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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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137474
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The stain upon / many others cannot be discerned.
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137443
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The first time I ever held a gun, I was three years old...
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1374118
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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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137421
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“There’s enough food to last here a week.” Ferdinand assured, as a dingy wooden cabin came into view. They were on foot now. He’d insisted on forcing the car into a ravine, using a heavy rock and the last of the gasoline to drive it into a heap of rusted
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137421
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I am exceeded / by a leaf
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137444
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Feelin’, feelin’ good, down-fallin’ down/rain, rain, rain came today,/wet alfresco alchemy
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137354
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I got no good hubcaps
My van is up on bricks
It's held together with duct tape
And a couple of crummy sticks
I caught the guy who did this
And tied him to a tree
I kicked him in the windpipe
And kicked him in the knee
I'm a man witho
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137344
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The woman lit a cigarette and sat on the edge of the bed, crossing one leg over the other. She took a long drag, tilted her head back, paused. Her eyes flicked to the NO…
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137332
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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137311
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Sometimes you wait by the mailbox and he doesn't come. It doesn't come, the letter, the talisman from another world you've been waiting for, and you give up. You finally open…
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137343
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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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137395
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Then I found myself in the water.
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137364
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After the Tokyo experience, Frank and Michiko decided that when she went on extended tours, Frank would accompany her.
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1373128
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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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137331
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137332
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What I did I wouldn't call criminal, just stupid. Even my judge, after so many court appointments, didn't understand what had happened. And there's a reason I got out on illegal sentencing but, either way, I paid the better part of a year for it all. I don't want to tell…
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137341
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Describe my origami, the shape of a gun or a limp dick, or maybe a flower.
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137363
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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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137322
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Meet Carl. He's six-three, two hundred and thirty pounds. He has light-brown hair,…
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137300
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It was unusual, a feeling of déjà vu waft in the air. However, this was completely new to them. Mayumi gripped her shoulders as Emi’s lips moved trying to ease her fear. Mayumi did not understand what this stuff was.
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137353
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And your daughter, Mrs. P, and your daughter Mrs. Q, underwater, underwater in the old swimming hole, in the backyard swimming pool. “They’ve all got children there.” La la.
Yet when I’m naked, when I enter with my own body the mirror, the small sha
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13721011
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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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137210
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What if
Everything
I have been doing
Hasn’t been heard
By anyone?
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137250
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"And then I, and I believe,
I alone, saw
this small child
run..."
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137241
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137255
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How the hell do these 1/8 inch long red-eyed flying insects wind up in my kitchen anyway?
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137252
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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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137221
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Vietnam, Tet, and beaucoup Charlie
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137232
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The Italian was late. She was supposed to come into the store, meet him in the back, and arrange to take the last of his liquor.
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