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and springs its ready-made claws into action and takes a soppy chance that things will probably go its feline way today. But you, my friend, must you always throw the testing switch to high voltage on me? Yeah I get that the history teachers…
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He honestly could care less. We should converse, you and I, he says. All right, she says. She lays down the baster in her drawn out way, heel to toe on the countertop, one step in a…
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Rain and wind and the pecking of birds
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Better move ‘cause I hear them comin’ up the other side.
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A hot summer night walks into a bar and orders a drink.
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The English phrase "Nice to see you" translates into "My gall bladder is really warm today" in Berik, a language of New Guinea.
What Language Is, John McWhorter
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A decade, at minimum, was how long their notes had transpired.Still, they all knew how it would end.
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you knew the lightbent it in your favorleapt confidentlyacross heartscheeks and shouldersrouged chromaticincandescent pretendingperhaps the dark had no claimover your lonely clumsy soul© 2013 - Rene
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Ben was stuck between sweet essences and rancid Talmudic funk. It was going to be a long trip.
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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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Is it my imagination, or is her chair afraid of her?
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The river was frigid. Branches, empty cans, and used condoms float past me.I lost my jacket when I became snagged on a tree branch. My shoes are gone. My skin is blue-grey, as are my lips and fingernails. I've been face-down in this river for two…
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arrogant, sullen,/
supple and ambiguous,//
English seems the ideal tongue
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If you had a choice, be a poet or not,
I’d suggest prose for the lines that you jot.
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I whispered, “I love you”
and then, “Goodbye”
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I had this dream. We were living together, and we were in bed asleep when strange, enormous cats began crowding around our windows and meowing. They made awful scratching and scraping noises at the windows, trying to come in. But I couldn’t wake you up.
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Border town meant one thing; we were caught up real good in the middle of something preternaturally dangerous; and understanding was at the very least a hundred miles or so away in either direction. All I…
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you can reach me at
hashtag this!
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Night LifeThen things started getting weird. I could give you a time frame but it was back when times didn't matter really, one hour as good as the next and the minutes used to be minutes not the digital counting that makes this crazy world now spin. Here was…
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I don’t see the problem. In the country I come from, language is the best part of the game.
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No, your clever costume won’t protect you.
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“You know, Miss Viv, I love looking at the sun when it’s almost gone. It kinda looks like an orange and apple squished together. Those are the colors. And the puffy clouds under it look like a bed. It’s going to sleep."
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Sometimes the dirt just stays dirt
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All the baby monsters are being born on stage.
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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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Welcome back to our ongoing coverage of what we mean when we say "Tsunami: A Very Bad Thing."
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All I ask is that the guy has teeth and an income. More important are the teeth because he can always get a job, but he can’t un-rot the teeth he’s lost to meth.
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It's been almost two years since I bought it.
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we’ll never win/
the ongoing battle with dirt.
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