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he who laughs last is probably a dumbass fuck
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127112
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Every time it happens,
I think of Amber Heard
and how hard you can be slapped
without a bruise forming.
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127133
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Why, these were the young hands
that I kissed only last night.
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127155
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127160
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“The first thing you must remember,” Polly tells the Levensons, “is that every penny you spend on your guests is that much less you can spend on your horses.”
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127185
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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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127150
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JOSEPH YOUNG Joseph Young You might start with the top of the head, where the heat goes. This is first, first from the womb, the first word. Joseph Young There might have been a faith that placed it in the mouth, not the…
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127122
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Through void decks of apartment blocks,
Over roads on overhead bridges,
Down small streets on concrete pavements.
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127110
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His nervous cackle makes me sick - Oh, if only - Times were different - That knife - Would fit so nicely in his back
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127153
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Well, now it has fallen away some
but I felt better about it when it was raging
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127131
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I awake to find a heavy chain shackled around my ankle. I try to remove it but cannot. The length of the chain runs through my apartment, sometimes coiling around itself, but eventually leading out my front door.
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127141
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The Beatles on TV
their last show
together
as a group
and we all
knew it
smoking dope
sitting around in large
groups
in living rooms
across the universe
they sang Let It Be
and The Long and Winding Road
knowing
a man
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127111
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Lungs bursting in the alleyways
trying to keep with the beat.
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127122
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the small break of consciousness that is my dreamswaterso much wateri can never forgive the watertoo many tears
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12711110
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Back then we used to dance slowly to Sam Cooke's “You Send Me” on your parquet floors, whispering about planting our vegetable garden, planning to seed the lawn with centipede grass, promising to count all the red cars that came down the street.
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1270108
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When you need a vacation...from everything.
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127010
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At six a.m. he was awakened by the alarm on the watch, and found he could not remove it from his wrist, though he was able to turn it off. Of course, she was gone, but had left a little patchouli-scented note on a pillow.
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127055
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Due to recent enhancements to our billing system, the rate per unit for your basic service can no longer be determined.
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127011
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..Sheena's not there to make my morning coffee and the brain cells I feel slowly dying are not expiring because of bad Aussie pop songs.
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127011
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On a cold November afternoon I stood in the foyer of Sampson and Sons funeral home and paced silently back and forth across the purple carpet. They have that deep pile and rich color of carpeting that you only really see in a small town…
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127000
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the first night we visited/ i stepped on a splinter/ while walking to the car/ and half-limped back,/ hiding a wince.
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127043
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Today, the buxom neighbor carrying blintzes
Egged me not to care about
What’s not flat. She forgot
To bend, clanging together
Some fronts and sides.
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1270139
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rheumy eyes wink, gnarled hands pantomime
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127011
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“I love women. They’re like goddesses.”
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127042
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Frank left Michiko’s building and walked into Central Park.
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126900
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It was a bright day in April, the cruelest month, and the gears and pumps of the train beat on into the still air.
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126942
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1. Pharmacy Randy approached the counter. It appeared that the only person in the pharmacy was the pharmacist himself, Mr. Crubby, and from the sound of the stiff white bag crumpling he was busy saving someone's life, or at least ameliorating someone's …
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126951
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a man sees salamander bands / a-cracklin on the scree
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126955
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Her name was Carrie. And yes, it was love at first sight. Yes, she was a client, and you were supposed to keep your hands off the clients. Everyone in real estate knew that. She came into my office and took a seat in the reception area. I had a listing on Cedar…
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126997
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a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
ticket
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