1420 4 4
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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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142020
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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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141900
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“It’s time we moved our relationship back into an upright position,” I said.
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14191612
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ARROGANT MAGNOLIA, the first to open all, poised ten feet above our fuss. …
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141942
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Depression had Frank in its craw.
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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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141911
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There aren’t requirements, only expectations. I’m writing this, because, at the time it happened it seemed strange to me. People might think I’m writing because now, it makes sense, right? It doesn’t, I’ll tell you that much. I’ll also tell you what i
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141900
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After dividing the sabliereand after the outliers roll away,disappear,or sit like a thrombus between two fingers,will there be enough in the dayfor you to watch the sun saginto its everyday tomb,to listen to the sagittal sighof a passing evening,to eat the last fruits of a…
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141997
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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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141900
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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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141931
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He pronounced the Afrikaans word with the vowel sound like the vowel in dour. It meant box, but it also meant cunt.
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141900
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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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1419138
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Instead, we found his red-inked list of boys who would never be saved,
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141931
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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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141942
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you happen to me like motorcycle tricks
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141851
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a man sees salamander bands / a-cracklin on the scree
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141863
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Saturday at Portobello market. Wind whittles leaves from the trees; casts shop signs into windows, turning glass to shimmering fishscale.
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141833
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"a ratty, red, medium-sized bicycle for sale in a ratty, medium-sized yard."
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141865
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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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141832
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my loosening grip on time.
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141844
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And if I lived a thousand lives...
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141888
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I was insufficiently abused as a child.
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141852
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As the breeze slowly died, another breeze brought her back up, one breeze after another like the hands of God carrying her through the sky.
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141892
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i watch my mind not wanting to touch the vanished rusty notes remain objects of consciousness heaven and hell inside us each moment birds fly through mental speech dark garden rain olive green cool breath of betrayal siempre mixed with greed awakens…
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141865
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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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141854
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It was noon and cloudless when I pulled over next to the icehouse, wedged in the X formed by two dirt roads.
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141820
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Where We Come From (ver. 2.0) (Leadwood, Missouri pop. 1,200) I Matt lit a joint here driving beneath the arms of dying trees The moon shone through in jigsaw puzzles that we could never quite figure out Gravel crackled like leaves in fire …
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141711
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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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141797
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Survival is often violent.
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