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When he leans back from the telescope through which he had been looking, he sports a derby and a Hercule Poirot moustache.
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142256
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In my day, you could buy a polythene bag of cigarette butts for 5p. And everyone had a proper haircut.In my day, plumbers gave free vasectomies whilst reciting patriotic poems. And all the buses were red.In my day, there was always more than enough sex to go round, with…
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142285
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Love me like a crutch
Love me when I'm strong
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142254
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. . . how a body calls
in the dark. . .
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142298
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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.
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142230
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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142263
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In that time when the trunk was getting cleared out and when it became only the empty shell of what had once been so important, many things hit the match. She burned an old black negligee, a picture competing with the likes of a Vargas girl and other thin
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142265
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how the world is constantlyrevolving her mirroredorbs around the roomlooking for someone tohypnotize, a goddesshell-bent on catching agoon to mortal with; andas you lie from behindyourself so shall she lie withyou. Now, do you reallywant my answer to…
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142294
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I’m not / going to change you I /promise
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1422159
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Conjure calamity and calamity comes.
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142287
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142222
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1421107
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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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1421179
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In the next week or two, the red oak/
will loose and lose its leaves
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142111
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Like a distant memory of past expectations
I wander through past journeys, delineations
chew on the fresh air like a discontented Wordsworth
now free, free to roam where I will..
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142110
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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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142173
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I experience a presence when walking through the forest . . .
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1421179
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let’s press our words into the clay/
in language so completely dead/
we have to re-imagine it.
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142133
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Where we’ve penned heart shaped question marks, seeds sprouting bowed heads, a congregation of confused supplicants.
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142196
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"It was one kiss. No tongue. What does that even mean?" Lindley tried to see Leah as any other patient, "What do you want it to mean?" "I don't know," Leah whined, tears welling, "something, maybe. You know I hate surprises." Her sister was not another…
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142163
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so many bills to pay
the list keeps shedding its skin like a snake
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1421103
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Words are looking ever so strange today
like a hole in space
a wind in a cloud
a face superimposed over a mountain
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142134
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Ascent/Assent
Together the horizon/
Catechism of love
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142154
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Uzma dashes up the stairs ahead of me . . .
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142166
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Rises monstrous out of the Baltoro GlacierPlaying poker with oxygen levelsPlays leap frog with embolisms.Malice and vanity join forces somurder guns the air even beforethe Death Zone. Down suits, bold and cockyregisters the climber's ambitions. The Serac , a…
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142173
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At last, we learn if Blow has the cojones to fight.
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142153
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“There is a fine line between love and hatred.” This was what his closest friend, Bob Sanders, had said to him many years ago. And it had finally and irrevocably proven to be so.
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142031
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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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gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour
and just getting under way
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