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They talk but they don’t really / talk
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135200
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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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135253
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you look like
the insides of my cheeks
chewed.
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135275
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135210
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Then there she is, and she makes me love-sad; it's a vehement, absolute, hard love-sad no one else needs to understand, though they can see; it's an emotion so concrete it's felt from the chest, not from a tenuous concept called heart.
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135261
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Later, you've hit that four shot espresso limit; you've snarfed down that too rich mushroom korma… gone before you tasted it.
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135220
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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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135210
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Seems hot for a Thursday, doesn’t it?
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135221
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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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135231
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135143
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Nature is perfect... We can never learn that much
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135120
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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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135141
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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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135123
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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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135176
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bullets in flight make sharp, snapping noises.
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135143
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My accordion's name is Sophia and she is from Italy. She was born in fairytale fashion, the way my life in Madrid can sometimes be. A great and nurturing friend gathered money from many friends in our village, to buy me an accordion for my birthday. It was…
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135111
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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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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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135142
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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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1351127
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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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135140
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Green hands
wave
in freezing water.
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135000
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You sleep in equative lip biting slumber
hugging a pillow you think is someone else.
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135041
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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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135064
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My supper consisted of no cheese
My marriage consisted of no violin
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135021
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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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135043
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destroy the day
rip up the track
jump in the water
eat nothing but bugs
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135022
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This really bothered me, and I questioned my penis about it.
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