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He looked like a black paper doorway pasted onto a painting of summer.
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132854
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“We could dooble date,” he said.
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132852
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Once there was a man who wrote in code. He was comfortable among substitutions
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1328106
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gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour
and just getting under way
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132800
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Two women are escorted to the desert, where they are shackled to the ground. Who are they, what have the done, and will they survive?
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132820
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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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132800
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“We are NOT starving!” I stated emphatically. “What ever gave you the idea that you are starving? Honestly, Annie, you are so melodramatic. You have food in front of you right now, don’t you?’ I said pointing to her plate of potatoes and so
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sometimes it's hard/ to leave the house in the morning/ when bed is so comfortable/ and you're so far away.
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132886
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There are stranded people just like us, that's Not necessarily what I'm looking for. Negativity won't pull us through the Barbed-wire halls of hate. And even if I Was the only one, I wouldn't want you To look any different in the mirror. I'm older …
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132800
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He rolls in unbidden across the stubble fields /
Old acquaintance astride a newly booming cloud/
Under sky an alien shade of strawberries whipped/
Her watch stops ticking out the rest of her/
scheduled breathing poses
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All the things that are his.
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Rises monstrous out of the Baltoro GlacierPlaying poker with oxygen levelsPlays leap frog with embolisms.Malice and vanity join forces somurder guns the air even beforethe Death Zone. Down suits, bold and cockyregisters the climber's ambitions. The Serac , a…
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132885
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1I'VE BEEN looking though books of paintings and I've been thinking …
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We’ve already agreed on a date when Jack posts some new pictures of himself. I have to swallow. Hard. In four days Jack’s become twenty years older!
On Thursday, a boyish thirty-something was smiling at me from my PC. This Monday I find myself stari
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She's an obese woman whose clothes don't fit: shirts that ride up too high her belly hanging out her pants suctioned to her strangely pegged legs. Her ballooned cheeks are always chapped pink her lips little slivers peeled back over small beige teeth like…
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132832
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I advertised in the local paper for a model.
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She thinks this is the place she dreamed
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He draped the sheet over her body. Blood spotted the fabric, rose petals on snow.He left the pistol, but pocketed the first edition she'd signed. Part of his fee.In the park, he ditched the glasses, fake mustache, and anorak before making the call.The publisher called an…
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132732
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I used to be a poet, you know. /
Better, in many respects, than you.
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the honesty of bodies & the lies hidden under skin.
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You think there’s a chance the bag could be holding a severed head, or live or dead kittens.
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Oh, you aren't going to lecture us, for heaven's sake?
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His shirts he hangs on the back of the chair, one on top the other so they won't wrinkle.
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132741
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You can't always be everything
you were expected to be
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The marble, it's just there.
I can't explain
how it got there
(or when),
all I know
is that everything
is in that marble.
By "everything,"
I mean every
thing. Your breakfast?
It's there.
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132700
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I was sleeping in a pile of teenage bodies soft limb spread over soft thin limb.
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132794
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William Shakespeare (a surname that meant "wanker" back in the day, by the way)
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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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Could I really seduce and rob a total stranger -- just on a dare?
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