1349 5 6
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at all altitudes and at all latitudes /
glaciers in furious melt: / both Greenland and Antarctica headed both /
to be ice-free isles adrift / and with shorter coastlines amidst higher seas.
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134950
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Condensation on the Glass Riding down 22, I'm looking out the window. Time is a whirlwind. Your memory relinquishes itself, yellowed and fraying at the edges. It's raining and cold. I make a smiley face in the condensation …
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134932
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I advertised in the local paper for a model.
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1349135
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There were guitar players, and as happens with talent sometimes, the guitar players were too talented. There could not be places for all of them in a single rock band.
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134832
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[VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.]
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134895
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He kept
saying how my old scars
excited him to new truths
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13481510
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Someone's ass should be kicked.
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1348910
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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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134800
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You need only one who notices.
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134855
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There are certain items in the sink that are giving me an anxious feeling in my stomach.
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1348109
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I offer you a peanut butter sandwich full of unconditional love
and you say I'm being controlling, so I let you eat cake, eat cake.
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134800
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Every morning when he wakes, he lies in bed and waits for one of his toes to twitch or spasm; the moment he feels one of them thrust forward, he gains courage to test his legs. He grimaces either way: one more day of walking, one more day until loss, one more trip to the…
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134820
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“Have I told you this one before?”
I can’t think of one he hasn’t told me, but saying so won’t stop him. I fire up the FreeCell game, put the phone on speaker, and pour a tumbler of chardonnay.
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134753
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Seeking your will, instead we found, somehow, a clutch of our own documents;
folded under a rubber band gone to rot,
muddy strands nestled in the creases.
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134751
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“There are so few uses for Crisco, that to keep it in the house seems an unnecessary temptation,” said my health teacher.
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134720
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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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134720
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Stay tuned for my next short - Candle Smoke Wishes - COMING SOON ON A MONITOR NEAR YOU!!
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134783
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You have the right to be happy
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134755
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I opened the closet door and there stood Eugène Ionesco lost among our clothes.
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134731
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ghosts of the previous owners who leave a trail of whispers
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134787
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1347154
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It was a dire and dun-colored year when groupies wept and autograph seekers put down their pens.
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134773
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edge of wolf howls and howls past sunflowers and skeletons
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134721
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My third Rule of Success—and I may not have these in exactly the right order–is always get a pre-nup!
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134720
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Half past six; already, through the gloom Saltwater flourish sifts from wharfs that ply Their play like girls that haunt the midnight's womb, As far it seems as walks of Barbary. Within the bar, French waitresses and sots Play dice with time awhile and rub…
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134785
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1I'VE BEEN looking though books of paintings and I've been thinking …
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134721
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His touch, even now, seemed to set off tremors inside her.
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134755
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where will we be/ when it happens?
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1347104
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Every day, a fresh new/
strain of Hell reveals itself
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134741
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That is the question,
not to be or not to be
Life, death, whether to be,
all that is superfluous
in the face of laughter
and how to achieve it
under extraordinary circumstances
like not drinking anymore
I’m afraid not all the alcoh
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