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Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
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133154
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133151
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1. Research how to locate and outline the chin of a toy terrier. Find a toy terrier, outline its chin, then count the hairs on said chin to determine the number of lines your poem will have.
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133121
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His touch, even now, seemed to set off tremors inside her.
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1331104
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Every day, a fresh new/
strain of Hell reveals itself
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133043
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Her son was doubtless the biggest wanksta that ever went to Andrew Jackson in the whole crumby history of the school.
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133001
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Galloping people, tangled in ballets of hot love, weaving in and out, making a canvas of it.
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133010
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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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133076
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I almost caught a poet today.
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133044
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Ok, ok, people are forever asking me, so why did I cross the frickin’ road? Dumb-shit me, of course. Consequences waaay unforseen.
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133021
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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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133044
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So for now, let the snow fall, but
let it fall gently,
each flake as a soft piano note
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133099
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It’s layer VII we adore/
and mourn
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133062
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We’re going to talk about our future like the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40. Like there are 40 great songs this week about our future.
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133000
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And God said unto the oil can: “Thou art cursed above the cattle, and above every beast of the field. And deep the ground shalt thou go.”
“Mother,” said the oil can, “fucker!”
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133000
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You need only one who notices.
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133023
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say no / to me / and devastate me / and I will take it / as god's will / to drown me / in a vat / of my own / entrails
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133011
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Pen or sword? Pick one/choose your battles carefully/for the paths oppose
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13301010
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I told her I didn't love her. She said love wasn't important; she wanted to marry a man she could respect.
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133042
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Last night we slept with books in the bed.
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133010
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I leapt up to retaliate when the clang of a distant door quieted my retesance. Shit, why am I so popular? I guess it was my turn to be thrown around like the guy in the Hotdog suit on the corner... Don't shoot the "Hotdog" guy... Please, please don't
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133087
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133055
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I'm not sure whetherI drink to numbthe pain or toactually feelsomething.
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133020
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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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1330135
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There were guitar players, and as happens with talent sometimes, the guitar players were too talented. There could not be places for all of them in a single rock band.
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132900
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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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132941
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No matter how bad his hair turned out or how avocado shaped one of those miscreants could make his head look, he would remain silent.
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132932
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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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132975
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The pool deck was covered with the bloody footprints of resident gawkers.
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132931
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There is a the reason for the theft of people and the melting of gold
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