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He painted a woman on them, identical to the woman that kneeled by his bed.
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149711
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Pen or sword? Pick one/choose your battles carefully/for the paths oppose
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149742
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Blankets were always her undoing.
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149764
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Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.
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149643
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Let me swim into your eyes. Let me show you my world. My album. My Albania. My albumen.
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149696
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A break from bleak world history and events...
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149630
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Roanne, just out of jail, went to cop. That is, she went to beg fat little Freddy the dopeman to front her once more. She'd have to fuck Freddy, of course, but, well, maybe he'd wait until after this time. Likely not…
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149620
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Ruth carries always a small bottle of nitroglycerin; and tissues, wads of tissues; two Tums (for calcium, she tells me)...
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A man of action would take to his rake/
but Sloth would rather watch and wait/
for snow to erase each leaf on leaf.
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149665
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When I slip through the seams I return to the same place.
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149600
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He woke up four hours later in his car in his garage with the worst headache of his life. He lurched out of the car and kicked over a basket of basil as he toddled towards the door to the house. He stopped and scooped the spilled basil back into the baske
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1496138
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He bought damaged and used sex dolls online.
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149644
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On a street-lit night in Jeddah.
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149610
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Marcy was not herself today, her mother said when the school called. She was under the weather and she could not play with the other children. Marcy's mother began to suspect that her daughter was not herself very early on that day. Walking up the stairs Dolores…
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149662
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your light is gonna
last me
through the week
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149677
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I could put on some music, but it just pushes me further away from you, so it seems. It takes me out far beyond the safety breakers and then reintroduces me to my own splashing two-fisted fear of swimming. You can swim through …
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149652
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If there was another way to describe emptiness, I'd word the endlessness of the sky, of the ocean at low tide.
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149632
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Being an uncredited bonus composition, written in the sublimest access of divine afflatus this poet believes his lyric verse has ever known. “In olden times, dark was not counted fair”: Those were the words, I think, of some old poet. …
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149641
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I'm in the boardroom, downtown in San Francisco. I don't even remember showing up for work today. I hope they fire me, just like they fired Bill. Well not exactly like that, that was awful. He was caught downloading a phenomenal amount of…
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149665
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To listen is to feel embodied reason//
sing and dance with consummate grace
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149564
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just before my break,/ he came on the line,/ old and slow with computers now/ but wanting a discount/ he'd been told he qualified for.
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149500
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If I remember him at all it’s because I decided not to flunk him so he could graduate. I had this theory that teachers should be bound by the same oath as doctors, First, do no harm.
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149501
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Galloping people, tangled in ballets of hot love, weaving in and out, making a canvas of it.
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149541
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No matter how bad his hair turned out or how avocado shaped one of those miscreants could make his head look, he would remain silent.
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149586
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It was your present world that seemed more than mad to me. Your polished stiff brown shoes that always squeaked like mice, while the latest rude Bombers bubbled up in their comfortable Dart-board garages like apple pies…
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14951711
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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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149575
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The pool deck was covered with the bloody footprints of resident gawkers.
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149510
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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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