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Got something inside me
hard as nails
keeps me walking upright
ain't never failed
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139554
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—You know, Angelique, said Elaine Aster, dabbing her lips with a napkin, I’ve opened a new gallery in Paris.
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13951510
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Someone's ass should be kicked.
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139566
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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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139500
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Should probably be faster at the cash register
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139544
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"...,beautiful, yet neutral, an oversimplistic reading of the people we meet."
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139596
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I saw Vincent one day, sitting at a café table that was situated right next to the quays of the Seine, with another artist by the name of Bernard. Vincent had his back to me, and he was leaning forward in his usual hyper-excitement, gesturing wildly
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139543
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139500
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I beat that dog with an open hand, clenching him between my thighs.
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139452
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My dog’s on suicide precautions. I had to take away all her eating utensils--even the chopsticks. So now she has to eat directly from the bowl. It doesn’t seem to slow her down.
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139411
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My grandfather rode with the Czar’s army. He was abducted from a village in Austria, trained to pillage and drink, plunder and rape, and ride the best horses that could be had. They were given the best vodka and the sharpest swords. They were all just b
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139421
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The officer’s eggs and bacon rested on the asphalt amid shattered ceramic and boot heels.
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139400
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139432
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"I’m wearing a white sundress with little strings tied at the shoulders, sheer white panties, and a lace push up bra." It sounded good, sexy, likable. The kind of outfit a girl he’d fall in love with would wear- if he was prone to love, that is. "That sou
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139495
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I'm putting makeup on my face. The woman next to me is reviewing legal briefs.
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1394158
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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139432
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The were two things and two things only in the town of Comfort, Alabama, that were older than Bella.
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139432
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Little things that kept me going are no longer doing the trick, and venting to someone eventually drives them away. People around you know what is going on, but there is little they can do. They stay away at more than an arms length and you understand. Tr
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139400
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Her friend was a performance artist who gave Marcia a framed picture of her vagina, made with menstrual blood. At least that’s what she told everyone.
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1394910
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Fine gradations of the fractional/
fissure the eggshell whole we crave
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139421
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In the blur she met Joseph. Joseph was the priest who lived in the attic of the church. She met him after she grew boobs and thighs that moved like dragonflies soaring above ponds.
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139434
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If she does not get to him in time, / all is lost.
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139474
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The energies align to compel you,/
wave by field, charge by pulse, into/
an ever increasing circle of speed
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139456
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I said: “Doesn’t he understand? People like me, geniuses—great, mad geniuses—are prone to failures because we do not accept the common notions of society? Doesn’t he understand? I’m not like the others.”
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139400
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She can still be normal, says Momma, knowing my sister can’t hear, forgetting I can.
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139421
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I was born at the age of 42.
Some of you might regard that as a handicap, but at the time I assumed everyone was born fully grown in a corporate test kitchen. In fact, I still think of it as an advantage; like being born with a silver spoon in my hand.
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139353
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I arrange 15 restatements of how lovely you are forward then backward, horizontally then vertically then along the diagonals.
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139361
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Everybody will be talking about it
on campuses across the country
“Hey! You’ll never guess who’s toilet
I bought. I’m not shitting you!”
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Ey’, it’s where I followed him down
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