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Four ships anchor
Far off shore
Chains slip
Beneath the swell.
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135876
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Whistler pounded a nuanced nail,
into our inferior foreheads.
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135841
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He gave her everything she hoped for, with the exception of two things.
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135800
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It’s that time of year. The combustible mixture of booze, poinsettia corsages and the soulful sounds of Eddie Venturi and the Fastidians will cause people to get up and dance at holiday office parties who have no business doing so.
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135875
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I dreamt, said the Donkey, of an apricot. An apricot the size of a heart. …
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1358208
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I'm trying to make love to her but she wants to talk.
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135811
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Leaning toward Joshua, Stuart says softly, “Take it easy, okay? We’ll bury him. He shouldn’t be left here, in your kitchen.”
Joshua glares. “Don’t you fucking move him.”
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1358177
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Eat the Body/
Drink the Blood/
Perfect the sacrifice,
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135844
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The man next door came over with a pitchfork.
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135896
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Wind was a sorry excuse for force
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135864
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My head is nailed to yesterday.
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135811
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She never leaves her desk, but food appears like magic.
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135843
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135801
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Dina was a woman obsessed. She had endured a three hour layover in Chicago and another four in Heathrow for this. (The flight she had enjoyed with a few glasses of red and an HGTV show about plumbing that she could watch again and again.) She had staked out this corner of…
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135894
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I've never liked kind eyes;I prefer drive.Or fire.And when a woman's eyes are described as "doe,"I hear "dumb."Like an animal.
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135841
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We gave our cigarettes names.
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135800
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135865
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Anneliese inserted one of her crystal drops in Hymen's left ear and kept her left earring in. For a quarter, she bought a handful of cashews and plopped them on a red napkin.
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135722
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I had the idea while I was in the county jail. I would get jail glasses; I wouldn’t be me; I’d be some other person. I could pretend that it was someone else rotting away in that 8x12 cell.
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135722
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Reading magazines this week, I learned that:Sally Field dislikes gefilte fish.(Vanity Fair, 3/16)Pornhub, an explicit-video-sharing site, gets 2.4 million visitors per HOUR. (Time, 4.11.16)There are 641 million obese people in the world today. (Time,…
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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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135753
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Her name was Christine
and she was nailed to the cross
of their lust
and their greed,
and their vengeance
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135720
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I’m starting to feel more interested in my savings account.
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135711
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And why rabbits? Rabbits never went to a slaughter house. Rabbits died in the road, run over by cars, shot by prepubescent boys or eaten by dogs but never slaughtered in mass. It didn’t make any sense, thought Art and he wanted to ask the small man i
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135763
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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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135722
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The Argument: A couple of young female lovers, one slightly older than the other one, decide to part ways. The elder has contracted a terminal illness, and they decide the best way to part ways would be by joining together through a suicide pact.…
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135760
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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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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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now I cannot shake. I am only one person. Thereis a sadness I cannot understand. Fathom. Control. Manipulate. Detonate.I used to kiss her tenderly. Do you think this sadness is wise to us? Don't point that gun at me! There is a sadness. There is another war. Iam…
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They’ve deduced she’s still of sound mind and body. What do they know?
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