1521 11 7
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152121
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Smiling at stones and chunks of earth pounding in...
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152131
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'Every raindrop sounds different.' says Barney. He's bouncing along beside his mother, twisting in her hand like warm milk. She looks down at his Big Bear hat and tugs. They wait together at the edge of the busy road. 'How do they sound?' 'Zzzing.…
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152132
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I didn't feel when you cut out my spine I'd been throwing up all night couldn't even smell the rust …
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152142
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Blankets were always her undoing.
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152132
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Sebastian and Janice had been a natural match. They sought to deny this at first because a recovery assistance program was not a place to forge intimate relationships. It worked out wonderfully in Hollywood, but Hollywood, as everyone knew, was just a facade. So…
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152133
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The leaves/
seek reunion with the ground//
and leave the oak tree naked/
in December’s cold.
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152190
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Of flowers there Are none In June No sun Upon my cheek The gentle breeze Stirs me not The smiles They cloud my vision Birds they Sing their songs But I hear Them not When tears Rain down My heaven.
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152134
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Carl’s peculiarity of toilet paper rolls is not covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act – he’s looked it up.
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1521810
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The floor dissolves beneath us, pierced by lasered/
glare of countless eye-beams.
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152021
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An excellent plan. Just like old times.
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152010
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In the United States of America children everywhere are waiting for summer vacation. To a child in the United States, there is summer vacation and then there is everything else. Summer vacation is freedom. The united states was built on the foundation that one day we will…
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152044
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152052
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Have you ever seen a body of words give birth to a paragraph? I won't lie. It's a little gross. But quite moving. First there is the biology of reproduction. A blackbird living in an electric guitar, for instance, and its inexplicable urge to mate with an elephant.…
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1520107
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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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15201711
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Neither of us thought of real winning. We set about brilliant losing, dark angel forms of luck and greed, the desire, the craving, the need to lose so strenuous that one wins; we tied at thirteen.
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152054
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. . . how a body calls
in the dark. . .
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152000
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“We are NOT starving!” I stated emphatically. “What ever gave you the idea that you are starving? Honestly, Annie, you are so melodramatic. You have food in front of you right now, don’t you?’ I said pointing to her plate of potatoes and so
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152000
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A life in NYC was one I always dreamed of but I found myself turning into a bitter, sarcastic person who was losing the ability to see the silver lining in just about anything.
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152087
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152031
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152030
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blackberry pie and huckleberry wine and litte Maria with her summerset bangs
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152086
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What the spaces say//
can be heard in the short/
and longer silences
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151944
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I gave you two daughters.
I gave you four grandchildren.
I'm done.
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1519115
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The smell of garlic, soy, and onions/
exhausted from Skillman Wok/
perfumes December air.
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151941
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151940
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There are songs I know to not listen to when I am alone.
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1519910
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So where does that leave me, Roscoe Loomis wondered, dismounting his silver, aluminum steed in his sweat-soaked, spandex outfit, and, clearing the saliva from his beard he walked over, checked and smiled, learning that the bike track's timing unit showed it was Roscoe's…
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151900
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Hits start, enters numbers, runs the program / Does this again one hundred times / Then takes a break
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151943
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" History ...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
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