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Oh my god - A plagiarizing pony - I know someone must have said that before
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147932
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He painted a woman on them, identical to the woman that kneeled by his bed.
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147944
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we were traveling on wasn't necessarily going to go careening over any hill as fast as it was smashing into the blunt end of another cloudless hole like a cartoon cat chasing a cartoon mouse. It was huge like a stone wall that had its own…
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Laurel's new bike is powder blue, with silver tassels on the handle bars. Jenny's mouth actually waters at the sight of it, as though it were a fresh loaf of bread or a perfect, juicy orange. “You can ride it if you want,” Laurel…
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147911
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My mother gave her all to convince him to be a politician. My sister begged on bleeding knees for him to give her head. I just needed somebody to help me find things.
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147955
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In my 14 to 15 year old life in the late 50s I worked as a clean-up boy in the neighborhood butcher shop up on 5th. Ave.,
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147998
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We can’t just bomb Berlin or Dresden,/
Nagasaki or Hanoi, to make things safe
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the mother tells her child the flashes at the horizonare fireworks, not bombs, so he will not be afraid.at night he curls by the door or else he follows her to a different place. he is quiet, then. as if he knows the secret challenge.better if he and all the others…
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147886
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At some point we all reach the end point/
of something. Something important/
if only to our fragile self esteem.
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147851
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you'd do him more of a favor to kill him, than place upon him the burden of such an abrupt change in travel plans.
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147896
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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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1478128
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Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
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My brother Herb married his high school sweetheart right after completing college. This was a girl named Beryl, whom he'd met originally in Mr. Reinert's marching band at York High School in Elmhurst. I remember one day in particular in the middle of the
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147832
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The Italian was late. She was supposed to come into the store, meet him in the back, and arrange to take the last of his liquor.
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147864
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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.
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147888
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I attended the burial of our affair when I found the notebook-maybe it should be called her diary-she had foolishly forgotten, leaving it on the deck of my beach house where she stayed while I was on that short trip to Chicago and I was numbed at first, unsure how to…
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1478105
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I like it best when I wake up
And the wild rain of dreaming ends.
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147850
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Flicking the cigarette into the river the man's face becomes soft, as if waving goodbye to the only real attachment that he has felt in decades.
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147843
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The first of the fires that started by the river in the abandoned mills were so hot they burned white and pale blue
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147721
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My eyes are wide open. I look like a graphic novel. My world is black and white. I’m poorly drawn. All sounds have an exclamation point.
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147732
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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147733
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The cover features Lincoln as a woman. Lincoln as a woman is not a thing of beauty.
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147700
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He then spent his walk home to his single apartment spitting up various textures of red, combinations of cherry and blood mostly.
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147710
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"Maybe…" he began searching for some comforting wisdom. "Maybe it's like this. Husbands live for their wives. Mothers live for their children. And children...well...until they're husbands or wives, they live for themselves."
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147700
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Hits start, enters numbers, runs the program / Does this again one hundred times / Then takes a break
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He doesn't call, not even on her birthday. She doesn't mention it or complain. She knows she doesn't have it as bad as some, even in this privileged Triangle of North Carolina. She is white and pretty and belongs to what's left of the middle…
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She lay there, skin and bones, unable to speak. Little did we know those were our last moments togethter. How cruel for her, to want to share a lifetime of thoughts and feelings in those waning moments only to be robbed of the chance. My brother and I…
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I was in life, in my dream. I was feeling around underneath your clothing. My fingers were shining in the underwater afterlife of memory, searching for those lovely nipple-sized mollusks. I lived in a land somewhere between the past and the future. Now
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