2601 3 4
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Days went by as I stood in the woods waiting for a tree to fall, and when none did, I determined the universe is cold and indifferent and that man’s only hope is to buy wood chippers.
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2600 12 9
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I'm standing outside your window with our son's fingers in my fist.
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2599 15 6
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Elvis at a Starbucks. Some graphic words.
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2599 17 11
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She is cutting his hair. The wind is in her curls. She rises and falls like a sleeping animal. He has removed his shirt. There is a towel around his neck, the smell of spice and banana, the scent of vacations. You are reminded of the time in the beach house in Florida…
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2598 27 16
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“White,” he says. -- “Black,” I answer.
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2597 0 0
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As I fed Puff, I thought about the nightmare Lily shared with me that morning. She dreamed Puff had a hole in his throat and all his blood squirted out until he got as small and skinny as a deflated baloon.
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2597 2 1
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It was twilight, and the sky was getting darker even as the lights of civilization were becoming more noticeable in the gloom. The daytime city, with its grit and dust and texture, was disappearing. Soon there would only be electric light and neon and the
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2596 11 8
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The voice in the sand: "If it has soul you must funk it."
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2596 11 6
|
Last-minute women notice me and latch on, converging in narcotized spirals, old sunflowers twisting towards a fake light. Ugly, used up people, turning like dirty snow, terrified of facing the sunlight alone, of the hour long drunken drive home.
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2595 12 11
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"So, like the Goldilocks thing…"
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2594 18 14
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2592 14 10
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I think he viewed Communion as an act of hygiene that allowed him to go on being fiery and self-determined.
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2592 3 3
|
I would roll my eyes, give one word replies or a smiley face.
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2592 4 2
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The proud, burly tree / Rests on the now crashed TV / Thanks a lot, nature
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2591 5 2
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his wife had made love to another man,
out of spite or love or to wake him from
his conventional slumber, we never learned.
We were there as a foil,
a first step towards reconciliation,
unction.
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2591 29 9
|
TRAVELING NORTH Though you are dead now. Though I walk covered in dust through this strip mall in Iowa. I remember the collection of tendencies that led me here. The flat landscape. The blazing heat of cornfields. The landscape and body are one…
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2587 1 2
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I hope I don’t have aches and pains in heaven
Cause here on Earth I ache in all my parts
These old bones don’t have the spring they used to
I sure hope heaven has electric shopping carts
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2586 12 10
|
honey/she said/with a wink/and a twinkle
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2584 0 0
|
She stood there with ladylike maturity; her eyes were frightening with an unforgiving look, visible in her tears that pierced the very core of Oryn’s heart.
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2583 2 1
|
The crowd gathered around the dying man's bed, waiting for his last words.
He was a genius. The most prolific writer and philosopher to ever live. He wiped his ass with the words of Shakespeare. The thoughts of Plato, Socrates, Descartes, and Nietzsche w
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2582 1 2
|
With Abletofly you will be able to fly
and the feeling will be overwhelming!
That’s right, Abletofly.
A few warnings and precautions are in order, however:
Don’t try to drive a car if you experience an erection lasting more than eight hours.
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2582 31 16
|
I don’t remember the name of the boy in high school
or if I cried at his funeral
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2581 10 8
|
Fritz Lang. Even before I ever met the miserable son of a bitch, with his monocle and superior airs, I hated him. In person, he was an insufferable asshole.
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2581 28 17
|
If you outlive me, she said, it won't be because I smoke but because of what you put me through when you quit.
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2581 2 1
|
He was the kind of cat who began lifting weights in the fourth grade.
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2581 4 3
|
If I play my accordion too loudly while you're painting, you complain. You stamp about in your room under mine. You fetch the broom from the closet and use it to thump vehemently on the ceiling. I feel the vibrations through my feet.
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2579 9 11
|
His feet are the size of thumbs, the segments of his toes no larger than grains of rice.
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2579 16 11
|
Their breath stank inside my lungs and tamped down the very minute amount of remorse I had left. It was replaced with contempt. Their fear warmed my cold sensibility as I steeled myself.
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2578 1 1
|
The lard-arsed ol’bastard struggling
soot-faced and yelling. . . .
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2577 7 3
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Christmas is here and there's work to do.
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