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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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142246
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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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142200
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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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142265
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pulled the
wool off my head
found i
was almost dead
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142266
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circumstances//
squeeze the heart so hard/
that you should die but don’t.
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142231
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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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142265
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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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142210
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One of these days
we aren’t going to believe
whatever they tell us.
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142100
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“It’s time we moved our relationship back into an upright position,” I said.
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142111
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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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142131
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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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142197
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Survival is often violent.
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142151
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a man sees salamander bands / a-cracklin on the scree
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14211612
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“Have the cousins arrived?”
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142133
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"a ratty, red, medium-sized bicycle for sale in a ratty, medium-sized yard."
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142165
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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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142132
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my loosening grip on time.
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1421154
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It was a dire and dun-colored year when groupies wept and autograph seekers put down their pens.
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142153
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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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142188
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I was insufficiently abused as a child.
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142184
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on cd I make
john hiatt does not smash
perfectly good guitar
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1421138
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Instead, we found his red-inked list of boys who would never be saved,
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142198
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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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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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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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142073
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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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