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He spotted her in Sarasota Whole Foods surveying the artichokes
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152075
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... the CBO issued a concise and brilliant report demonstrating that the most cost-effective and permanent solution to the multiple problems presented by persistent poverty in the United States was the elimination of all those with prorated household or i
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152086
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I wrote her a poem.She said, “I hate poetry.” I said, “OK, just read the words then."
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152064
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Poetry is conceit; emotional, intellectual or technical.
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152020
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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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152022
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My Thursday head belonged to a former Miss Brazil named Rita.
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152055
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She thinks this is the place she dreamed
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151921
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We all thought, Birds! We all thought, Nests inside the chimney!
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151965
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Certain disorders lend themselves to poetics.
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151943
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It was a wake-up call. A sign that I needed to stop and ask if I was making wise and sensible life choices.
My iPod was full.
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151922
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At a candlelit table near the back of the restaurant, Jack and Lois greeted the waiter as he delivered their drinks, a diet coke for him, and for her, a vodka and cranberry. He apologized for the slow bar service and promised to return in a moment to take their…
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151943
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When I met Gregor Samsa he was still a cockroach, erratic and skittish whenever the light came on. We often spoke in the dark. I empathized with the man. I mean bug. Ok. That isn't fair. You can't call a man a bug because he chirps and eats dried skin cells. A…
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151931
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It was more than just taste/
more than a point of view/
and oil and pigment/
that painted a store front church/
a box with a cross in a vacant lot/
that welcomed desperation, faith/
and imagination.
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151943
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The shirts hanging by the back veranda serve as our memorial to them.
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151900
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You need only one who notices.
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151974
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151922
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I want to be adored for something and chose poetry to be that something adored for. But Annie doesn’t see why anyone would ever choose anything over love.
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151942
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I got to see me the other day.
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1519104
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Every day, a fresh new/
strain of Hell reveals itself
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151921
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"That zit on your forehead just won't go away, will it, sweetie?" she adds as she brushes her daughter's bangs downward.
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15181011
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I fall in love with a second cousin at the picnic. I make sure I sit next to her.
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151811
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Summer bakes the metal playground slide to ripples. Still, kids line up. Sadists, all of them. Lucky enough to choose pain. Max feels it every breath, unwanted.
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151831
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Esmée sat alone at a table on the terrace at Marina Jack’s in Sarasota. She had been there ten minutes and no waitress had approached her.
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151855
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Style Shifts “Oh, yes, my cousin. We were rude boys until the armed gangs started to gather. Used to be we could pass a night driving, playing our songs, acting tough. Yeah. We'd mouth off, flash some teeth, spark some anger when we felt like it. We…
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151833
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The shit just doesn't want to come off.
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151800
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The Vegan Defense League is a vigilante group formed to fill the gap left by local law enforcement, who jam the parking lot a mile down the road at a donut shop. “By the time the cops finish their coffee and chocolate frosted donuts, we could be dead.”
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151840
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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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151800
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The eyelid of the sink blinks silence. The clocks choke on smoke.
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1518134
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So I've got this head in a jar and I'm not sure who it belongs to.
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