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They can’t exterminate the poor just yet
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148722
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A single woman should regard every train ride as an opportunity, I once read in one of those “How to Find A Boyfriend” books. “When boarding the train, don't take the first available seat,“ the author advised. “Walk through all the cars…
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148742
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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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1487129
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...it was moving toward me from an oblique angle somewhere behind, steadily, relentlessly.
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148742
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The ambient sound wheezes on.
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148765
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Maybe they considered themselves beyond redemption, or maybe they couldn't sit for that long.
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1487107
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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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148653
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Seeking your will, instead we found, somehow, a clutch of our own documents;
folded under a rubber band gone to rot,
muddy strands nestled in the creases.
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148644
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Robert Frost told me that life goes on, but that’s just not good enough for me and for God’s sake it shouldn’t be good enough for you either, should it?
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148651
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“There are so few uses for Crisco, that to keep it in the house seems an unnecessary temptation,” said my health teacher.
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148611
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There's something about the way he touches me every time that makes my heart skip a beat and pushes the air from my throat. I shiver under his hot breath while he whispers softly and pulls himself closer, letting his fingers glide…
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148697
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This is the Minuteman tine/
of the three-tined fork//
we can stick into the modern world/
when it’s done-- a MAD triad.
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1486105
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and, under foot,//
dark caves waiting/
with their unseen pigments/
adorning forgotten walls.
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148600
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I'd had a long, hard fall from the pinnacle of the profession. I made the mistake of accepting a mouse pad, coffee mug and a fleece pullover with the logo of Upchux, an anti-reflux drug, on the left breast where you'd get heartburn.
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148664
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"...she's been seeming like she's been dreaming while awake lately..."
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148676
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Take 1. The Love Letter to an Unspoken Name Well we're beyond our appointed Moment now. We must step On what's left, alone, but That begs some explanation to These days that pinball between Stars and to the sad dreamers…
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148611
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When people talk about the end moments when one's life flashes before his or her eyes, they often refer to time as slowing down. I can attest to this phenomenon during my final moments, before the collision: the song playing on the radio, the squeal of tires and flash of…
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148694
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I’m not / going to change you I /promise
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148623
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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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148655
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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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14861812
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the epiphany at the mast at midnight is not the same at dawn
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148621
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His touch, even now, seemed to set off tremors inside her.
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1486126
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It comes to me at night, the monster. I don't even realize it's in the room until I hear it breathing behind me. It reaches out its hands and places them on my shoulders. Its fingers are furry and soft, but strong. They grasp the muscles on either side of my neck, and I…
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148532
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I am not responsible for any nightmares this piece may cause for all you mice lovers!
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148554
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In the words of that great philosopher Hunter S. Thompson, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
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148532
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Eighteen-year-old Svetlana Kabalevsky was now the widow of the poet Dmetri Kabalevsky, soon to be another widow-whore on the Moscow highway.
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148563
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Some people are born that way, and some people do things to themselves
that keep them from talking. Like opening up a soda bottle with your mouth.
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1485107
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“What do you want for Father's Day?” she asks. “Sex,” he says, his mouth curling at the corners, “and a bottle of Shiraz.” …
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1485159
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They were discussing reincarnation,
what animals they would come back as.
"I'd be a vole," Cranshaw said. Is a vole
even an animal? Connie asked.
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Perhaps my grandparents, Fred and Lela, when they were growing up....
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