1321 11 5
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You burnish what is left
until it shines and call it
your own.
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132165
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132100
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When we crossed the California/Oregon border, I had this
vivid image of sleeping bags filled with human bones. I shook
my head and the scene would not go away. The woods must be
full of dead campers, hitch hikers, run-a-ways, and black
teenage whores
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132177
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this elegant silver wrench/
which from the opposite side/
becomes a golden Phillips-head
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132130
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Frank cut the tip of his finger off and it sort of shot over to the lettuce bin. The blood pumped out in tiny jets as he covered it with the palm of his other hand and ran to the sink. He pointed it in the sink and turned the water on, he could see…
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132100
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Swat at those screeching children with tufts of harp-grass. Flail, mad eyed and sad sighed with all gleaming hope gone out of the daylight. Swat and screech swat and screech. We continue until their thick bark-like hides are smooth and polished. We sand them with…
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132111
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A man in Watchupecka, OH, was charged Wednesday night with drunken driving in heavy traffic in downtown Watchupecka when he failed to stop for a red light.
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132130
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The last time my old lady threw me out, I decided to go and stay with my brother. I thought, "That's the last place I'll be welcome," and I knew that was true. The drive was calming, which was good, because Steven wouldn't have even let me in if I…
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132143
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He began to chop the powdery substance and separate it into segments.
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1321122
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full of mad hope / we dash into the street / leap into the fray / and enter splendiferous lists
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132053
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—Mr. Martinelli, can you explain how you developed your painting technique?
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132011
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I have a fascination with Dickens and London and this was inspired by my next novel.
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132097
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“I fly in my dreams,” his mother said. “It's my privilege.”
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132041
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Proponents of this pragmatic line of thinking say a tolerant approach to Islam will succeed where force has failed to persuade terrorists to abandon the religious fanaticism.
It's certainly worth a try--it worked with Presbyterians.
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132064
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It's not stories the quiet lack, but inclination...
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132031
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When Beez and I were visiting D.C., Beez saw MDW after many years and said, almost so that MDW could hear him if he wished, “His hair looks like Beethoven’s.”
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132022
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By dawn, she is ready to hunt.
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1320127
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They say I am filthy. On this high pillar I perch like a stuffed avian relic, flightless, no prey. The horizon before me is broken by scuff and foreign tongue, by atomized evil. Pleas, and there are many, are answered by the only prayer I know, the one prayer, which…
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132072
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and the President didn't call.
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132043
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Man, this bearskin rug was a big, awkward sonofabitch on his back....
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132034
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Dark morning sleet whitecrusts the world
once more, shrouds remains
of January thaw:
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132074
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Last night was full of little fists
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132001
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When the telephone rang the fallow fields we lay in years ago became distant countries, filled with falling stars. The distant country into which you had disappeared became a pistol with a single bullet in the chamber.
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132041
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... and that’s the story of the Polish worker who looks like van Gogh.
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132044
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That night, when Nostalgia knocked on my door just before dawn, I had just enough time to catch her coat as she slipped it off and staggered into my apartment.
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1320106
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Millennium jumped strumming lithium gum cumulative outnumber humiliated résumé jumpy instruments
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132052
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If Heaven holds forth its own Infinity, What of selves, of ours, could we stand to see? Cradled with harsh fangs of Memory, Deep forgetfulness, give rather me- Let bright dreams be our self's divinity: Forever holds, in morrow's hours, such little…
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132011
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Been running so long
You've been running so long
I bet you can't remember
What you're running from
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131931
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NO IDEAS FROM HERE Tape The knife that tore the envelope tore the apricot. What was it? Water The boxes ranked against the open room. Watch So it was cut the water bright the tub. Say …
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131900
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Without light it is black.
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