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. . . with reference to the Compass of Discourse
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134400
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Long ago, this painter Brussegem had hung the dark mantle of Outcast Artist” over his shoulders—and over his life, he formed a strict philosophy—Art and Only Art—and protected his solitude and artistry with all his moody might,....
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In a mad tipsy leap you came up short and hard on the chipped stone counter Bruised and blue below the seams against the inside of your thigh. Your grand jeté a little too low, left you on the black floorboards Wincing in…
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134455
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"Give it to me I said, you dip! Fork it over!"
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1344138
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He bought damaged and used sex dolls online.
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134444
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On a street-lit night in Jeddah.
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134411
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Ten-year-old Bobby Akins learned that a shotgun shell struck on its brass end with a hammer can indeed take out the left eye of an eight-year-old brother observing the proceedings close by.
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134433
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Tell me everything about yourself, if I could care, I can pretend, let me pretend.
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134442
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Lorelei was bombarded constantly with it. She began to hate the city...
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134441
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The capsules tumble around, one of them plinking against the crown in my upper-right jaw. I hate the crown… a mute reminder of the first time Brad hit me. Swallowing the capsules, my tongue probes the left side of my mouth, finding the other two crowns…
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It is midnight in Utah, but I can’t tell. It always looks like midnight in a cave.
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Sometimes you have to go wild; you have just to go fucking nuts. You do.
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134451
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They come in my room without knocking and I'm nekkid.
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134343
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They found your athymic neck/clipped like a bag of Skittles/and your lifeblood left a Rorschach test on the dash/in which they saw the future/and their own exits/(straight ahead and to the right).
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134365
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When I slip through the seams I return to the same place.
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134300
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I should have never gotten involved in such a huge lie. I was a poet, for God's sake, not a novelist. I wasn't used to lying.
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Amanda Palmer's explaining the eyebrow thing. An altercation with someone at Roadrunner, or maybe old boyfriend shit to burn— She's animated but he's losing signal, filling in the blanks himself. Whatever, it won't light at first, and then WHUMP and she…
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like the Bible in / Mauritania, like a mouse in a vial of ammonia, / like a retired coal miner on vacation in the Alps
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134362
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The laptop has ruined the sanctity of the library. And so I get up and go see Queen Jane.
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134362
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I was, so I was told, the product of much hard work and a lot of invasive procedures. Initially, I'm sure my parents were making love, but then came the slog, the repeated failed attempts at getting one of mother's millions of eggs fertilized. Those tadpoles just couldn't…
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134374
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The stain upon / many others cannot be discerned.
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134376
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Now, this boy removed his socks in front of me, on the chair beside my desk where I read my books, and said: “My toenails aren’t shaped properly.”
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134332
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It was the coward's way out, to commit suicide. And yet, one had to be brave to attempt it.
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I am confused by your new paper-doll look, btw. Could you please look regular again by Thursday?
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134341
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To rival the professor in his knowledge of various body parts is impossible ...
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134354
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When you say they were too big, too wild, they weren't too big to be giants. Giants are meant to dwarf things. They can't help it. They're not trying to make you feel helpless to give them a haircut. They just grow fast. But they…
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Ivy Oppel was one hard cousin to cry for. And a hard woman, too, but Ooops! Kapow! There's a hole in her head. Not hard enough, then.
I'm harder, thought Dumasha. A girl with a gun can have some fun in this world.
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He picked at his food. The teen-aged boys gnawed the bones. The conversation was nothing he was interested in. Chitchat and family jokes.
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“Eat more bugs,” said an old one.
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I want to read a story that ends unhappily ever after: one where the bad guy wins and no one gets the girl.
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