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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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149433
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Amanda Palmer's explaining the eyebrow thing. An altercation with someone at Roadrunner, or maybe old boyfriend shit to burn— She's animated but he's losing signal, filling in the blanks himself. Whatever, it won't light at first, and then WHUMP and she…
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149433
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149432
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...he was suddenly and hazily relieved that he had something in Persepolis and blue agave plants to talk to her about.
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14941911
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Culture gives what it feels you deserve/
in the cul-de-sac of your time and place.
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149462
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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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149400
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In the state that the stars fell on,
Love and I stumbled upon bits of God
where he forgot sky and moon, too.
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149464
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The dead want you to calm down.They are quite fine, and don't needyour post-mortem tears, the flowers and veils; their names mispronounced by preachers. None of your catechisms will do -- especiallyfor the children, who know them well and need no…
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149487
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He invited her in for a Martini and she graciously accepted.
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149496
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my love for you/ is like the falling snow
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149464
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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.
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149420
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Half past six; already, through the gloom Saltwater flourish sifts from wharfs that ply Their play like girls that haunt the midnight's womb, As far it seems as walks of Barbary. Within the bar, French waitresses and sots Play dice with time awhile and rub…
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149487
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Downtown Milwaukee My feet are exposed, never been out in public even out here— …
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149453
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The mother, a pony-tailed beauty, thinks she looks fat in her
new blue-checked pedal pushers and white blouse tied
under her full breasts— in the latest style.
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149321
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The kitchen is full of old girlfriends. I avoid them. They are munching on cheddar and sharing stories I'm sure I don't want to hear.
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149385
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149300
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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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149311
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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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149388
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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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149300
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I pat my pocket to make sure everything’s in order; a Starbucks blueberry scone to sustain me, a $50 Brooks Brothers gift card from my in-laws, and my “piece”–a fully-charged BlackBerry handheld device.
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149354
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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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149300
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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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149331
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the vigilance that informs a parent's every hour had momentarily lapsed
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149332
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The Italian was late. She was supposed to come into the store, meet him in the back, and arrange to take the last of his liquor.
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149345
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Today I’m feeling crabby and haggard and technology makes it easy to get to the point.
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1492109
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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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149274
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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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149200
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Early in the morning
I wanted to send you something
for when you wake;
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149253
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149242
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Q:What made you want to be a person who rides a train?
A:As soon as I learned there was such a thing, I wanted to be one.
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