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You can tell your doctor the truth
Even if no one else will stop and listen
He or she may have a balm for it
To help make it go away
Or at least go into remission
Remission is the staging area for Lies
Corporate and otherwise
We don’t have
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I need some fantastic news. I need some happy news. I need to feel happy. Need Fantastic Need Fantastical Need News Need Happy need happy news make happy news happy make ake
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The Traignarry Light Preservation Society meets monthly, and welcomes visitors.
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Got something inside me
hard as nails
keeps me walking upright
ain't never failed
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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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It was far away and I don't know how we arrived. There were people about that were involved in getting boats into the water or else playing sports games atop green hills. They told me I should go out in a boat with this guy and that he would take me around the island. I…
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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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They divided over worthless gain, while I came too late for the battle.
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In my life when I am pursued /
by some wildly delicate thing
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I planned to wear this shirt, /
blue, black, and white stripes, /
collar and pocket,
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Consider this. Only a sentence ago we were complete strangers, oceans of time, distance and thought between us.
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You don't just hear the sound, you are the sound, you and everyone else in the room.
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I look as sympathetic as I can, under the circumstance, which is entirely unsympathetic.
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They say I'm supposed to see everything as a nail, but I have a silver head. Too soft for bang-bang. Too soft for anything but sitting on a shelf. I sat in her classroom for twenty-five years. She was proud of me and pointed often to the words inscribed on me that I can't…
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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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The clip-clopping of footsteps now echoes from the opposite end of the alleyway, and as you turn to face the figure who appears behind you, the figure wearing a fierce Noh-drama mask, you determine that this time you will enlist its aid in decoding this r
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Their tongues were dry, her milk was gone, and the last bit of water in the plastic jug had evaporated.
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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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...when they entered eager lungs hungry from deep and sweaty love
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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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Ben was cheered to see Monique in good spirits again.
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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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A woman confronts her suspicions about her husband's fidelity.
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Miles away Coriander was stepping through the forest with a light but determined step. He was exhausted, but the terrors he imagined every time he pictured his beloved in the claws of a dragon were too intense to allow for sleep.
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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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I wrapped my arms around each of them
ran my hands over their face, and kissed
their lips. "Why are they dreaming?" I asked.
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All I need is a break; to meet a woman who has access to a fruit fly database, either personally or through a trust established by her fruit-fly collecting grandfather.
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A dirtied light falls through/
the grimed windowpanes.
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