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This was not the bar that the artist usually frequented.
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1507 5 5
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where will we be/ when it happens?
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There is a roofer straddling part of our house, pushing shingles off of our roof with the edge of a shovel. …. I've thought seriously, at times, about becoming a nurse. Seeing your mother in a hospital bed, hooked up to a tube, more than one, too…
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You can tell your doctor the truth
Even if no one else will stop and listen
He or she may have a balm for it
To help make it go away
Or at least go into remission
Remission is the staging area for Lies
Corporate and otherwise
We don’t have
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I love Hooters. Best cheese steak in town in my opinion.
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I am i said pursued by the feeling of being watched.You are she said -- by yourself. As in a dream, a dream you know you're dreaming. Which changes nothing.We are she said watching from the mezzanine, half-above, at once a part and apart.
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1506 4 1
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Ben was not a happy musician.
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I learned how to fall in love, in one hour, watching The Waltons. John Boy fell in love with Jenny. Jenny fell in love with John Boy. It taught me the right way to fall in love. It taught me the right way to let love go. I was 12 years old. It was a lesson I…
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After becoming single at age 62, I joined an online dating site. After a year of perusing profiles and meeting men for coffee, staying single is starting to look better and better to me. But I've stayed on the site, in part for the pure enjoyment of…
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Names are forbidden here. So is apology.
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1506 3 2
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My pain is a black pearl hidden in a clean shell.
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1506 6 2
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The laptop has ruined the sanctity of the library. And so I get up and go see Queen Jane.
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1506 2 1
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I came to a field where, scattered around, were quite a few men digging holes
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1506 2 0
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I can’t deny you’re beautiful, though it’s unsure how many of your defects are fudged by my myopia.
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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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1506 1 0
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Wile E. Coyote? A junkie strung out on bunk dope.
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1506 2 1
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they flew down the slopes
with her holding on
for all she was worth
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1506 0 0
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I play in the dirt with cattle bones
while Mother rattles the sky.
She tells me I have my fathers eyes.
The words come through bloody fissures in her lips.
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1506 1 0
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She lay there, skin and bones, unable to speak. Little did we know those were our last moments togethter. How cruel for her, to want to share a lifetime of thoughts and feelings in those waning moments only to be robbed of the chance. My brother and I…
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1506 0 0
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Early in the morning
I wanted to send you something
for when you wake;
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Jane knew what to do
when she heard murmurs in the ceiling,
knew what to do when she struck out on the moor.
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A walled city doesn’t let you out any more easily that it has let you in earlier.
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leaves, starlings and other words fall into thickets of orange or green grasses or tendrils or snakes
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A dark and mysterious account of an ancient traveler seeking arcane literature, and the miserable results to him after he receives what he sought.
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1505 10 5
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Cultivate your vaginal tears
at the gates of Thigh and Holy.
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It is your music that makes me want to crack open my ribcage and rip out my heart as it still beats, to cauterize my carotids, and shove the mechanical insides of a clock into my thoracic cavity.
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He invited her in for a Martini and she graciously accepted.
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I couldn’t parse the grammar of her body
nor decode the secret softness of her neck.
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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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