1474 2 1
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...to know they are not alone
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14741911
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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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147466
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I'll still want the blinds open
and the lights on,
to see the papier-mache of our flesh
fighting death away to the century mark,
even if you only want to live until
a ripe eighty-two.
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147442
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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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1474129
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...it was moving toward me from an oblique angle somewhere behind, steadily, relentlessly.
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147421
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I stared at these meteor impacts, feeling far away, a lone sentient cloud admiring the scoured yet wondrous earth-of-this-girl below me, the lean slope of her side, the soft dip of her neck, the sharp edge of her cheekbone, the monarch wing of her eyelash
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147432
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"I'm just going to
take a power nap!"
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1474126
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"You gonna be old before you're old," my father had told her.
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147473
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Shit, I guess I'm gonna hafta
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147442
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Last night we slept with books in the bed.
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147412
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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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147342
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I left Iowa in august when the air was thick and sticky. I had been there three years minus a few days when the boy I'd been sleeping with packed almost everything I owned into my car and waved goodbye. In Baltimore I had few friends and a job teaching English at a…
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147341
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Ben was not a happy musician.
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147321
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Just an abnormal visit to the post office.
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147376
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Ross, I've been a ghost hunter for almost 10 years now and this is a place I said I WOULD NEVER NEVER EVER go to!
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147361
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HORDES OF MEN desolated, struck down, destroyed, sunken form of skin and skeleton, bare cloth matted to torso, bodycage and hipbone, face and neck darkened, bloating to black, rain the endless dream stuck fast in the stone-dead skull and blood a fine sheen over all,…
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147311
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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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147300
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Let me guess. You're reading this because it's dark or there's no surf or you're at work dreaming about surf or you're broken in some way that prevents you from surfing. If I'm right, you depraved little human, then you have come to the right place. Here we…
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147300
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Grayson Warren is living the American Dream: a 15-year career as a city cop, a great wife and two kids. And then one day his dream turns into a nightmare.
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147322
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I may as well have been sleepwalking. Either way, I had no opportunity to admire the moonlight flooding into the long corridors, illuminating the stag heads and painted cheeks of long-dead ancestors.
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147321
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I came to a field where, scattered around, were quite a few men digging holes
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147311
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we all die from the bottom up
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14731310
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Tentacles hold fast to the small/
thrashing thing they believe is true//
which, devoured, once crushed/
completely still, turns into shit,
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147364
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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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147311
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You’re listening to Smooth FM, taking you from the darkest hours to the start of a brand new day.
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147331
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the vigilance that informs a parent's every hour had momentarily lapsed
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147323
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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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147355
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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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1473103
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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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1473107
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The Tea Party member was married but cuter. He worked as a caulker, a tub and basin man.
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