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and, once in a rare while,/
actual pearls.
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145442
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Years ago, I was involved in a freakish tragedy so startling and heartbreaking that it made the front page of not only my local newspaper, but “People” and “The National Enquirer.” I'm not going to tell you anything about it. This means that…
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145434
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Consider this. Only a sentence ago we were complete strangers, oceans of time, distance and thought between us.
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145455
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There are certain items in the sink that are giving me an anxious feeling in my stomach.
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145451
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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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14541010
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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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145421
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His touch, even now, seemed to set off tremors inside her.
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His eyes are wide then narrow and brown. Hers are gray then they look away, toward the back door where a delivery driver has walked in, carrying a tray. Nothing is going to happen today.
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145332
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today on the bus/ a man in his fifties/ smiled at a baby/
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145373
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the sun is quiet like the mountains,
the birds except for their wings
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1453157
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Got something inside me
hard as nails
keeps me walking upright
ain't never failed
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145386
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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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145330
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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145311
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But the profligate are blameless now
Those who conflate sex and love the way
dumber animals mistake heat for light
have moved freely back to some primal zone
where if I’m felt to be contradictory to the
surroundings it’s because I wanted t
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145388
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Able to search through centuries, I click, scribble, skim,resurrect wet stone walls, the smell of burning peat.Bob's your uncle; Peggy's your aunt.Name your family, child. My brother said helloto Uncle Shirley and Aunt Greg. I was more…
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145394
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I’m not / going to change you I /promise
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philanthropy corrugated with a smirk / printed aside every cardboard box and room / every cardboard house with every cardboard door.
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145300
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The first apartment Troy and Lynn lived in was managed by an alcoholic former army officer, who lived in the complex with his wife and teenage daughter. He was a lush who didn't do much in the way of management. Lynn had barely noticed him before Troy moved in with her.…
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1453103
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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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1453159
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Conjure calamity and calamity comes.
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145321
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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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145312
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His wings, like tiny shoots, grew a season in an instant. The pain was gone now. He rose up as effortlessly as centaurs run, as angels fly. "I will sing your name as my brother among my brothers," the Seraph promised. Kladius watched the beasts below
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145377
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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145232
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I am not responsible for any nightmares this piece may cause for all you mice lovers!
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145264
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The heart would have unnatural reverence, exalted, bursting with evil, rolling in sloth, if it did not at once reveal its innocence. I saw you again, on the morning of the sun. It was you, or your double, or a son you might have had. Your beautiful bloo
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1452117
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Names are forbidden here. So is apology.
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145297
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This is the Minuteman tine/
of the three-tined fork//
we can stick into the modern world/
when it’s done-- a MAD triad.
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1452165
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As the music concludes, I'm finally in control of my emotions . . .
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145254
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A study found that in bat species noted for female monogamy male bats have small testes and big brains, while in species noted for female promiscuity males have testicles five times as big, but smaller brains.
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145210
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Wile E. Coyote? A junkie strung out on bunk dope.
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