1440 7 3
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Shit, I guess I'm gonna hafta
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1440 5 1
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A dead deer on the side of the road and the older boys not listening to her as they stab its eye with a stick.
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1440 10 3
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I am confused by your new paper-doll look, btw. Could you please look regular again by Thursday?
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1440 15 9
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Conjure calamity and calamity comes.
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Only fragments of their lives survive, like broken Sapphos. I have known them, alleged killer of themselves for the love of a man., but we know this is an invention. The leader of a whole guild of girls, who wrote 7 books of poems. What happened to them
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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.
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I can do the hot coals, no problem.
Or, your love, eyes closed.
Or your sneer, spank,
suffering, resentment, rejection.
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1439 7 4
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these tender girls tears recent / with stained souls, brides of dead, / cadaverous Erebus; unguarded ladder / long the down going…came Anticlea then
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1439 5 5
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Gnarly Berger was born in a guitar case in Istanbul. His mother was an Iranian singer from Israel accompanied by a Turkish santur player & a French guitarist (Gnarly's biological father) and into whose guitar case Gnarly entered this world, somewhat by accident,…
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1439 4 4
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Robert Frost told me that life goes on, but that’s just not good enough for me and for God’s sake it shouldn’t be good enough for you either, should it?
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1439 15 8
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We are the same shits/
we were in the Bronze Age
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1439 9 8
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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.
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1439 9 5
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He kept
saying how my old scars
excited him to new truths
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1439 3 3
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The idea of an infinite textual universe occurs in many places in the works of Jorge Luis Borges. The contexts and permutations of language, which others had held to be perhaps infinite (allowing themselves to use such an imprecise term), that…
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1439 1 0
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My bones will rob me blind, corpuscle by corpuscle.
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1439 9 6
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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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1439 3 2
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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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1439 2 1
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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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1439 5 5
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This was not the bar that the artist usually frequented.
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1439 1 1
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I knew we were going to fail. The night we met, when we got out of the car, I dropped my green glove in that puddle, you picked it up but it was ruined. That set the precedent for our whole life together. You can't look at me anymore. My cigarette…
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1439 0 0
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To a tech-savvy millennial, the definition of progress is a hands-free blowjob, and the real number is not how many men you’ve been with but how many minutes you’ve made them wait.
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1439 6 4
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I wonder if she is my real mother, if I could get one of those paternity tests and find out if she’s my real mother and if the guy she told me was my father was really my father. I can’t remember him very well, just a lot of him screaming and hollering an
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1439 6 4
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Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.
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1439 5 3
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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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1438 2 1
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Despite the newly bright bricks and the working clock, Cassie couldn't help but take a deep breath before entering King Street Station. She had always tried to hold her breath when her family cut through it on the way to Mariners games but had never succeeded, not…
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Now, we can argue about how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, but there is no doubt that it takes eight spritzes of Scrubbing Bubbles bathroom cleaner, three spritzes of Lime-Away, and then a 30 second spray of Oust to incapacitat
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1438 5 2
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Not to...Witness such sufferingWatch as a life fades awayReceive the callAttend this funeralBe surrounded by well meaning family and friendsStand by helplessly as my father sobs in his brother's armsNotice the pain settle in my brother's eyesSee my grandparents' tortured,…
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1438 4 4
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The young boy woke to the sound of laughter. He blinked himself out of deep sleep and allowed…
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1438 2 0
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"We gotta find a way to get high!" "Shh! My parents will hear you Tommy! Their bed is right above us." …
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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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