1319 4 3
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Nature is perfect... We can never learn that much
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131900
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“You've got to be kidding me. A robot?”, said Marge as she rotated in the chair at her desk. She removed the leaf of paper from the typewriter and set in down on the desk. She looked up at Parkins who was leaning against the wall nursing a cold cup of…
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131911
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131900
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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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131943
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destroy the day
rip up the track
jump in the water
eat nothing but bugs
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131942
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Outbreaks of mass communal dancing—sometimes referred to as “choreomania”—occurred in Europe with some frequency in Europe between the 14th and the 18th centuries.
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131911
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The man was sitting at his makeshift kitchen table. He was forty-five years old. He wore his mortarboard with tassel whenever he left his home. Once inside either a reputable establishment or one generally considered less so, he was sure to take off his m
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131977
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I saw the shiny dime . . . .
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131900
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" ... that’s a seriously good result for an opening night."
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131933
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. . . we agree that formal standards for identifying literary merit exist and are capable of being discerned, not merely of being ascribed. —but is this itself true?
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131943
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131922
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"Which way ought we to go from here," he asked.
She smiled again, "that all depends on where we want to get to." He nodded but didn't laugh so she sighed and strolled around the room, tuning and looking and considering her options.
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131944
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Poems reflect their poets. /
Mine: ugly but loved. /
It is just as well.
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131911
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I noticed Sean changed after his grounding. We no longer played night soldiers around the block, no longer biked to the creek to catch crayfish he'd crush with his boots. Sean stopped hunting lizards, stopped charging smaller kids toll to pass…
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131931
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My first time alone with the women in Saudi Arabia...
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131932
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The young monk rose early to jog,
his appetites trailing like
cats in heat.
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131985
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From words to meaning― how complicated it is.
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131910
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kindergarteners
sent to class with
Uzis
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131822
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All the baby monsters are being born on stage.
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131845
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She arranged to have an abortion at a doctor Greene’s office, who practiced out of a converted house on Solano Avenue on the north side of Berkeley. I took her there the day of the procedure. You couldn’t go to a regular hospital to have this kind of thi
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131821
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She said it feels wrong. Too wet, she said. I snickered, she smacked.
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131810
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at the front of the bus/ sways a white-veiled woman:/ gnarled hands upon/ a bag of palms,
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131851
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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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131822
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Why do you lie? the old woman repeats when her mouth is not busy filling the waste bin. We sit as far away from her wheedle and wretch as the small waiting room allows. A young woman glares at us through the mental health clinic's safety glass…
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131898
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we’ll never win/
the ongoing battle with dirt.
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131866
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The moon, a cataract cloaked in its charcoal fog, slowly seeps among the trees; night's unguent.Its glance is constant and white,its arc known. I watch its brow of bone with constant wonder.The long, slow funeral of America is taking its time; its…
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131821
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“The minute I stopped wondering about
the meaning of life is when I
finally started enjoying life.”
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131852
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Someone desperately dials a number.
Iris, draped tight.
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131841
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A bum leaves his shopping cart
in the middle of the intersection
at 7th Ave and Perry St
and walks away
leaving everything behind
Shopping cart gets hit
by an onslaught of
yellow taxis whizzing by
The contents flying out
into the hum
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1318159
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far beyond the far beyond
sparkles the stars like sparkles
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