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Ever had the occasion to wake up look at your watch and see it's five-thirty in the morning — after sleeping on the couch all night? Ever then gone to take a leak, trudged down the hall, cracked your bedroom door to check on your wife and found a portly, balding man…
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146020
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I saw a woman stop, Stoop on the platform To pick up a penny, And wondered what it was worth To her, that disruption, That eddy in the flow of the day's rush. One hint of brightness, A tiny windfall And something changed. Lucky heads…
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1460101
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These are the three facts of my life.
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146032
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Friday night in Little Italy is a big night.
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146061
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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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146030
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I somehow ended up with my father's second wife's wedding ring. Although it could actually be his third wife's wedding ring.
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146032
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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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146062
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She buried her secrets in a bowl of brownie mix....
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146074
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146063
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—Have you ever fired a gun?
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146085
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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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146022
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Through void decks of apartment blocks,
Over roads on overhead bridges,
Down small streets on concrete pavements.
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146011
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sometimes we saw it in the sky. we'd stand on invisible stairs trying to reach it. running like frightened geese. we were going to catch up with it. grab onto its string. pull it down.
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146021
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She positioned the mouse cursor over the word Bikini and double clicked. The hard drive of the ageing work PC chugged into life as an Excel document dragged itself onto the screen.
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146031
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The night I screamed you out of my life for good, I fed your confettied photo to swirling toilet, a ticker tape parade and dead fish burial rolled into one. Later I found the box, a jiffy…
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146032
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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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145952
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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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145953
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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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145931
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No one takes me seriously because I am an idiot.
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145984
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She loves you when your words leave her dirty, semi-transparent, at times, overexposed.
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145986
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The first inkling that I might be in love with Josie came at our high school senior day outing at, oh, what's its name, state park. I forgot, but it doesn't matter. She smiled, did a little wave and stepped away from her friends, lifted her sundress a little to keep it dry,…
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145954
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I would advise the younger you to change your underpants, and not to let those boys do the talking for you.
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145954
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But there it was, amid the “junk” set to be thrown out with the rest of his childhood, opened accidentally to the page of his Indiana Jones Action Journal about his winter formal when he was sixteen.
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145943
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I killed him. I know you probably don't believe me, but it was an accident. I'll bet everyone in this room knows Dennis Gauda.... or should I say knew him? He was District Governor a while back. He also won quite a few speech contests. Yes... he's competition,…
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145933
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You’re finally in a band that can get through a rehearsal without someone strangling someone with an amp cord over creative differences. No one’s in jail, rehab, or MIA from a multi-day booze binge. The group has laid down a few quality tracks that don’t
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145900
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the warnings we fear are the selfsame ones of ourselves
of our vertical need to be first to the heights redoubling
its intractable charm of production— our inheritance.
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145997
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she had a chipped tooth...
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145921
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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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145901
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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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