year, staved off her period, breasts and hips like a warrior. Chestnut strands that danced along candy apple cheeks now surrender to metal pins, her bun severe as an old maid's. Her prominent ears…
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1393 3 1
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In the fall it is especially beautiful with the blazing orange oaks set on fire against a crystal blue sky. It is here that she frequently daydreams of her demise.
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Sounds terrific, but are there any strings attached?
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1393 3 1
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"Look Emily, I’m charging your solar powered calculator and helping you relieve your dependence on foreign oil."
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1393 1 1
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Clouds quickly appeared, in a perfect peach sky. Big, puffy clouds, moving together, formed the shape of a heart.
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x ≥ ponds rise beyond where you & i have stood
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Some fiftysomething woman with a small dog in her arms was waiting for him, backstage. Security hadn't succeeded in restraining her. Strange.
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My Thursday head belonged to a former Miss Brazil named Rita.
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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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1393 4 4
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My father died. I took his clothes.
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1393 4 2
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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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1393 4 3
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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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1392 11 9
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The commodore drives a 67 Caddy rag top
All fin and boatish power
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1392 2 1
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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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1392 0 0
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The summer was announcing itself in thick waves of heat that rolled like a slow motion hurricane inside Mark Keeler's 1971 Mercury Montego. The car baked in a…
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1392 4 1
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"I am lying on my back and am confused."
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1392 2 1
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The blaring scream from my alarm clock suffices as my wake-up call. It disrupts me from my dream state that I so rarely get the privilege to experience any more. I've always loathed that alarm clock, so I turn it off in the most sensibly aggressive manner I know how: just…
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1392 0 0
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Alysia’s eyes turned to Megumi where her sister nodded. Alysia took a deep breath and stepped back. There was a moment’s hesitation, but she felt Megumi’s hand gripping her wrist.
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1392 6 1
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Why do I love you? The monster that you are?
I love you for revealing to me my strength
My determination, my will
My need to survive
I love you for showing me the gift that is living
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I may as well have been sleepwalking. Either way, I had no opportunity to admire the moonlight flooding into the long corridors, illuminating the stag heads and painted cheeks of long-dead ancestors.
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1392 3 2
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I’m casing the place; my boyfriend Jimmy is about to bust in and rob the store.
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1392 3 2
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His eyes were marbles floating over a void.
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He spotted her in Sarasota Whole Foods surveying the artichokes
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