1383 10 9
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Your tunamelt cadence / Sank me to ocean floors
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138353
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He is sitting in the infinite rain
and the water is making him some infinite silhouette
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138355
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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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138353
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Crass, vulgar, boorish, impaired, angry, depressed, jealous, regretful.
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138351
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At 19 words, the whole piece is a snippet.
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138350
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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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138340
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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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138394
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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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1383117
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Jimi and Janis remain fierce and beautiful
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138321
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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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138311
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Stanley had a crush on Sarah. They were in Ms. Goldman's freshman chemistry class together fifth period. That day they were working on homework at Sarah's house while her parents were gone. Stanley was in heaven.“Break time!” Sarah woke Stanley from daydreaming,…
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138332
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A short time ago, a man who lived near me got angry. He woke up one morning and torched his house, with his wife and stepdaughter still inside. He drove up I-35 to the Georgetown airport, got his plane, and flew it into the Echelon Building in Austin.
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138311
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The following is a true story. Though it happened 35 years ago, it happened last night too. Everyday a new convert is welcome, a new tapestry begun. A new hunger is born.
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138353
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I don't look like other poets. /
People hardly believe it when I say /
"I write poetry, sometimes. /
During lonely evenings."
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138311
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The guy – it’s Billy Krazik - turns and aims at Jamie Stockwell, sitting there calmly as if he’s in the play or something and he takes two to the head.
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138344
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I may have gone
A little soft in the brain
But I swear I still see it
The angel closes the rain
Even God has to refrain
From causing us pain
When the angel closes the rain
So the angel closes the rain
At the end of time
The angel mus
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138300
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“All I want,” he was heard to say, “is a date with a really
good-looking woman before I go away.”
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138210
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138220
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I’m starting to feel more interested in my savings account.
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138233
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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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138200
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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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138220
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Rose would have preferred to survey the wreckage alone, between sips of her earl grey, but the morning light drew her attention to blonde and jet black curls weaving into folds of fabric.
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138221
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What the five-year-old I baby sit for wanted to do yesterday was torture his Barbies. “Why would you want to do that?” I asked.“Because we're bad guys!” said Hanina. “Can't we be good guys?”“Not today. Today we're bad…
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138286
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The bar was packed. Fascinated, Tom watched the shenanigans going on around him.
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1382127
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When exactly does cheese go bad? it simply does not, I say.
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1382105
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the
unutterable
things of
this
world
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138276
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One/
can’t always trust the eye and ear//
in such matters but what can one do?/
Mistakes will be made.
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138230
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After our first kiss,
a team of scientists
scrubbed away the cancer
of your lipstick.
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1382101
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I saw a woman / at the bar tonight
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138295
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I want to write a story about a woman who lies to men about her height.
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