1200 2 2
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“Gliese Base Twelve, come in. Gliese Base Twelve, this is the Harrisburg. We have a level five emergency. Requesting immediate assistance.”
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120085
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From words to meaning― how complicated it is.
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119986
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Four ships anchor
Far off shore
Chains slip
Beneath the swell.
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119997
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“I fly in my dreams,” his mother said. “It's my privilege.”
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1199127
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contacts, false eyelashes, strappy open-toed sandals
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119932
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I spent the evening looking at our old pictures. /
We were never happy. I realize that now.
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119901
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I wrote a poem and asked a professor to read it. / He said: IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE / like a mad man on meth, foam running down / his mouth crowded with sharp, shimmering teeth.
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119932
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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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119932
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I guess it was, you know, a daze thing: He, lightly drunk, turning red in parts of his head, in his cheeks mostly, and his chest, to which my eyes were drawn because of his v-neck douchebag shirt; and I, sleepy beyond belief, sustained like a zombie only
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119953
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I build pedestals.It's hard workHeld together by sweat, love, and lofty thoughts - an unsound foundation.The tiniest bit of heartbreak,and it comes crashing down. Always, I blame the builder and not the vandal. The next one will be…
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119943
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Skulk like a lovespun spider in a record store corner
on the orange formica subway car
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119964
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You have at least
an intermittent belief.
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1199139
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There's a witch in Laurel Canyon.She made Wes a promise.Her bungalow smelled like Parliaments. Parliaments, garlic frying in olive oil. Parliaments, garlic frying in olive, and a freshly opened pack of Red Vines. Wes could have curled up into a ball and fallen asleep on her…
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1199179
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...swallowed like a radiant yolk by an epicurean barracuda.
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1199810
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The floor dissolves beneath us, pierced by lasered/
glare of countless eye-beams.
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119854
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He gave her his driving range and she gave it back. She didn’t know what a bogey was. Arms akimbo he smiled and licked the China cat by the window.
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119800
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An hour later, we're no closer to the tunnel. In our rental car, we're just two in a school of a thousand fish skimming the edge of the island. Go with the flow, we keep saying to each other. We're just going with the flow. …
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119843
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That twig looks pretty dead to me,
He will never ever be a man.
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119823
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the mountains did change/became looming purplish waves/their spray washes us/we rinse slow 'neath lifted waves/that must be at least this tall.
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119861
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119844
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The man next door came over with a pitchfork.
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119810
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machine utility of thought,
intangible aesthetic of sentiment.
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1
Al Capone was ruling the backstreets and alleyways of Chicago during Prohibition, and we lived in a little house right next door to a speak-easy. I could peak through our curtains and see right into the bar next door when cops came in to get pai
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119884
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These days, you seem to disappear like bread tasted and devoured
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119887
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Orchids strewn over the floor...
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119801
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Miranda hugged Madam Mayweather as the girls, except Akane, gathered around them.
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1198128
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My mother should have been a minister or a peace officer. Instead, she was a homemaker who ran the home like an agency. There were certain hard and fast rules.
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119800
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It was the woman, Mary Lou Compton, that he cared about. They would've been happily married by now if Bryce hadn't killed his Uncle Ned.
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1198103
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I sit there reading a magazine while the woman clips my claws. From time to time I watch Kim’s face.
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119832
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Hope is the thing playing checkers
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