1304 15 7
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Got something inside me
hard as nails
keeps me walking upright
ain't never failed
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1304 4 1
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The last thing I heard was a loud retch
The loudest retch I have ever heard
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1304 8 5
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Perhaps my grandparents, Fred and Lela, when they were growing up....
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1304 2 2
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As I fall to the ground I realize that in a few moments I will be experiencing a new kind of pain. The last pain. The last pain I will ever feel.
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1304 2 1
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They prize how she makes shit up on short notice
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1304 1 0
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As the 5 train gained momentum away from Fulton Street, Helen took her seat with the alertness and suspicion of someone who had spent the day negotiating prices with dirty fishmongers.
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1304 4 4
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It was time to go sit outside in the sunlight with the gang of trust-funders, just to see what was new in the world of high finance and falling stock prices. “So, what's happening with the economy in China?” I asked. And they just stared at me as if I had
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1304 4 3
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Before the paint spikes Coney Island to the wind, I walk home through the strum of a shield, colder than the one he left behind. For the hour I sprawl along the sidewalk in her laugh, crater's shadows for Wonder Wheel, he is midnight sun in The Last Waltz. Where the glow…
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1304 2 1
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Ben was cheered to see Monique in good spirits again.
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1304 5 4
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In December of 2003, Daniel Arredondo succumbed to his years long battle with colon cancer. If the name is unfamiliar, you're not alone. He did not answer to the name Daniel Arredondo. For most of his life, from seventeen years old to the end, in fact, he went by the name…
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1303 5 4
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Luv walks around touching everything with her little hands. Uzma follows behind her, talking sweetly, saying: "This is going to be your new home for a while, darling."
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1303 3 3
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The cover features Lincoln as a woman. Lincoln as a woman is not a thing of beauty.
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1303 0 0
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It may be her destination, but was it also her destiny?
In a desperate wave of inspiration, she decided to let fate take its course.
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1303 17 9
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...a session/
of hide and seek/
among the syllables.
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A dirtied light falls through/
the grimed windowpanes.
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1303 3 3
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Your mother was married to a Minotaur
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1303 9 10
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Fine gradations of the fractional/
fissure the eggshell whole we crave
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1303 5 6
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In my life when I am pursued /
by some wildly delicate thing
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1303 7 3
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A pig weighing nearly 300 pounds was discovered in the back of a wrecked car in Youngstown, Ohio. The car, a Nissan Cube, was totaled, but Penelope the pig was unscathed.
The car, which belongs to Wendy Thrasher, Penelope's owner, was apparently stolen
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1303 4 1
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The most unoriginal, trite and hackneyed story ever written!
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1303 4 3
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Neither/
evergreen nor exactly deciduous./
And soon, a yellow residue of pollen/
smearing hoods and windshields
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1302 11 5
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I haven't been here in a while!
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1302 0 0
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Danny was only ten years old when he first met the man in the suit. His machine looked like a plotter and it was, sort of, but also something of a plot device.
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1302 2 2
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II. ByCoalport Your hair streams minarets across a bridge, The…
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1302 2 0
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When she was just a little bit younger, Dana wanted to be known around town as something other than the girl who used up all the machines at the laundromat with her little brothers' Spiderman underwear and her grandpa's pants soiled with God-knows-what. Something…
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1302 6 3
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...my books have lots of swear words. So there's that.
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1302 3 1
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You’re a glimpse at immortality, a pathway to transcend the body, to the sphere just outside, where time ceases to matter and the ball of the sun grows warm in our bellies.
I’ll love you more than the next lover and never
as much as the lovers before y
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1302 3 1
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A friend of mine died and went to heaven. At least I thought he went to heaven. I mean Freddie wasn’t such a bad guy and if he had any faults they were mild peculiarities. Like his girl watching. He was a champion girl watcher. Even in this a
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1302 0 0
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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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