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Died is forever. Passed away/
Is ambiguous. Dead isn’t/
polite.
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147434
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If she does not get to him in time, / all is lost.
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147400
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My husband says you don’t have to tip the owner of an establishment, just employees. I never heard of that rule, and suspect it is another example of him just being cheap.
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147366
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Wild are the woods tucked in the backyards, tame the front lawns of green, manicured, with a hedge and a few flowers, a well-maintained driveway, and a garage door.
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1473119
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Shiva and Zeus convene a focus group.
“It wouldn’t work,” the panel votes. “Those leaf eaters would strip the trees and crops if we let them come back every year.”
“That’s true,” Jehovah reasons. “Remember that plague of locusts I sent down?”
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147340
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He couldn’t dredge up a single memory about the sex.
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147363
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I wear boots over bare legs feigning ignorance
To the coming storms, the snow the ice the cold
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147363
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—Have you ever fired a gun?
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147323
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While serving in government, she plotted to change it.
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147310
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But oh my goodness ladies and gentlemen, out from under the vast reeking field, under this generation another generation has been rising and they are bursting up out of the soil of corpses they were boiling under there all along and they are bursting up o
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147321
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Under a conspiratorial moon… the shovel my silent partner… organ-less torso to the worms.
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147301
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The duty of a student
can be summed up in a sentence
To benefit the race of man
with thoughtful independence
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147352
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I remember the first time I met the virgin, Terry (not Mary.) She was in the back seat of an old Plymouth convertible with its top down, jam-packed with raucous high school girls vying to see which one of them could be the most loud and obnoxious, and w
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147231
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No one takes me seriously because I am an idiot.
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147254
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The cellar smelled like an aroused muskrat.
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147244
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The first time that
Beethoven’s Fifth was played,
people ran into the streets.
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1472105
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Did they do it in pairs or all at the same time?
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147230
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he flies away
past the green explosion,
into the azure sky
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147261
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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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147232
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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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147297
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She grew tired of waiting for her husband to give her a flower so she picked one for herself.
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147221
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Rachel Stevens is an attractive woman I notice her long fair skinned legs and think that She must wear sun block to live in Arizona And have skirts like that. Today she invites me inside, She says she has a light bulb for me to change — up high. In a friendly…
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147285
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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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147200
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Lula’s fried chicken should be served on the hem of Jesus’s robe rather than out of a styrofoam box. It’s so good that I kept glancing at the little tray on the steam table, hoping to be hungry again, ready to yank pieces out of the grasp of strangers, to
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147221
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Finally my daughter emerges from behind the silver curtain, riding piggy-back on a gigantic proboscis monkey. She's preoccupied by his nose, and wrings it like a wet dishrag with both hands. If it hurts he's not showing it.
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147297
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she had a chipped tooth...
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147264
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The rocks were pillows around her shorn head, the crimson stream running from her ears the only sign she had not chosen to lay down on them. Behind us, the rockface stood stoic; below us, the water lapped our feet.She held my hand in hers, giving me succor as I…
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147232
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Of course they (the coffee and cream) were lovers, chemically made for one another, warmly exploring their partner's particles with the passion of a first kiss.
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147232
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The girls of spring, they’ll stop your heart
When they forsake cosmetic art
They practiced back when skies were grey
and clouds obscured the light of day.
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147153
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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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