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I drove all night, but there weren’t nothing Roy Orbison about it. I’d been driving and around lunchtime I just thought I might stop by Shona’s place.
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135200
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" ... that’s a seriously good result for an opening night."
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135264
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You have at least
an intermittent belief.
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135100
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“A lot of kids–granted, kids who aren’t too bright–will choose a school because of its mascot, and that’s what Chipper is all about,” he says.
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you look like
the insides of my cheeks
chewed.
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135176
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bullets in flight make sharp, snapping noises.
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135123
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I even listen to the Ugly Kid Joe version. I fall asleep perplexed and disheartened.
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135163
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Can we meet in the desert,
I will stand with a cactus flower clenched
between my teeth and balance en pointe.
I will tame snakes and find your serpent
tongue with my eyes closed.
I will usher in the clouds, when it grows hot,
and, should you becom
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135100
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“Now, “Pour Some Sugar on Me” is a hit of the eighties.”
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135110
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Seems hot for a Thursday, doesn’t it?
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135121
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Dawn is a grey mass, what is left of the night's chill slips between my t-shirt and belly skin. Somewhere else you once wrote that being loved when you don't love in return equals rape.
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135043
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Nature is perfect... We can never learn that much
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135064
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My supper consisted of no cheese
My marriage consisted of no violin
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135043
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destroy the day
rip up the track
jump in the water
eat nothing but bugs
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A little boy sits at the table. He hears a knock at the door.“Mo-om!” the boy calls out. “Door!”His mother comes from the kitchen, wiping her hands on her clothing.“Jesus!” she says. “Would it kill you to answer the…
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Joseph and his little brother, Kevin, were there again. Kevin was too small to understand what had happened yet. He would usually just go off, running around the statues and playing with the wreaths; the last time they'd visited he climbed a tree and broke one of the…
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In the end they talked a lot, shared what they could, both seemingly trying to rekindle something that was no longer hot, and yet they could not let go of each other. Year after year would prove that. Right then, just then, it seemed that the physical par
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If you find a lone, sad honeybee, buy a Habitrail cage and make it your new pet.
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135022
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This really bothered me, and I questioned my penis about it.
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135040
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Green hands
wave
in freezing water.
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134900
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You sleep in equative lip biting slumber
hugging a pillow you think is someone else.
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134941
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His only sibling had passed a few years back and his mother was the only one left of a gaggle of 7 brothers and sisters and their spouses. The turning of the generations, from birth to grave, was always a bit like the tilling of the ancestral soil. A new
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By the time she reached home, dinner would be there in thirty minutes, on the table. Not a lively table, just politeness, and calm. There were no issues of the day that needed discussing, no problems to be solved.
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We're alone and besieged / by badness.
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134941
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In praise of the colorful flock with crowns
of teased cotton candy rising high above
Modular walls, stalled operating systems
staling coffee and pale corner offices
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His cheeks were extremely pink but the pink was not the shade usually associated with good health, it was the pink of Death.
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