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...bush tail beside him his closest comfort next to the genes...
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143021
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One can’t predict the final cadence of one’s life.
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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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143055
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Another year has flown, crashed to the ground, and convulsed to its death in a final match with the meaninglessness of existence. Decided to try my luck as a Walmart greeter this year but the apomorphine treatment made me break out in hives and I reacted…
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143021
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Sometimes when I fall I see a ...
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143033
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1430165
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As the music concludes, I'm finally in control of my emotions . . .
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143033
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He thought of his field trip from the previous year, of Prague’s museums, statues, squares, architecture, restaurants, and various modes of transport. The town offered none of these and surely no cinema, no crowds of people, not even an old church.
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1430139
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I was convinced that enemy bombers were on the way.
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14301410
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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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143051
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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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143000
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I felt the most afraid I’ve ever felt in my life, like all the unknowns in the universe were rushing through me at once.
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143022
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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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142921
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Just an abnormal visit to the post office.
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142941
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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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1429129
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I smelled the bleach of burst anemones
the sweet arousal of the Dungeness crabs
the seaweed of sour twigs and feces
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142900
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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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1429109
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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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142943
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Ey’, it’s where I followed him down
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14291911
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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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142932
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"Sometimes things just don’t go as planned. It doesn’t mean anyone is to blame - It just is."
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142921
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Life to her had come to resemble one of those mazes you find in a puzzle book, inscrutable except by those with exceptional IQs. Mary would run her pencil down one path in search of the passage that might penetrate to the exit, then another, but the paths
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142910
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"If you don't like it then leave!" Sally screamed.
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142900
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Should probably be faster at the cash register
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142953
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142930
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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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142934
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If she does not get to him in time, / all is lost.
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142942
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In the exquisite now, I feel everything around me, in me, before and after, I think, I should call you, say goodnight, but I do not, choose instead to write this poem, as though I can capture the magic of what is happening between us in words, A…
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142933
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The leaves/
seek reunion with the ground//
and leave the oak tree naked/
in December’s cold.
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142910
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Bree was mean as a bag of snakes and had done laid out most of the eligible bachelors in Culloden County at one time or another to the tune that at this point no man who’d heard of her wanted much truck with her.
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