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She stiffens and blusters and roars
Not like a storm,
Not like a lion.
Like a badger, caught in the steel jaws of a trap.
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137900
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Mayumi approached them; her memories of their faces from the texts they received from each other had come alive.
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137911
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Suddenly the producer, Irving, tosses a new idea into the discussion, an idea for a possible film. Then the writer, Herbert, does the talking. He performs, in fact, puts on a one-man show. The idea! The idea! It's…
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137942
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Last night we slept with books in the bed.
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137955
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where will we be/ when it happens?
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Above our bellies we are beautiful women with luscious breasts. Where there is skin, believe me, it is flawless, irresistible. Most of us have long hair, but there are some among us who keep their heads close cropped for aerodynamic…
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So do you read my writing?I text youI need to know whatyou like betterThe bloodor the gutsThat's what it is.You see Iput it out therefor you.That's not what it saysbut I know the truth.Am I smart enoughgood enoughdo you think it's crapbecause anyone can like it…
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137885
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Love me like a crutch
Love me when I'm strong
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137820
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When they tell you to choose your last meal, it probably hasn't dawned on you yet.
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137832
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A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
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137873
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I experience a presence when walking through the forest . . .
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137884
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It was cold and clammy, but then it got worse. Far worse. Any opportunity to celebrate the unity and harmony of tolerance was soon cancelled.
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137843
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Nights this husband returned home still hungry sometimes, even for her forearms against his own
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137894
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I’m not / going to change you I /promise
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137800
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You need only one who notices.
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137820
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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name
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137820
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“Have I told you this one before?”
I can’t think of one he hasn’t told me, but saying so won’t stop him. I fire up the FreeCell game, put the phone on speaker, and pour a tumbler of chardonnay.
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On Tuesday, he wears his suit to the cafe. Of course they'll let him pay! Of course. Under the table, his wife accepts their wadded bills.
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137764
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just before my break,/ he came on the line,/ old and slow with computers now/ but wanting a discount/ he'd been told he qualified for.
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137721
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In the ’70′s, Bigfoot was romantically linked with Farrah Fawcett, spotted in an Arkansas 7-11 with Elvis, and tabbed the front-runner to be Secretary of the Interior had Gerald Ford defeated Jimmy Carter.
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1377106
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gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour
and just getting under way
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137744
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people keep trying to get me/ "out of the house"./ they see fun in me, and cool in me,/ and want to spend time with me,/ and i am flattered most sincerely./
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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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137787
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137721
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Under a conspiratorial moon… the shovel my silent partner… organ-less torso to the worms.
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137711
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It's a haiku. It's its own snippet.
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137742
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I give you the rattle of the rattlesnake. I give you a daub of creosote. I give you the metaphysics of glue.
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