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144363
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Now I know
All you need is coffee
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144322
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They can’t help
Seeing a child even there
In the crude brushstrokes.
They say it is me.
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144362
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"What have I done?
What in God's name possessed me?
Confessions of some college trouble in the 60's.
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144242
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A daydreams about a woman whose name he’s forgotten next to B, who’s been drunk since afternoon.
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144200
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Mid-laugh, Mr. Adams caught himself. His eyes welled, flooded with guilt for chuckling at his son's funeral.
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144200
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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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144221
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“Maybe you should consider dating your terrorist,” my dad said to me. “Most terrorists, I think their problem is they can’t get a date. "
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144231
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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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144233
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You and she might make love here, next week,
and I'll buy my own razor, switch from baths to showers.
I shave my legs in my imagination.
They, like life, are smooth.
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144201
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No one told us that the LZ was already hot and the last Combat Mobile Team had already been shot down and killed. No, no one told us that. So when we came in below about 500 feet I began to hear that "pitit" sound of AK-47 rounds going right through the f
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144255
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Some nights I want to take my father’s glock / and build my skull a sunroof.
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144277
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Spring Squirrel Spring is here now A dead squirrel in the road Regrettably not Seasonal Surprise Inside warm spring rain Coiled up like Jack in the Box Resides a snow storm Bad Vibrations telephone shouting an…
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144200
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Mustard stings the corner of his lips. He swipes it away with a finger, and looks closer at the hot dog. The piece of meat is ripped open like a sliced finger stuck in a doughy bandage
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144200
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When Jimmy – and Frank and John and all the rest – joined up, it all seemed a big lark. Little Mary – she can’t have been more than about five years old – was dead proud her Dad was going off to fight the Germans. I doubt she really knew who the
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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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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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144176
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Whistler pounded a nuanced nail,
into our inferior foreheads.
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1441116
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Observe the withered/
head atop the pole.
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14411110
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My emulations always fail. At heart,/
I don’t want bougainvillea nor blushing pilgrims
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144131
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Don’t get me wrong. Maria Shriver is hot, but her angled face makes me think a knife thrower is out to get me.
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144141
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But, The Driver talked about speed. Something about pulling her off easy or we’ll blow our tires. “No telling what’s off that shoulder,” he’d say.
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144133
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Today, I am almost entirely self-coincidental, though I still feel a lag lurking somewhere.
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144121
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Ben exited the uptown Broadway Local at 103rd and oriented himself.
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144185
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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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144131
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My mother’s serene and patient voice flew up the staircase once again “Megan, are you done feeling sorry for yourself?”
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144185
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144100
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try to keep him from eating the children
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144140
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Diane couldn’t shake her compunction. Though eight and a half months had passed, nothing felt right anymore. Their conversation played out in her dreams, and stilled her during everyday errands.
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144155
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i’m trying to remember
don’t all the best apples happen
in September?
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