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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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137394
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Take no form or face beautiful enough to cause warfare, or that which would provoke inanimate objects to song. If a tree wishes to flower in your presence, request that this happen very slowly.
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137233
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The gate squeaked, the gravel shuffled and the letterbox clattered as February 14th's mail cascaded to the ground.
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1372146
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So many dreams I need to visit, though
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137230
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Roanne, just out of jail, went to cop. That is, she went to beg fat little Freddy the dopeman to front her once more. She'd have to fuck Freddy, of course, but, well, maybe he'd wait until after this time. Likely not…
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Neither of us thought of real winning. We set about brilliant losing, dark angel forms of luck and greed, the desire, the craving, the need to lose so strenuous that one wins; we tied at thirteen.
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137293
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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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1372138
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The bathroom faucet is leaking again. Do they make diapers for faucets?
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137242
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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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137245
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Art books, paintings, antique chairs, marble tables, full length gold gilded mirrors, oriental rugs, tapestries, a Louis XVI painted French armoire, a wrought iron Deco coffee table, flat ware, silver flasks, mantel lamps, iron gates, a silk settee, theat
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137296
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As I walked down to the Subway, I thought to myself that now, after the horror in Boston, everybody looks like a terrorist.
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1372126
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"You gonna be old before you're old," my father had told her.
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137211
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There was no need to drive. She could travel ten miles in ten minutes. She merely had to be careful not to step on any cars or trucks.
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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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No, that can't be him, Joe thought. The guy was messing around the displays in back. He had walked in three or four minutes ago, by now, and he certainly looked the part — or at least Joe thought…
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A brick from the parapet splat down later as I was applying a bitter healing powder, made from the seeds of watermelons, to my raw tongue.
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137132
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today on the bus/ a man in his fifties/ smiled at a baby/
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137110
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What if
Everything
I have been doing
Hasn’t been heard
By anyone?
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137130
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Some of us, however, turn our secrets over in our souls, churning them with the fury of the howling winds of a January night. They are eroded and shaped and fine-tuned with the precision of a jeweler; the deeper and darker they are, the more brilliant of
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"And then I, and I believe,
I alone, saw
this small child
run..."
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137155
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I have a ninety two percent rejection rate.
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If there was another way to describe emptiness, I'd word the endlessness of the sky, of the ocean at low tide.
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Vietnam, Tet, and beaucoup Charlie
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137143
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The first time I ever held a gun, I was three years old...
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Whenever trees or limbs fell in isolate forests—well, no narrators were ever to be found, not even beneath the larger tree trunks or under the fallen limbs.
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137131
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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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137144
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Feelin’, feelin’ good, down-fallin’ down/rain, rain, rain came today,/wet alfresco alchemy
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