1412 9 8
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After you lost sight in your left eye, mom made me go on the road with you that last summer to help you see.
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141263
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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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141287
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I ask if anyone has a poem or a story they would like to read. Everybody's hand shoots up.
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You wouldn’t believe an organ the size of a heart could scream like a nine-year-old sissy girl but mine did.
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141232
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She is not centered, but she finds her way.
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So, my wife got fired from her job for being three minutes late five times. But he had it in for her, the fatty boss. He was lazy and she was smart, in line for his job. And she had a workman's comp case against the hospital—she'd slipped in pudding in the cafeteria…
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Adam hitched his dinosaur to a covered wagon. He drove the Virgin Mary to the Faire. Shiva rode behind them in a silver limousine combing out his long and flowing hair.
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1. Lost in the Vision Matrix, J0hn Clare transmitted a distress signal designed to be audible only to himself.2. T S El10t ran on a complex algorithm that produced seemingly fragmentary results. However, if you run Imagewise an underlying order appears.3. C0ler1dge suffered…
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That was some root beer float. It cost us a grand total of $275.
She pulls up in front of Fenton’s Ice Cream Parlor and leaves the motor running while I jump out and run into the parlor.
It was early evening. We HAD to have a root beer float. You
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It seems that back in 1911, Kaiser Wilhelm came to this town
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141110
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He was triply satisfied: he’d come twice and he was a damn good-looking man.
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141100
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It’s just another
Day where I feel tired, but I
Don’t know why it’s so.
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arrogant, sullen,/
supple and ambiguous,//
English seems the ideal tongue
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Better move ‘cause I hear them comin’ up the other side.
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this bleeding sun, clove studded & seedless
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Flowing, Flown In the field stands a jealous man with fifteen eyes stored inside the cuffs of well-worn khaki pants. His pockets pull with clinking dimes…
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141173
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Lullaby for a dragon baby who breaks the bough with bottled fists escapes the armored cradle stealing swords from terra cotta men to slash the Ming canopy and loose the butterflies that will free
Ho Chi Minh from the fire.
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His legs were pedaling hard and his heart was beating fast, He's got his scars; He can't outrun his past, Down the hill he goes, wind whipped his hair, a new style with each draft. He broke his brakes long ago; He cut the cable and ripped off the pads. He cried…
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“It's a combination of ‘Survivor' and ‘College Bowl' says Sister Mary Agnesita, the show's host. “We take four very strict nuns and match them up with boys who were cut-ups in their grade school classes."
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Lights of human occupation burn/
in patterns like the growth/
of a bacillus, lethal and prodigious,
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By the time the forked tongue of the flag extended flat like it was pressed between two of my thick volumes on weather forecasting, the man was still walking with his nose glued to the ground.
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141042
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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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It was cold in the church. The Lutherans were freezing to death. The Catholics brought their winter coats.
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141032
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Falling asleep remembering lies that had been built around lies
Lies to impress people
Lies to make life more convenient
Lies, I didn’t even know why I told them.
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He also looked at the tv with a detachment he sensed was dangerous and the sensation scared him so he ran into the kitchen and felt ashamed alone in the hot room and trembled.
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There I was at the OPEN HOUSE. It was easy, three doors down. The sign on the lawn said, PRICE REDUCED. The real estate lady said, “Back again? Thinking of buying”? I laughed. There were several couples there. People have…
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You're not late yet, but if you don't move now, you will be. You close the cover of your mac book, don't even finish the sentence you were working on or close down the file. What had been of the utmost importance, clutching at your…
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He bounds like a lunar explorer into the Edinburgh Castle, the goofy porcelain busts glaring at him with contempt.
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141000
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"That it was my stepdad's fault."
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