1444 7 7
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we can say all we couldn’t say
when the ears could hear us
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144454
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Johnny K. didn't much like taking his exotic drugs any more. He now thought that the common reality was already an intense enough trip without wrapping it all up in enough gauze to cause permanent daydreams to the head. He liked his cheap hamburgers…
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144411
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Jason poured himself another glass of Burgundy and tried to flush Jenna from his thoughts
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1443117
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The condemned, arrested/
and convicted as a consequence/
of cheerlessness, must be prepared
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144353
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I've lost the remote control to my brain
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144333
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Coffee comes in KCups and you can't fight five wars at the same time.
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144384
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In the moment
I crinkle the aluminum foil,
The sandwich now a deeper
Part of me
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144322
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For Takama this created the second conundrum of the day. One even bigger than the first. When he’d first learnt that sensei and he would be boarding a flight together for a series of demonstrations in Geneva, little had he expected he would be locked up i
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144344
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The man next door came over with a pitchfork.
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144300
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You ask yourself, how can you be living but dead? It is not possible. Yet it can be and it can be slightly reversible, but realistically, for most people, it is not. Living but dead, is walking in the world of the in-between. Standing with one foot on the
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144356
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You say you want a resolution
Well, I got one
Let's start with nothing at all
No logic, no war, no whiskey or bombs
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1443118
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In time's embroidery, the human storyis a short stretch of a short strand within the thread of half a knot-and that stretch of strand's defective. What will mourn us when we're gone?Not the plants which live so lightly on the earth.Not the scorpions and not the ants.Perhaps…
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144311
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she felt something warm and wet on her ankle and it was producer #1's green tongue and he was still sitting down behind the table and it traveled slickly and caressed her calf with a sensuousness she wouldn't have thought something so ugly could possess
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144311
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It was a mildly windy day of the working week in the financial district of the city—the bright morning sun was out—when a security guard was called to the fifteenth floor to deal with a disruption.
“This way.”
Someone pointed to a desk. At the desk
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144397
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I see them walking. They pass right by my house. If I’m outside, I sit down on our porch and watch the parade. Sometimes I watch them out of a front window.
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144386
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My table offers up the gutted calf/
with carrots and potatoes yanked /
alive and whole
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144353
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In the center of the big diorama, the real world hangs in the air by a hook.
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144341
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Dragonfly She danced out of the burning rubble, wrapped in a shawl made of iridescent silk. It must have been her grandmother's. Her arms were wings, the silk translucent and fluttering. Fire fell from the sky. Thatched roofs, walls of mud-daubed sticks, the huts…
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144210
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144233
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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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144253
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Your face seems faint against the violet glades; The long winds echo once, then fail to start. Some wounding scent has stripped my hopes apart That dwelled to scent you. From the cavalcades The leaves make, bare at times since eve's sting fades To…
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144200
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It's hard not to sound dramatic when you begin a letter "On Earth..."
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144253
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Marie and Mary lay side by side, partitioned by flimsy blue vinyl on cheap plastic rollers.
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1442144
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. . . once you start reading and thinking about what he's saying, it's like looking at the reflection of your soul in a mirror . . .
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144221
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1442108
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If you stop, you starve//
and they just offer what you do/
to others, starved already,/
and schooled, as you, in servitude.
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1442119
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I lay on a table in a cold room in one of those little blue gowns that open in back.
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144221
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The feline apotheosis of Ish -
Shroedinger’s cat.
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144242
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It was Wednesday, the papers had a food section that day, so the gap-toothed news hawker at the mouth of Winter Street would yell out “Foozection! Foozection!”
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144200
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Make paddles of his hands
Use his skull to bail
Rig his thigh bones for a mast
And his skin to make a sail
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