1303 10 6
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The screen door slowly opened. I was expecting the second / coming of perfection.
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1303 0 0
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I know I used to say I’d rather walk on the moon with my own rapacity. And you can easily say things like that, given the luxuriance of youth. But it was a lie, if you want to know the truth. That is only so much hot balloon air, puffed up in the chest,
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1303 4 3
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Cliffs are not all I've known, but I've seen them every day since I came to light. When I first broke out of the shell that protected me from feet and poisons, I pushed my way into darkness. It was soil. I could not have survived if it was light, and when I surfaced there…
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1303 6 3
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" . . . the government works for the aliens now, taking over the world. That's why everything's so screwed up."
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1303 3 1
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The heart of those stars is a dab of yellow light. The darkness of the blue night appearing so deep because of the downward strokes of the actual sky interspersed with a violet that is almost black above the truly black silhouettes of the city buildings
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1303 3 1
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Anna's daily train commute from the outer suburban fringes to the city reveals a message that changes her life.
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1303 1 1
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We may sniff a gush of something
in the rush of heat round a petrol bomb.
Or reap a gift from the
cracked head of a hero.
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1303 2 2
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Quickly enough, it became clear, however, that this was really all about offers you could not refuse, allegations you could not contest, arrests you could not understand and acts you would not survive.
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1303 9 8
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Pinesatz is standing again. He and Marie seem unaware of time, unaware that Louane is watching them, unaware of waiting for Wendy with the car. Every glance is a hook. Every gleam is a glance. Every stanza is a room. She vies for it.
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1303 4 1
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to us! Without it we are less than human and cannot guarantee your safe passage through our woods any more. Give us back the moon. It is the primary element in the makeup of our deepest breaths taken to invoke all cycles to continue. It contains…
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1303 6 5
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She locked herself in the bathroom on our wedding night. That was my first clue that I had made a mistake.
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1302 2 0
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it’s more about how all those words look around each other. he’s more interested in the shape of things, than the reality....
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1302 9 6
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It's weird to be here. I wonder if you are here too. You'd probably say oh that was years ago. And you would be right. But I like the things we believed in then. Some of them I still do. You're old I guess. You were so pretty and golden in your…
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1302 3 3
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The man who put up the clothes line left his kids upstairs at night and came down to my bed.
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1302 3 3
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The retired, widowed receptionist slapped one hand to the base of her throat with a gasp . . .
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1302 3 3
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“Psst."I paused in my tracks as I walked in front of the building where Two Doughboys used to be.I looked around. The streets were deserted. I saw the big “For Rent” sign in the empty window where the sweet smell of pizza used to emanate. “Over…
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1302 2 1
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Something’s been eating at my craw. I’m just going to go ahead and spill it all out. You ever hear about Poetry Whores? Well, let me tell you a little about them, because if I don’t, then who will? I’m not going to name names. You can pretty much guess
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1302 8 5
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The model takes off her clothes and poses nude for our class. We draw her likeness on paper.
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1302 4 1
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Tiny skiers look like beetles/on a white bedspread. /We watch them fall to earth from/the high peaks and tell ourselves
this is the week that sealed it
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1302 11 7
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Jimi and Janis remain fierce and beautiful
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Giant stars are beautiful, when you stand directly in front of them.But touching them, is a whole other story.Junior had touched one. A strong burning sensation flew through his arm and down his spine. A feeling of electrocution and burning at the same…
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They all knew he had cancer before the doctors gave the final verdict. His wife wept and his parents held him tightly. It was a dreadful time for all. Out in the hall his children looked on with fearful faces and shook their heads as he begged them inside with a…
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1301 9 5
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There were ten thousand photographs buried in the bottom of the jar
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1301 5 0
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I noticed his pistol before his pissbag and I knew then that failure not only had a face but a balding head, too
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1301 9 7
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a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
ticket
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1301 18 8
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he who laughs last is probably a dumbass fuck
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1301 4 1
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I want you to tell me the truth, she said. The whole fucking truth.
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1301 4 2
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Girolamo Dente was nodding off in his studio at Découvrir Art when he heard the alarm.
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1301 5 3
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only thoughts lost in lonely trails of red
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