1322 10 7
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and where have the years sped
how distant was your youth
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132294
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I’m not / going to change you I /promise
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132210
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Talking to Shakespeare by the riverside,
I am saddened by my lust for women,
how my eyes fixate on the spit that passes from top to bottom lip as they talk to me.
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132200
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You need only one who notices.
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132287
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...coming into that bone yard, you just hang a right, go on past La Fontaine, and take a left a bit further on. Jimbo's right up in there.
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132232
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Mother told me that I would go to the moon. But she did not tell me that on Diwali night, the moon hid himself on the other side of the sky.
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132255
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I'm not sure whetherI drink to numbthe pain or toactually feelsomething.
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1321105
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an engine stalls out
in the parking lot
the driver
tears her skirt
coming through the door
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132100
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I traced the vein that rose in her temple when she got angry all the way along her body until it ashed out varicosely on her smooth calf.
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132132
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Michiko stood in front of Steinway Hall on West 57th Street.
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132176
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I almost caught a poet today.
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132121
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The man could be a total brute, though the truth was he had the softest of hearts too. A real gentle giant. But get him going on a drunk jag with too much ouzo in his system, and look out.
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132141
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Wicklow sat in the handicapped stall, pants down and straining, fed up to here with a world in which he couldn’t even take a decent crap.
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132132
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A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
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132153
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Any form of exertion would defile what we are trying to do
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132190
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Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.
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132111
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You’re listening to Smooth FM, taking you from the darkest hours to the start of a brand new day.
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132162
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Mom stayed up all night again Tending to her papers Pushing them around Trying to make order of the debts, the dreams and the obligations She couldn't get the columns to add up, So she shuffled them around some more and Rearranged the piles …
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132142
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Last night we slept with books in the bed.
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132000
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Rome and Carthage wage war as Hannibal crosses the Alps and invades Italy. With him, he brings an army of barbarian hordes hellbent on reducing Rome to ash. For one young Roman soldier, Gaius, he is trapped between his loyalties to the republic, and to hi
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132010
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The doctors said, when she was born, that the gills would eventually fade away on their own. Nothing to fear, they said; no more unusual than the rare child born with a tail, or a dense pelt of fur, or a single sharp tooth jutting from its new pink gums.
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132022
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At a candlelit table near the back of the restaurant, Jack and Lois greeted the waiter as he delivered their drinks, a diet coke for him, and for her, a vodka and cranberry. He apologized for the slow bar service and promised to return in a moment to take their…
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132054
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. . . how a body calls
in the dark. . .
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132098
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6. to register for the draft
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132098
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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.
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132032
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The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the Magazine of the Museum of Everything
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132000
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Fat Patty sniffs the delicate waft of peat and sidles over, proffering a grope in exchange for a few wet-lipped swigs. Hell yes.
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1320125
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Monday will come soon enough to get/
what needs to be done, done.
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132055
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It's been a bad year, People dying. Some too close to home, Some too far away. I cry down to you, In your casket, and think you might sit up. You were not sick You went in just a moment, Looking stunning and alive. Not…
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132075
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