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...she had marked the stars with a blue pen, connected the dots to make Andromeda, Cassiopeia, told us of the gods behind the stars...
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125500
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“It’s time we moved our relationship back into an upright position,” I said.
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125554
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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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125521
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Metropolitan I. Atlantic harbinger of this our swaddled dawn: Mistaking moon's sea sweep for this the frown The sky's plain-countenanced creatures maytimes weep Upon the surface-sundown of our lawn, When gaily surfaced for…
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1255138
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inside i know my heart rattles
cause outside i'm only seeing
that the truth is in tatters
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125563
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—You're convinced I'm crazy. I'm convinced you're incompetent.
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125521
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The elephant was breakable and I know that my grandmother held her breath every time I went near it, and I was repeatedly cautioned that it was not to be played with only admired. She taught me in her own way, respect for it. She may have commented on the green with a bit…
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125574
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125532
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Franz Kafka opens the refrigerator
And removes a bowl of jello
With the face of Bella Abzug in it
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125542
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The air smells like dream, like farm shit, like the salty stalling of evolution.
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125542
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I had a friend in high school that wore a size G bra and we would take guesses on how much her tits weighed in comparison to the rest of her body. I spent a night wondering how she kept upright.
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125511
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A 20-footer up on skids
sky-blue paint beneath the bondo
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125501
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It loomed -- unavoidable.
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125533
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It is dead, for a time.
Sometimes we are all dead for a time.
Our lives leave off, sleep under the weight of snow.
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125582
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I have always been frightened of Ferris Wheels
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125574
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The energies align to compel you,/
wave by field, charge by pulse, into/
an ever increasing circle of speed
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125585
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Mari thinks that's all fine and fucking dandy.
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125442
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No freebies. You want to read it, you have to read all of it.
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125453
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He is sitting in the infinite rain
and the water is making him some infinite silhouette
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125420
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Her eyes still fixed on him as if to whisper her concerns of fidelity.
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125454
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Is there a homunculus in my brain guiding everything like the pilot of an airliner?
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125420
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She had the smile of a pixie on mushrooms in a disco ball universe, and I dug her style.
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125421
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Roy Williams was his real name. It had been for the last 15 years. Since retiring from the Firm he’d lived innocuously in an apartment near the Old City walls of Dubrovnik doing the occasional quick job for them. You never entirely retired from the Firm.
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125485
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Have you measured the cups, the conveyors' yield? Do you know the span? I am the LORD your God, she murmured.
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125453
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only thoughts lost in lonely trails of red
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125475
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you can't always get what you want
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125421
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“You think it’s a self-castrating suicide note or a self-righteous freedom speech?”
“Probably just the ramblings of a madman, pissed he lost a company baseball game.”
“Fuckin-A, Pete! Double-murder suicide for a baseball game? Ain’t nobody that craz
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125464
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125411
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We gig, we perform, we laugh, we cry, we play our guitars, bass, drums, voice.
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125422
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Steve lowers himself onto a lounge chair and lets out a long, overdue sigh. Cliff and Jim, the frickin’ and frackin’ of the built-in pool industry, are making a Burger Chef run while the cement sets.
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