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Artie Shaw gave Ava Gardner a reading list in preparation for their honeymoon that included The Brothers Karamazov, The Origin of the Species, Das Kapital and The Magic Mountain.
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Sitting together at Starbucks, we composed a long love letter which we've been mailing back and forth to each other, signing our name upon each receipt and returning it for the last nine months and it has grown to eighty seven pages, barely fitting in a shoe box.
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143255
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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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143250
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"The Chinese don't have no Mardy Grah, bitch."
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143200
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Should probably be faster at the cash register
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143221
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......Based on an ad I heard on the radio from Mass. General Hospital in BostonHave you ever experienced death?Have you been in grief,past the cut off periodof six months?Has it affected your life?Has it strained relations with your wife?It is our beliefthat you…
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143120
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The story of a second, a stone, and an android -- all curiously interrelated and all, coincidentally, named Gretchen
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143111
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I dream about the boy in The Neverending Story, the gate of mirrors, and the Nothing, a dark cloud that floats in the sky, takes away everything.
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143143
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I killed him. I know you probably don't believe me, but it was an accident. I'll bet everyone in this room knows Dennis Gauda.... or should I say knew him? He was District Governor a while back. He also won quite a few speech contests. Yes... he's competition,…
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143121
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Sometimes when I fall I see a ...
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1431158
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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143164
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you tell
a stranger's story...
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143185
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The problem with drinking gin in the desert is that eventually there is no more gin but the desert is still there.
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143100
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Holding a bouquet of flowers wrapped in a tissue in one hand, a round shape that balances the round yellow burst of light that is her dress. While the flesh of her chest bulges forward and she balances as though in a holding pattern in flight.
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You’ve got me standin’ on my knees,
A’searchin’ for a beggar’s alms,
From folks who’re deaf to all my pleas
And blind to open palms.
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143151
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It starts with a letter, down the back of the couch, ending, ‘love, always.' I read only the kisses aimed at me - a firing line running off the page. How long has that letter hidden there? It secreted itself in a corner of the house…
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143122
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Happy Birthday to me.
It takes just a second on waking to remember,
It's June but it feels like December.
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143161
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It was the dead of winter. I took my father's shotgun from his closet. He kept it wrapped up in one of those khaki-colored gun tote bags that had a zipper running the whole length of the gun. It was a 16-gauge, single action shotgun. Anyone could tell wha
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143021
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Just an abnormal visit to the post office.
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1430128
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His eyes are closed yet restless, as if too many thoughts loop beneath the lids.
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1430109
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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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Dear Friend:
As a visitor to Wonderland in the past, you are truly among our most treasured friends. It is the enthusiasm for whimsy such as yours that spurs us to continue to provide perplexing chaos for which we are so widely esteemed, the better to
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143083
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After oh so many hours
the eyes could only close
only to view a Ritz cracker
marching on a nose
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1430109
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He looks outside, sees everything disappearing like crumbing cookies into what appears to be a giant mouth.
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143043
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Ey’, it’s where I followed him down
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14301911
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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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143010
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For weeks I hadn’t been able to think straight, waiting to lay vision on those majestic, swooning breasts.
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14301310
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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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143010
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"If you don't like it then leave!" Sally screamed.
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