1245 8 9
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a half-moon hung straight up and down
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124510
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Wile E. Coyote? A junkie strung out on bunk dope.
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124533
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This is a warrant for your arrest.
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124587
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he wound up hating the woman he betrayed in his heart for betraying him in her body
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124520
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The sun is coming up and the work day has already begun.
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124594
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William Shakespeare (a surname that meant "wanker" back in the day, by the way)
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124521
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"More and more levels of physicality. And his eyes, man. His eyes were all wet, and... sparkly.”
“Wow.”
“Yeah. And before I can stop the escalation, he's massaging my heart.”
“Get the f__k out..."
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124500
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“Well in opposite heaven every time you make scrambled eggs the shells break into a million pieces, then you spend eternity picking them out of the yolk.”
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1245108
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He knows I talk to angels, what he would call angels. I don’t talk to him.
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124456
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Do not spank the truth
Whatever else you do
You do not ever
Spank the truth
If you let the truth be spanked
You will be diminished
And it will never let you
Be finished, instead
When you are dead
You will dangle in the land
Between
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124411
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I first saw her about a year after I moved back, when I went to Dairy Queen. I know. Dairy Queen!? Ever since I was a kid, I have had a love for the dipped cones. When I used to visit my father on weekends, we would always stop at Dairy Queen on the way back to…
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124486
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It is the fragrance of decay/
as paint, polymers and dyes/
outgas molecules of themselves
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124453
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She is a manifold of temporal flows.
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124450
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I noticed his pistol before his pissbag and I knew then that failure not only had a face but a balding head, too
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124411
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I took advantage of a free period this afternoon to nap. When I awoke, I tasted blood. My tongue was swollen. I checked myself in the mirror and saw twin punctures on my lower lip with pinpricks of blood on each. I winked at my reflection and lifted my li
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I could put on some music, but it just pushes me further away from you, so it seems. It takes me out far beyond the safety breakers and then reintroduces me to my own splashing two-fisted fear of swimming. You can swim through …
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124444
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The other day my friend, Donald, said Shirley always tells him she loves him and she probably does in her way, but it didn't comport with what he walked in and found her doing again last night. She was back at it, hunched over her computer, having chat sex with the…
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124450
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Bent, crooked and straight, knifed.
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124432
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I’m glad they put the wall up. When it gets a little humid around here, I can smell those damn people.
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124486
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and, once in a rare while,/
actual pearls.
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124442
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Across the placid sea/The only moving ship/
Was eyed by Blackbeard
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124400
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Harv and Julianne He has woken here now, on this bed, and on this particular day, many times. His fifth year in the cabin, his fifth December in Helen, his fifth, he is sure, of many…
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124411
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A hinge in my heart is broken.
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124320
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One day a girl with blond hair was walking along the fence on the other side. There were just a handful of us left and I was the only one to notice her. I watched her. She did not see me. The next time I saw her, I went to the fence. I thought she might y
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124343
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I remember reading poetry in the library
/ when I was in college, after skipping
/ Sociology, Psychology, or Theology.
/ I remember thinking: What is this nonsense?
/ I don’t want to waste my time on any of this.
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An infested, indifferent universe . . .
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I used to be a poet, you know. /
Better, in many respects, than you.
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No one takes me seriously because I am an idiot.
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Survival is often violent.
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