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Breathe a stench of Eton musk...
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151943
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The plane passes the runway, dips sharply, its shadow straight down below, too cold in the cabin, the sun hitting your arm like a machete below, it is 94, the humidity too, it has just rained for 3 days, it never rains this time of year......
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15192512
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151943
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A tornado and peacock were bred in his paddock; the couple gave birth to a turquoise lasso.
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151900
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“She’s very sick. She’s dying,” and he smoothed my hair along my neck.
“It’s leukemia. A very rare type,” his hand reached my shoulder and stopped there.
“She only has a few months.”
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151984
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We may think about so many things and thoughts about rain. We may think about where it is going, where it comes from.
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151811
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Behold! Passion fruit!Aureolin sun condensedRolls off palm and tongue.Spurn taut rounded skinWait for wrinklesRipeness revealed, resplendent —The pinnacle of worth.
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151832
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I used to be a poet, you know. /
Better, in many respects, than you.
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151852
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Once there was a man who wrote in code. He was comfortable among substitutions
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151821
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I don't know what I'd expected from the week of mourning after my mother died but I sure hadn't pictured this marathon cocktail party. Our house is packed with people, food, booze and borrowed chairs. People I haven't seen in years keep turning up with casseroles.I'm…
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15181410
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My grandfather was ninety three. My mother was sixty three. I was thirty three. My daughter had just turned three. Our ages were all lined up like the beauty marks on Snow White in the Donald Barthelme version of the story.
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151864
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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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151844
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Jenny was certain nobody saw her when she took the slinky shirt from her father's store. It was blue with buttons shaped like cherries, the fabric light as air. She balled it up in her hand. Her father owned a chain of boutiques called Body Electric. The racks were…
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151811
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A mundane endeavor depicted as a quest. Try it, you'll like it!
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151854
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this is where we end --
the exorbitant eye of forgotten days.
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151854
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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
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151800
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Sora and Ciel stood before Dean Morden inside his office. It felt weird to the girls looking at him sitting behind Madam Mayweather’s desk
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151811
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She clutched her fat rolls and tugged on a pant leg. "I'm so embarrassed! You caught me on a bad day!"
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151841
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To rival the professor in his knowledge of various body parts is impossible ...
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151887
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By the sixth - Dizz, Falstaff buzzed - Croons - The Wabash Cannonball
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151831
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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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1518108
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He knows I talk to angels, what he would call angels. I don’t talk to him.
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151721
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The Gropers of Prague were there, all around us, in spirit if not in fact. Was it KGB? Was it a ghost from my past? Or my own hand?
Stop guessing. It was Einstein himself. The KGB had taken him into custody somehow, though by what authority? All the
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151701
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She could see him doing these things but she could not hear him.
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151744
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The young boy woke to the sound of laughter. He blinked himself out of deep sleep and allowed…
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151764
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They made posters and hung them everywhere. With the passing days she became the photograph at its center: hair always in the same ponytail; always with the same smile
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151752
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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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151798
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Dressed as an English professor on Halloween
I escape the red devil and run downtown.
I go to the Art Car hangar
I dance, I swing my golden brown briefcase
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151750
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"And then I, and I believe,
I alone, saw
this small child
run..."
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1517157
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Her voice gets screechy as she talks of the boy he was caught fondling in the bathroom of a bowling alley. The worst part: the dumb schmuck doesn’t even bowl.
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