1450 5 2
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145052
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We talk of his time in the jungle.
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145011
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He roared back at her, shaking his empty gun in his right hand, waving his left hand in the air. “I am George Burnett, esquire, late of Balliol College, Oxford! I am a hunter, a killer of pigs! I do not fear you, bear; take the pig and be content!”
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145053
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Any form of exertion would defile what we are trying to do
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145000
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The young man pulls out his wallet, grabs a couple of bills and stops short of handing them to the bedraggled man. “So how do I know you’re not going to go out and buy some crack with this money?”
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145084
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It was cold and clammy, but then it got worse. Far worse. Any opportunity to celebrate the unity and harmony of tolerance was soon cancelled.
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145021
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Soon the world is on film that is burning.
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1450169
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The blood is memorable/
as is the copper taste of that/
momentary certainty of lockjaw.
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145020
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I can’t deny you’re beautiful, though it’s unsure how many of your defects are fudged by my myopia.
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145074
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The stain upon / many others cannot be discerned.
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145021
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—Can you handle a threesome? said Isabella.
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1450116
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fanned lashes on rouged cheek
a glamorous sea creature
in violet perfume
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145095
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We got a sandwich at Mr. Pickle's, but they cut the sandwich in the plastic. Plastic wrap.
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145012
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I was an alcoholic for ten years, starting in my early twenties and continuing into my thirties. Then finally, after many attempts, I got myself straightened out. My son's birth finally did it for me. It wasn't like a switch flipped in the delivery room…
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145071
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145087
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The winter’s too warm for the bears to sleep,
and they get up in the middle of the night
with insomnia and wander about the streets
in their pajamas, knocking over garbage cans,
looking for a midnight snack of some kind.
They’re getting kind o
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145032
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...the relatives didn't seem nearly as fucked up as she thought they would be considering...
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1450126
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144957
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It is claimed we choose/
conditions of our servitude.
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144911
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Ten-year-old Bobby Akins learned that a shotgun shell struck on its brass end with a hammer can indeed take out the left eye of an eight-year-old brother observing the proceedings close by.
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144900
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Fat Patty sniffs the delicate waft of peat and sidles over, proffering a grope in exchange for a few wet-lipped swigs. Hell yes.
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144955
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There’s someone in the audience who is immolating himself
Cutting his own leg over and over with a pen knife
And groaning: “Oh God, oh God”
And all I can think from up at the podium is
This guy must absolutely hate these poems
I am reading
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144933
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two pairs of arms and legs
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144953
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God’s hearing aid is missing
And apparently needs an enormous battery
But no one has the
heart to tell Him
because who wants to be
shouting at God?
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144900
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Mayumi noticed everything moving in real time. Everyone just stared and a woman approached her to see if she was okay. Once Mayumi felt the woman’s hand touch her shoulder, her skin crawled and she ran.
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144943
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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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144922
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what was she like you ask? smarter than me for instance she could type alot faster. and she didn’t worry constantly about being poor or having a family looking over her shoulder. maybe that’s what she did with boys. 17 years later and she is in my bed
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144976
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144965
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I found a diseased fish / wedged between some boulders near the pier
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144998
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You snore and the house is safe again.
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