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A bridge not satisfied with just crossing the river - It slashed through the sky, crashed through nature - Creating a new nature, a double-decker
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132011
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While Leif was still very young, his emotions were very easy to read, for they appeared on his parchment coloured skin, named in his mother's writing. When he was seventeen, Leif fell in love. She was a pretty maid, one of the college servants who kept his…
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132010
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It was possible, she realized, to hope through hopelessness.
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132000
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“Is that an erect annual plant in your codpiece, Mr. Flax, or are you just glad to see me?”
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132000
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Winter is a particle yet unknown to science. Someday it will be described in terms of spins and magnetism. It will be set in high school physics books and there contained: look, here is winter. Graduate students will split it into cold and melancholy and poets will…
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132033
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Your mother was married to a Minotaur
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1320910
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Fine gradations of the fractional/
fissure the eggshell whole we crave
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132064
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" . . . with twinges of dread and pangs guilt, I worry . . . "
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13201210
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When we go to the streets/
we’ll have no guns
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132044
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I planned to wear this shirt, /
blue, black, and white stripes, /
collar and pocket,
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132063
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It was the losers’ bar in my neighborhood.
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132066
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132097
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If they are all speaking medicine & I / start speaking French - how / rude am I? Would they understand then / what it is to be entirely left out / of the conversation, unseen?
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132054
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The Bird King's advisors and ministers are a range of rusty kitchen utensils. They all observe a respectful silence in his presence.——Contrary to popular belief, the Bird King is not an atheist. His meathook priests do their rounds at twilight.——The…
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131964
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The Traignarry Light Preservation Society meets monthly, and welcomes visitors.
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131996
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A break from bleak world history and events...
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131910
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131911
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They run nonstop for weeks. Between traffic stalled cars. Down forgotten subways tunnels drilled long ago in the cold earth. Past burning sugarcane fields.
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131966
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I'll still want the blinds open
and the lights on,
to see the papier-mache of our flesh
fighting death away to the century mark,
even if you only want to live until
a ripe eighty-two.
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131921
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They prize how she makes shit up on short notice
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131922
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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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131932
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Tell you what, if people only knew what the buggo does to your insides before it shellacs your outsides they'd think twice before dancing. And guys like us, we'd get parades. Guys like us, oof-oof! Im-mune to romance.
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131933
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I feel like I should tell you
things about strength.
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1319119
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I lay on a table in a cold room in one of those little blue gowns that open in back.
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131922
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Most of Carl’s neighbors considered him a lone taciturn man at best and an eccentric loony at worst. His neighbors knew him as the guy who left his house every morning at eight dressed in a suit and tie.
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131952
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I remember the first time I met the virgin, Terry (not Mary.) She was in the back seat of an old Plymouth convertible with its top down, jam-packed with raucous high school girls vying to see which one of them could be the most loud and obnoxious, and w
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131833
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I remember the days when my brother and I would walk down Tillman Square, careful to avoid the cracks zigzagging along the ground. Well I did. My brother made a point to step on every one.
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131800
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...society has tampered with its denotation so much that it is almost incomprehensible without context.
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131821
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these three remainders you, me and her are the legacy of simple math
and boolean logic, not so much
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131863
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...my books have lots of swear words. So there's that.
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