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I sense that I may have won a few hearts and minds with my stirring peroration. "Can I get anybody a Republican Party beer koozie to take home?"
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142184
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Years ago when the smart of it was as nippy as this one.
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142132
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All the time I'm eating I can't help but think of the many different tuna melts I have ordered in diners and coffee shops and how each of them disappointed me...
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142121
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In moving crowds I plan to break you.
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142111
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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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1421129
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Your cairns/
are litter in the streets
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14211411
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I. The sun's corona. Empty boxes near the firehouse. Red birth. A bird's lost wing. II. The bitterness of littleness. Apples in a pile.Early love.A spider, swinging. III. A father's harshness.Twelve bills unpaid. Leaves in a crevice. A dream…
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142120
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“Sloshes to sloshes. Drip to drip,” I said, then ceremoniously flushed the toilet bowl, our heads bowed in reverence as Molly and I gave Swimmy its last rites. Swimmy, named by Molly whose overstatement of the obvious is endearing in a three-year-old, was…
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142132
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The worm was stabbed where two rivers branch:/ the thing that would slay was slain.
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142120
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The perfect murder, and it’s not even murder.
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142132
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while you peed on that little old lady's begonias
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142141
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In the morning I listen through an ear-trumpet
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142075
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Does sound shape silence/
or silence shape sound?
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142032
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I used to compare her to a sunburnthe first of the summerit is always the worst oneexposed skinalmost hot to the touchturning warm and pinkthen raw and redit is a transition that is effortlessbut still you can feel it happeninga lot like loveyou can feel it all around…
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142000
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—They turned him into a time bomb. Listen close, and you can hear the tick-tick-tick.
—All I hear is snoring. How do you know he was brainwashed?
—Because he can’t remember a thing about the experiment.
—I can say this: If he can’t remember anyth
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142033
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The retired, widowed receptionist slapped one hand to the base of her throat with a gasp . . .
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142000
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When not enough is left to utterThe syllables it takes to say,Goodbye--Disassembled and developed,Laid upon the ground,Like the girded gridlockOn your smog befitted brow...Goodbye.And what if I said, hello?What if I said, good day?Would it change your sunken bodyAnd repair…
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142085
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Every encounter is a dance, every secret has its key
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142043
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No, no mother’s tenderness: she shows no sign of that … Do you know that she has them make their own bed? No, not the girl: the boys too! Yes, the boys. She humiliates them.
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142022
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The boy buckled in and told his mom, “No mommy, I can do it myself”
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142031
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He's gonna find he wasn't born lucky after all, his propaganda has got up on the wrong side of the bed and sidled onto the couch.
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142064
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My head is nailed to yesterday.
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142088
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PATHOLOGY How awful it is to dissect a marriage! It lays naked on the therapist's steely table. He makes his first incision into the bloated stomach of our malnourished union. He polishes his glasses and peers, cuts the thin taut skin of our…
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142011
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Liz lies in bed next to a stranger. He is snoring softly, and she turns her head toward him, looking at his eyelids flutter as he enters REM sleep. He stirs and rolls over on his side away from her. As he does so, he pulls part of the comforter with him, exposing her…
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142033
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"Let somebody else deal with for a while, man, I'm tired."
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142032
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141932
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"Don't pull too hard," warned Father. "You might sever it from the body, spraying blood into your eyes."
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141942
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Some great, doubtless precious;
some hollow, likely empty;
some only shards, but you never know...
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141932
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Friday afternoon. Angelique Brody knocked Francesco’s studio door.
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