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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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1382129
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Enumerate the small delights/ this bright first morning
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138288
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Always in a hurry/to spoil your/weekend
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138211
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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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1381149
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The dog is reading. This morning, as every morning, the book is open in front of him. Well before his master's rise, he had already read the moon then dawn and the clouds. Now the slippers, these that walk here and there. Followed by coffee and the pages that turn. A little…
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138120
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They think because you are a writer you are not much of a listener and so you begin to recognize all of the great opportunities to be much more of a listener and then you shut your trap and get sucked into the whorls of her big wet brown eyes with Italianate…
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138152
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Method of divination. Open a book to any section. Drop your hand onto the page. Read that there is an exorcism happening in the other room.
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138142
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The rain is filling up my shoes,
I can’t see
through my glasses,
Rain all inside me.
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138143
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leaves, starlings and other words fall into thickets of orange or green grasses or tendrils or snakes
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138111
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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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138121
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“Apollo twenty-two. Come in.”, the voice crackled through the speakers of the aircraft. There was only silence broken by a solitary meow and the slight whistle of oxygenated air through the ventilation system. “Captain Snuggles, now that you…
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138175
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1381128
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We suffer//
the one agony only- of having no longer/
any physical effect nor way to speak/
of what we watch to those we watch.
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138162
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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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138155
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There’s someone in the audience who is immolating himself
Cutting his own leg over and over with a pen knife
And groaning: “Oh God, oh God”
And all I can think from up at the podium is
This guy must absolutely hate these poems
I am reading
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138150
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Rumpelstiltskin cried
because you belong to me;
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138133
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two pairs of arms and legs
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138120
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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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138195
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138131
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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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138100
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Over by the swimming pool singing - Hey hey it’s okay - A line from a song he heard - On the stereo when we were driving in the car - On the way to sign the papers to get - His grandfather released from the hospital
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138100
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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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138001
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She could see him doing these things but she could not hear him.
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138010
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The parrots woke Eddie up. That and Rocker snoring in the twin bed. A thousand parrots flying over the motel? They squawked, God how they…
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138093
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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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138054
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I know this much: right now I’m over a thousand miles from my brother. I’ve been watching the odometers, adding it all up.
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138000
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Hits start, enters numbers, runs the program / Does this again one hundred times / Then takes a break
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138051
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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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138055
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138074
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the stars might be the audience or they might not be
if the beat sits right next to me and hugs me nasty
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