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a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
ticket
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147797
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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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147700
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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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147765
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how the world is constantlyrevolving her mirroredorbs around the roomlooking for someone tohypnotize, a goddesshell-bent on catching agoon to mortal with; andas you lie from behindyourself so shall she lie withyou. Now, do you reallywant my answer to…
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147732
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Rose was the easiest lay in the Fletcher Memorial Home For The Aged.
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147733
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I kill because I can’t stop. I kill because I can.
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147721
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Under a conspiratorial moon… the shovel my silent partner… organ-less torso to the worms.
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147754
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Quarts of philosophy may be transacted by semantic obstetrics.
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147620
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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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147600
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Martin met Siena in the elevator, carrying two brown bags of groceries. She asked him to press the button for floor eight. As they rose, Martin fixed his eyes on the display as it changed numbers: G, 2, 3… and so on.
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147612
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Every time it happens,
I think of Amber Heard
and how hard you can be slapped
without a bruise forming.
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147642
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One evening I came home late from work to find my wife drinking white Zinfandel by the fireplace in the living room and reading Wallace Stevens poems out loud to the dog, curled at her feet.
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147623
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While serving in government, she plotted to change it.
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147610
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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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147685
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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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147611
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It's a haiku. It's its own snippet.
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147601
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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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147634
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If she does not get to him in time, / all is lost.
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147621
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For the sake of convenience, we must assume that everything ugly is evil. Lightning rejuvenates. Sulfur preserves. The obvious solution is dismemberment. The ghost appears to Ludwig; “How can you destroy my creation?”
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She was not the usual member of the band, not the girl nextdoor, not next to any door, not a regular housekeeper or woman. She was a ditch digger, a pied, circular piper, a mouse hugger.
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147672
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Lisa Pottratz's mother illustrated fashion for Lord & Taylor from home in the 1970s. There is more to say about fertility, naming, and diabetes.
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Her feet are raised upon an embroidered green pillow and she sits naked in a blue velvet chair. Red earrings dangling from her ears, while a red monkey sits at her feet with one leg extended.
She is exotic. A powder blue on her lips and at her navel,
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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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On Tuesday, he wears his suit to the cafe. Of course they'll let him pay! Of course. Under the table, his wife accepts their wadded bills.
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147553
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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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he flies away
past the green explosion,
into the azure sky
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147510
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Astrid did not smoke. Astrid did not drink. Astrid was not overweight. Astrid did not live a sedentary lifestyle; her whole life, aside from shopping, was working out. Astrid had no history of breast cancer or other female cancers in her family. Astrid di
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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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...a session/
of hide and seek/
among the syllables.
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