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Sunday, May 9, 1773 Sir — The world must at present be perpetual on the primitive state of human nature Conjecture The jealousy and envy boils over a dead weight strangled serpents in the Temple
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Emi paced back and forth, fixing her jacket out of nervousness. The cool breeze crawled around her skin and she shivered.
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circumstances//
squeeze the heart so hard/
that you should die but don’t.
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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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One of these days
we aren’t going to believe
whatever they tell us.
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I saw Vincent one day, sitting at a café table that was situated right next to the quays of the Seine, with another artist by the name of Bernard. Vincent had his back to me, and he was leaning forward in his usual hyper-excitement, gesturing wildly
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The bird sat there some time. Several minutes. My wife and I grabbed out i-Pads and took pictures.
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Depression had Frank in its craw.
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Survival is often violent.
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a man sees salamander bands / a-cracklin on the scree
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Bent, crooked and straight, knifed.
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If you were glassI'd fog you up With my breathI'd leave messagesPictographsIn fingerprints I'd press in closeSo would youAnd so we'd danceBut you are glassAn inch of depthTo catch my breath
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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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...when the doctor scrapes the baby out, he cuts out all the things that make babies, too...
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I was insufficiently abused as a child.
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I’d look for a fork and quickly stab a piece of it and bite into it, feeling good about the finality of things.
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pulled the
wool off my head
found i
was almost dead
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on cd I make
john hiatt does not smash
perfectly good guitar
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Instead, we found his red-inked list of boys who would never be saved,
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Our half-life, radioactive decay, particles shed leaving dust and bone."twilight years", "golden age", "evening of life"?Bullshit. I'm not ready to stop pumping high octane.You said, "I'll take you to Paris."Hemingway's address is still in your notebook, I saw it.I'll wear…
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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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Sometimes, you compare your living situation to a prison because it makes you feel better. "At least I have a fridge," you think to yourself.
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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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“It’s time we moved our relationship back into an upright position,” I said.
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My friend and I were once walking the aisles of a supermarket because we decided we were going to have roasted duck. We didn’t know how to cook, but as the old Filipino reds used to say: If not now, when? If we don’t learn how to cook now, as in NOW, then
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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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"...she became aware of
her cold saliva
dripping slowly over her bare
arm muscle,..."
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"a ratty, red, medium-sized bicycle for sale in a ratty, medium-sized yard."
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