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Your tunamelt cadence / Sank me to ocean floors
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My first year I hated how big and unruly the plants got.
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I know from the experience of too many odd sideways glances that folks are seldom interested in my brand of observation. No one else seems to wonder how many commas there are in the library or how many other people own that exact shirt.
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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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Fall came early that year. The edge in the air wasn't just the cold, raw wind cutting down the street — the unity and collective embrace briefly shared after September 11th had faded. The weight from…
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124600
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this is your hair, this is your stare, this is your voice
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124622
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By dawn, she is ready to hunt.
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124600
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They've put down roots under the dome. Want to push through the ceiling, blot out the sun. I have other plans.
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124631
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They’re coming now. Thousands of them. Black wings, antennas, spindly legs.
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The boy stared out his window, noting the suns slow and eventual passing behind the distant mountains. He saw his face reflected in the window pane and turned away. His shadow loomed…
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we can’t hear the hum/
and the heat is imperceptible.
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124633
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was entering into a new phase of its existence, a peculiar paradigm of the wider world where, presaged by science, economic and political ideologies were conspiring to displace the old verities of religion and aesthetics, but where…
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124601
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Miranda hugged Madam Mayweather as the girls, except Akane, gathered around them.
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I am surprised that you’re not famous already. I remember sitting in your bedroom for hours just watching you while you wrote poetry. I was in awe of you, thinking you were going to be the next Dylan Thomas! Or Bob Dylan. Or Dylan Somebody! And I rememb
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Dead drunks sing Christmas/
songs-
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"Already he is running and flying to the center of the world" - Mircea Eliade, about what a shaman is up to, under his mask.
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It was if you memorized my ever detail but not the why.
And perhaps that is what love is. Was that love?
I lie in bed waiting for the man who came after you
to join me. I hear his heavy footsteps and know
he wants to go to Hawaii too,
when our bud
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124522
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We wait for a server to bring our coconut cream pie. His favorite. I hate coconut.
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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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What does God find abhorrent?
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She stood for a moment to think about what happened inside.
She had just killed her husband of twenty three years.
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I imagined cool, wet clay oozing between my fingers when I'd squeeze a tight fistful.
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124522
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A fat kid running;
the sounds of an ice-cream truck
—counterproductive.
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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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What’s your favorite emotion? Mine is ripping the sky apart and standing on a star outside of time.
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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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so out to the night, and turning out the stars, so nothing can last, and nothing is taken in
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I invited Henry to go out with me and Marge, suggesting he ask Ellen who he dated a while back and who still asked about him, but Henry shook his head “no” and said “out things” were just too boring at our ages — and besides, since his…
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I’m on Discord but I don’t know how to do anything.
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