1563 8 7
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156332
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Sirens wake me, screaming warnings in the dark.
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156343
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" History ...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
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156355
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It's been a bad year, People dying. Some too close to home, Some too far away. I cry down to you, In your casket, and think you might sit up. You were not sick You went in just a moment, Looking stunning and alive. Not…
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156399
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It’s layer VII we adore/
and mourn
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156321
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Naomi hadn't expected them to come in such a big box. When the UPS man tried to hand it to her, she told him there must be some mistake, but then he pointed to her name¾NAOMI BROWN¾right there on the top. When she finally got off all that tape, she had another…
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156364
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... he could feel the pointed picket spears.
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156331
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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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156344
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A rope is cleaner,
he explains with a straight face.
He's calmed by the visual.
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156332
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The voice on the other end mumbles, not forming words, but I understand: I am to be the starting third baseman for the Detroit Tigers.
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156331
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Sheep are very philosophical, I hear. Stop this hopeless dreaming.
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156232
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I used to be a poet, you know. /
Better, in many respects, than you.
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156244
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I gave you two daughters.
I gave you four grandchildren.
I'm done.
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1562158
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We are the same shits/
we were in the Bronze Age
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156254
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. . . how a body calls
in the dark. . .
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156232
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156254
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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
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156252
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—Now that’s a hell-of-a-painting, Frank, he said. Those colors are engaged in warfare. How the hell did you do that?
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156200
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“Got a big one boy! He's movin' real fast! Don't think he has had time to eat the bait just yet, so we need to play him out. Let the hook set. Don't want to loose him! Get the net ready!”
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156265
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To listen is to feel embodied reason//
sing and dance with consummate grace
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15621812
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the epiphany at the mast at midnight is not the same at dawn
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156278
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Reprisal The bomb blew away hubris, shocked the arrogant bastards into humiliated silence. None of them had experienced hunger and they'd misjudged its effect. In the lobby of the palace, dirt, plaster, glass shifted, rumbled,…
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156287
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156100
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Mezereon’s giant dragon heart marveled at the girl’s revelations. First, he was heartsick for her and the sad state of things back where she had come to him from. Secondly, he was aghast to learn she was a princess; for even dragons know and respect r
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156141
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When I came back from California the second time, in the summer of 1965, I was the first around our town to wear my hair long, influenced by the Beatles. And I bought a bunch of blue caps that everyone in our gang wore, with the number “69” sown on
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156120
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The story of a second, a stone, and an android -- all curiously interrelated and all, coincidentally, named Gretchen
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156122
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Suddenly I'm not feeling it anymore. /
Poetry has become insufficient. /
I can't do it like I used to.
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156157
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It is claimed we choose/
conditions of our servitude.
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156165
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I know someone in need of healing.
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156143
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Ey’, it’s where I followed him down
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