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When Chuck dies, I’ll throw/
a party and dance, a little drunk,/
across what I’ll pretend/
is the old shit’s grave.
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107100
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When I was a very little girl—I was five—my mother and a black gentleman she was incarcerated with broke out of a mental institution and kidnapped me.
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1071127
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I need some fantastic news. I need some happy news. I need to feel happy. Need Fantastic Need Fantastical Need News Need Happy need happy news make happy news happy make ake
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107196
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Because we cannot know, we keep walking, keep getting up each morning, feeding the cat, drinking coffee. Because we cannot know I'm drinking coffee that morning in Thailand, not on the beach but just off, because there is only one spot where you can get real coffee,…
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107086
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Two days ago the equation worked so hard it shone.
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1070109
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My student assistant was a comely young woman. A freckle faced blonde. She was from Ohio.
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10701210
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107000
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Two women are escorted to the desert, where they are shackled to the ground. Who are they, what have the done, and will they survive?
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107040
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He saw his mother standing over him, and he called out to her for help, but she only laughed and faded into the paper towel dispenser.
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107041
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107000
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Bruce Springsteen begins singing from the loud speaker he was bruised and battered and couldn’t tell what he felt.
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1070109
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Only last Friday, he was introduced/
around, smiling, healthy,/
a fine young man.
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107054
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. . . how a body calls
in the dark. . .
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107064
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In a field of barley, I see you, ...
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107033
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This is a warrant for your arrest.
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107032
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"I'm just going to
take a power nap!"
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107035
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Does God feel the same way /
whenever you practice your indifference toward me
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107021
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“What the fuck!” Duke muttered, amazed at what he was seeing in the darkened store. A thin curtain of smoke was rising from under the baseboard like an inverted waterfall. It stretched the entire length of the left wall. Holy shit, the joint's on fire! I…
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107076
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Here the three o'clock sun is an old patched up fellow, with a stained yellow beard, walking in a small crispy rain of brown leaves, looking at something that requires a bit of squinting no one else can see, on the far side of the softening…
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107098
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Pinesatz is standing again. He and Marie seem unaware of time, unaware that Louane is watching them, unaware of waiting for Wendy with the car. Every glance is a hook. Every gleam is a glance. Every stanza is a room. She vies for it.
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107064
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I woke up to the humming
of an empty space in the shape of a sweatshirt,
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107087
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Downtown Milwaukee My feet are exposed, never been out in public even out here— …
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107045
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Today I’m feeling crabby and haggard and technology makes it easy to get to the point.
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107055
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I'm not sure whetherI drink to numbthe pain or toactually feelsomething.
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107073
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At last, we learn if Blow has the cojones to fight.
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107021
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My cousin and I walked around the village at night. It was beginning to rain, but we walked on. She had a jacket. I didn’t because of course. She said: “Sometimes I just want to know if he’s settling or he’s really in love with me.”
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1069117
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The condemned, arrested/
and convicted as a consequence/
of cheerlessness, must be prepared
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106931
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Esmée sat alone at a table on the terrace at Marina Jack’s in Sarasota. She had been there ten minutes and no waitress had approached her.
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1069113
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She called for land usage to fulfill a social function, to provide an affordable and sustainable way of life for all.
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106910
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Flicking through the sheets on her clipboard, Evelyn double checked the address with the mismatched numbers on the letterbox. Its mouth was a rusty, gaping grin like it had lost its dentures.
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