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With their brightly-colored bits of
found string
woven into the walls of their nests
to teach their baby birds
what the worms of the future
will look like.
Somewhat like the
cave paintings of Lascaux
for early man in France,
when hunti
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137762
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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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137745
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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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137742
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"Mama skipped the training bras and just gave me her old bras. I'll be 25 before I can wear her old bras..."
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137720
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He also had OCD. He had to kick every dog he met. Johnny killed a lot of dogs and was bitten by many others. He was a cruel bastard.
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137720
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Each had jostled and laboured for his or her place upon the blunt outcrop, in the cold persistent darkness, where the outcrop was merely something that had fallen and not quite been washed away.
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137711
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My mother gave her all to convince him to be a politician. My sister begged on bleeding knees for him to give her head. I just needed somebody to help me find things.
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137700
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Ayane took another look of the area and it was large warehouse. A loud thud vibrated outside.
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137665
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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.
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137600
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[WE'LL LET *YOU* BE THE JUDGE!]
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1376138
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The bathroom faucet is leaking again. Do they make diapers for faucets?
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137655
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I have a ninety two percent rejection rate.
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137673
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Sometimes you have to go wild; you have just to go fucking nuts. You do.
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1376118
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They could occupy the space//
left by creatures larger and more/
evolved.
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137651
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There was no provision for keeping the post on the door, but I did not have the fingernails to pry it off.
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two pairs of arms and legs
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1376128
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That’s a long time/
to live with the certainty/
of your death
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137610
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She lay there, skin and bones, unable to speak. Little did we know those were our last moments togethter. How cruel for her, to want to share a lifetime of thoughts and feelings in those waning moments only to be robbed of the chance. My brother and I…
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137653
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Before the railroad tracks are blown off by the wind, the wall tiles morph to trace 34th Streetwhile a silver balloon emerges from the end of the tunnel. A child’s hand reaches out for the gleam and she, the woman in a black-dress with a mandarin collar,
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137695
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137698
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Regret takes the shape of little clouds ...
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137541
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When I came back from California the second time, in the summer of 1965, I was the first around our town to wear my hair long, influenced by the Beatles. And I bought a bunch of blue caps that everyone in our gang wore, with the number “69” sown on
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INSTRUCTIONS: To all students, please address your index card: "To the Finder of this Balloon." Beneath that, write something that will encourage the finder to email you back. Then tape the index card to your balloon's string.Happy Ballooning! To the Finder…
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137521
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137500
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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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137593
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When I first started this, a few months ago, I was timid about looking people in the eye.
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137521
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But behind the shops (and the many pubs), at the back of the narrow cottage fronts which line the wynds are secret courtyards, surprising gardens and more light than ever imagined.
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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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