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had I gotten home without knowing it? well . . .
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102844
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On our wedding day he carried all of the furniture out of our small bedroom, created a sanctuary.
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1028116
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Died is forever. Passed away/
Is ambiguous. Dead isn’t/
polite.
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102843
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The doctor bargained with us enough but I kept saying “give it a thousand years and we'll think about it.” He seemed to mean well and be smart enough to not be feeding us snakes, but he wasn't a praying man and I couldn't see past that look he used to give my…
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102821
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He leans against the truck, the sun sinking on the day, shadows inching down the side of the house, yawning towards the horizon.
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102800
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Lulls, and the gulls, amid the tides and their tears (And I join their voices and my heart is run), Though each or neither takes no part in my fears, I join no hands with the beach or the years (And the ships slip near plus yon). Held handfast,…
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102862
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"What have I done?
What in God's name possessed me?
Confessions of some college trouble in the 60's.
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102853
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“There is a fine line between love and hatred.” This was what his closest friend, Bob Sanders, had said to him many years ago. And it had finally and irrevocably proven to be so.
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102752
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He remembers, he touches,
he lifts and kisses the mouth.
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102761
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The city had a way of going silent. Not a nervous silence, but a quiet silence. The sky was dark, yet everything was colored in a yellow hue cast by the arched streetlights. Buildings, parked vehicles, walls, pavement. Cars and scooters and ambulances and police cars…
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102787
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The lecturers are retired professors from Oxford or Cambridge. They are snarky and wise and aloof.
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102754
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I can trust you with my secrets, can’t I?
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102722
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That night I came as close to getting laid as I had ever come in my life, without actually getting laid, after two and a half hours of intense petting, begging her to go down in the front seat of my car, with her asking: Why? Why, Jerry? Why? That was a
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102742
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102700
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"That it was my stepdad's fault."
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102700
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Try and put my bones back in
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102763
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I figured he knew what he was doing–he was the crazy one, after all, not me–so we took turns snorting lines of equal volume.
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1027116
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W here do you think you're going
what'll you think you'll do
running down this highway
that you never even knew
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102761
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Later, you've hit that four shot espresso limit; you've snarfed down that too rich mushroom korma… gone before you tasted it.
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102755
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How the hell do these 1/8 inch long red-eyed flying insects wind up in my kitchen anyway?
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102722
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"I have consulted the Internet," the man remarks, squatting low, sorting through a mountain of tablets. He snags two and stands slowly, confidently, and I realize suddenly that he is Moses. Two iPads, cradled surely in each wrist, glow with lists.
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102710
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Us kids in left field steal out bedroom windows after dark to pinch hit Lucky Strikes between first and second fingers, arc the glow of shop-lifted hot-boxed cigarettes over the chain link homerun fence sprawl on perfectly ridiculous grass passing a bottle…
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102742
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Across the placid sea/The only moving ship/
Was eyed by Blackbeard
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102711
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Liz lies in bed next to a stranger. He is snoring softly, and she turns her head toward him, looking at his eyelids flutter as he enters REM sleep. He stirs and rolls over on his side away from her. As he does so, he pulls part of the comforter with him, exposing her…
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1027102
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Everything I understand / is in danger.
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102700
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Normally, after her shift, Linda would make herself a latte, untie her apron, and study at one of the tables. That evening, however, KEXP kept playing songs with grating guitar riffs, and loud laughers were everywhere. She chugged her coffee, burning her tongue. Then, she…
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102732
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I've been in Tucson two days, and so far most of my conversations with my father have taken place while I crane my neck and squint into the sun. I scream up, he screams down.
He needs to fix the leaky roof before the rainy season, he says.
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102743
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Need not remember, the 6th of November.
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102711
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another lonely drone holding still
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