1421 11 6
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Observe the withered/
head atop the pole.
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142153
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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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142100
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...society has tampered with its denotation so much that it is almost incomprehensible without context.
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142120
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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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142131
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This year, 2011, you bring about my thirtieth year. I'm apprehensive about this, but mainly because my father made me watch "Logan's Run" as a kid...
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142100
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Six just left to drive 8 hours thru the jungle. They’ll emerge in a year in military guerilla uniforms. One guy threw up getting in.
A friend writes, “I started a Free Mike Todaro Campaign. Hope to raise a couple of hundred dollars. We will, of co
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142196
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Tell people of substance the truth.
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1421127
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When exactly does cheese go bad? it simply does not, I say.
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1421117
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Jimi and Janis remain fierce and beautiful
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142121
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In the living room of a model home, Mr. Jorgensen lived. He was a mannequin. He spent his days in display windows. He spent his commutes displaying the latest model cars.
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142143
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An excited state
with undiscovered borders, the almost space -
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1421148
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The old lady is losing her memory. She forgets people's names yet so familiar to her. A little sheepish, she takes her basket and walks to the village. Just like when her legs were young, suntanned, shapely and attractive. Along the footpath, by the shop windows, over the…
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142111
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Lester walked back into the house. He was hungry but didn’t know what he wanted to eat. Really, he couldn’t remember how to fix anything he wanted. He walked over to turn on the television, but couldn’t find the on/off button. Surely the damn thing had an
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142020
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here’s the deal…
sorrow follows tears…
pain later for the happiness now…
is the joy something we only borrow…?
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142021
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It was R who embodied love for me. We’d eaten gummi worms in the park, held them up to the sun, yellow and green and translucent. When we returned to her flat, they were everywhere. I’d never seen such a thing. They hung in the air, these gummi worms.
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142000
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Every night I say "I dream about you all the time, Nae Ann," but the truth is I don't. I dream about stupid crap at work like air filters for a 2006 Mazda RX-8 GT.
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1420113
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I've written of this and I've written of that, Have scriven as you have it either that or this: But if you strive against the wind when you decide to piss, They say, you'll find up firing against your hat- Like some old Brother who was broiled when…
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142096
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She heads toward the end of the island and doesn't look back.
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142098
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Walking down an unfamiliar street, / I heard a sudden caw of crows, / some thunder afar, strums of a lute— / a streetcar came flying along.
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142000
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if you have a key fob, you are fired. If you have a real set of keys, you can stay
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142074
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Near dusk today a car backfired on the street beneath my office window
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1420127
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They say I am filthy. On this high pillar I perch like a stuffed avian relic, flightless, no prey. The horizon before me is broken by scuff and foreign tongue, by atomized evil. Pleas, and there are many, are answered by the only prayer I know, the one prayer, which…
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142032
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In the backyard with Joey, I make the mistake of answering him honestly when he asks what the gray brick in the dirt is for. “My parakeet is buried there,” I say. And he asks, “can we dig it up?”Joey's grandma lives down the street; he comes over…
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142022
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142021
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So you printed your resume on this coffee cup - that’s something
- I wanted you guys to think about me every morning - while you were getting your coffee
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142021
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I woke up when the smoke alarm insisted. Either the curtains were on fire or I hadn't changed the battery.
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142097
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Some of the elderly men and women are coming forward....
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142021
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My mind is on idle as it knows no other way to go. I look for good news, but if there is any, will I be able to process it?
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141900
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Miles away Coriander was stepping through the forest with a light but determined step. He was exhausted, but the terrors he imagined every time he pictured his beloved in the claws of a dragon were too intense to allow for sleep.
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141985
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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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