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"I am lying on my back and am confused."
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147040
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I await, here at Sandymount Strand / There's a stony bed and moistened sand / Couples dance away into futurity /
With their dogs upon the shore
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147072
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This is what it is to feel yourself forget.
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147000
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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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1470116
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Five evangelists in bathing suits
baptize a man
while green chilies
roast on a Ferris wheel rotisserie
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147012
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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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147011
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Colton nods, without words, understanding the significance of every word that the Old Man has uttered, knowing that in the end, given enough time, we all go down that lonely corner, to embrace the darkness, wishing to be cured of our sentiments.
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147020
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"My sister's parrot admires your armpit," X-Lautrec says. "Would you be so kind as to nail an avocado seed to a cup of black coffee?"
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147065
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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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147074
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147062
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A white room is empty but for you, a card table and a chair.
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147042
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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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1470105
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“Now,” my friend said. “Tell us about earthquakes. Can we expect one anytime soon?”
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147063
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I looked down at Earth and imagined this porn star who’d asked for my help.
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147065
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I was low on carburetor / oxygen and my fraud protection / had just expired.
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147021
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I am exceeded / by a leaf
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146900
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The little clapboard church sits stiffly in the sun. It's steeple marking time with it's shadow on the sidewalk. It is the last place most people would think to look for a vampire, but I am sure that one is in there. Contrary to popular opinion, there
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146921
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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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146972
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146942
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who can quite say/when careless talk & confidence/slips into that other charged thing/so minimal at first
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146920
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“Tell me a story,” he said, toying with his top hat, running his fingers along its brim.
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146954
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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
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146942
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146964
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... he could feel the pointed picket spears.
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146900
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I'm getting self-righteous here, Dear Reader . . . [hey! wait a second! this is my diary! what are you doing, looking at it, dude! Hit the road! Scram! Vamoose!]
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146931
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Though his heart aches
his melody seems to flow
It creeps into the dreams
of all in slumber in the valley below
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146985
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146954
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If you are a family member or friend of a person incarcerated in a correctional facility...
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146922
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In the privacy of a booth?
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146987
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He disrobes; shoes, socks,
shirt, belt, pants. He smells of hard work.
The nude whisper of everything else.
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