1421 5 3
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A friend has been shopping an opera around without success. It's about Arthur Inman, a hypochondriac who hired people to talk to and, in some cases, have sex with him.
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142196
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Birds fly and people
hurry in the wind and rain like it's a matter
of pity.
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142100
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142100
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"Is all life suffering?" Miss Ang asked as she parked in front of the brothel. The concrete monstrosity stood humble and lost in appearance, but the locals knew what transpired there, as did the truckers and businessmen that frequented the Phetkasem Highw
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142165
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pulled the
wool off my head
found i
was almost dead
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142120
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Lu loved his mother, but her anxieties nagged at him like poison ivy. You can't avoid scratching it, but the more you do, the worse it gets.
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142166
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circumstances//
squeeze the heart so hard/
that you should die but don’t.
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142165
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I heard them praying to some god
none of us had ever heard of.
I'm glad I went to the funeral
and still have the yellow rose that I
did not throw into his grave.
At some point
you have to stop nibbling
from the moldy cake.
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142110
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One of these days
we aren’t going to believe
whatever they tell us.
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142111
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I stepped down on what looked like a mouse
Bloody and lifeless outside of our house.
I took bag in hand and prepared to grab it
When I realized the thing was the head of a rabbit!
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142144
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“Kids okay?” I didn’t mean anything by it–it would have been innocent small talk any other time–but he took up the suggestion.
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142120
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Pascal would let something slip now and then. He was sharp and spoke excellent English, with a beautiful Spanish accent. He corrected speech among the guys, but he exercised his lessons in grammar with an eloquence that fascinated all of us, not letting a
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142000
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“It’s time we moved our relationship back into an upright position,” I said.
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142031
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“The King,” he paused, pursed his lips, looked across the crowd of eager and fearful citizens of Ki, “is dead!”
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142043
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"...she became aware of
her cold saliva
dripping slowly over her bare
arm muscle,..."
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142033
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"a ratty, red, medium-sized bicycle for sale in a ratty, medium-sized yard."
|
142097
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Savvy as a nine-year-old playing poker with high rollers in Las Vegas, that was Paulie. She'd finally thrown Dick Weasel out the night before, but that morning Diana'd shot down their plan of sharing the house in a “man-free”…
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142088
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I was insufficiently abused as a child.
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142000
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There was much joy in Galilee, for it was not often that two marriages, not merely one, were celebrated in one ceremony.
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1420138
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Instead, we found his red-inked list of boys who would never be saved,
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142031
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For weeks they used every medium to say: This day will be an end or a beginning.
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141951
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a man sees salamander bands / a-cracklin on the scree
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141900
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We at Cahiers must continually ask–is le cinema de kung fu pimping really, truly—as bad as it wanna be?
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141963
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Saturday at Portobello market. Wind whittles leaves from the trees; casts shop signs into windows, turning glass to shimmering fishscale.
|
141965
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The one at
dusk is not the one you met this morning.
That one's gone like a head in the window.
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141932
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my loosening grip on time.
|
141964
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" . . . with twinges of dread and pangs guilt, I worry . . . "
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141944
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the carnival ride hurtles the spinning man over canyons of light and barkers & streams of cotton candy girls
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141944
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Bud Light, B. O.
and Freeloader Heaven,
they step onto the
back of the bus without a cent
We pass by the Karma Wash
but no one gets off the bus
We pass by the
Endless Soup and Salad Kitchen
where we witness a crowd
swarming over a ch
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141944
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And if I lived a thousand lives...
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