1228 1 1
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He is sleek with hearts and I see a different name etched onto each one.
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1228 10 3
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I am beginning to worry. There is something that they are not telling me. I am afraid that something bad is going to happen.
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1228 2 2
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This really bothered me, and I questioned my penis about it.
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1228 3 0
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Goodbye comes in stages. At first you recognize that you will “miss” someone when they are gone. Then you have to accept the fact that they are leaving. And finally accept the fact that they are gone; and not particularly in that order. If only it
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1228 4 1
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Monkey Business
Low Ceiling
Wagging Tongues
Guest Sweet
Murphy’s Law
Kinda Hot
Stopit!
Freedom Ring
Lumpy Oatmeal
Better Not
Butter Up
Grumpy Umpire
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1227 0 1
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It looks like Arizona, like a desert with secrets. The bed unfolded and she was being good today. She would be good, no matter how he moved and laughed she would be a lady. The names of the flowers escaped her, flowers she'd always known. All she saw were waterlilies.…
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1227 14 10
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looked briefly – glanced
shouted loudly – yelled
fell down – fell
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1227 0 0
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"You are stuck in the past like the jiggling leather of that wrestler's skin."
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1227 1 1
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I hear the undying screams of the children outside.
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1227 2 1
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Michiko never telephoned Frank from Washington or Chicago.
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1227 6 3
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until i french kiss every atmosphere
my mouth ready to explode
like roman candles
sparking my fingers sparking off the tips
of my sparking fingers
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1227 0 0
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Rains came again and wore away at their flesh, revealing bone as white and sharp as sharks’ teeth.
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1227 4 1
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Lipstick on the bolt, she told herself, if it's no good in the slot anymore.
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1227 4 4
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The Managers are always to be found in twos or threes, lumbering greyly.——If you pass the Managers in a corridor it's a good idea to say hello. They will probably return your greeting, as best they can.——The Managers conduct meetings. They sit at the…
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1227 0 0
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Some friends of mine took him for a ride out to Broad Channel, you know that enclave of crazies that live in houses on stilts on the island in Jamaica Bay on Cross Bay Boulevard. He might find that when the tide comes in, the water might be a little deepe
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1227 1 0
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"The Genius has since abandoned all hope of seeing full remission of the Great Descending Haze in his lifetime."
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1226 5 5
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Meaning is harder to sell, unless it’s an analysis of why there is a Justin Bieber.”
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1226 6 3
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We were born here. At the top of the stairs underneath a painting of basset hounds playing croquet. And a hallway closet filled with lost someones. And the police, three times a week, singing nursery rhymes while walking up to our door.
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1226 1 1
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There is a false dawn,
when night still holds sway, but tempered with promise; anticipation.
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1226 1 1
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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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1226 0 0
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He met her at midnight just off the plane and they sized each other with silent growing awareness that no matter what might transpire in distant tomorrows, each served here now as passports to magic and lands far away. On the…
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1226 2 2
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It didn't matter if they burned or not.
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1226 15 5
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Her captors allowed her the use of the toes of one foot. It was hard to pretend she was numb—as if playing an artic game indoors. With the ball of her foot, she primed the canvas. Her big toe acted as a fan brush, the rest were sable, flat, or pointy. She told…
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1226 5 5
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Against//
the mysteries and the dark/
it illuminates and shapes
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1226 6 5
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we were all meant to do with our love? What I can think of is to ask the question again. I suppose there are others more willing to supply you with a proper answer, but none seem real to me. These words are only stones,meant to skip across the…
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1226 7 3
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Spring show its populist face,
Flies in the house, missionaries at the door...
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1226 0 0
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Azure analyzed her surroundings. There were potted plants along the walls. It reminded her of the dormitories at Memorial Academy. Each room had a number.
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1226 7 7
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Over dinner last evening she said things have to change because she can never be happy with our lives being so concentric and I knew she meant that while we share the common core of marriage, she felt she was a small circle and I was a larger one, enveloping her,…
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1225 0 1
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I told him that the beehive he had for a brain was overpopulated and that he couldn’t seem to go for one minute without desperately thinking that I was going to leave him when I’m sure I gave him no evidence to that effect at all
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1225 0 0
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Something like: Answers to questions you might not yet have?
[Answers we will try hard not to provide]
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