1274 1 1
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I hear the undying screams of the children outside.
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1274 2 1
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Michiko never telephoned Frank from Washington or Chicago.
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1274 0 0
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What can I offer you, White Moon?This full night lays black before your stoic assent—and Ibreathe my final breath, frantic—for you. I wait, damned,a bestial lover in the broken dark of the variety market, whisperinga word of forgiveness to an empty window. I…
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1274 2 2
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I whispered, “I love you”
and then, “Goodbye”
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There were more of us before, laying in a puddle cuddling on the floor with heads tucked into the crooks of arms where light scattered their crowns in the morning and no machine exists for me to use trying to find that morning again. Carl could go off the side of the…
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The light they love to hate so much is always pulsating within each life; the unbelievable color sword of what happens next when any two people find each other in their hearts and all pretense is somehow gone, for at…
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1274 3 3
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Being burned with a branding iron really hurts. Everyone must have voted for the Forge because next thing I knew there was only God on TV
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1274 6 3
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Sorrow fences with fear and questions
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1274 15 8
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I'm standing on a toilet, trapped behind a stall. Watching Father U mop up the blood.
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1274 0 0
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My body continues to tread water through its daily existence and each day challenges me to find some sort of grounding. I often wonder who needs taking care of as I find myself sometimes spiraling in a downwards cycle-- not even taking a required break
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1273 1 1
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Opportunity, says Webster, is a, "favorable juncture of circumstances." In my Oxford book of quotations, there are seven famous lines about opportunity. Seven – that’s it! There are twenty-seven regarding failure. Seems it's been easier for the great
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1273 1 0
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Believe me, I would run if I could, but there seems to be a low haze of molasses clinging to my ankles.
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1273 4 1
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For hours and hours she swirled, and swirled some more. She was trying to be there for everyone, yet no one realized how much pain they were causing her. Some of them had thrown invisible darts of anger all day, and she had endured each one, because she c
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1273 0 0
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My toes curled together under the pathetic rag of a bedsheet, the frost creeping in through the two-inch deformity of the window on the left wall. I was tempted to sneak a glance at them to insure that they weren't black, but then decided that I'd…
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1273 3 2
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He paid the price for being a dick when he tried to write. The Muse did not care for violent behavior.
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1273 1 1
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I drink the funeral in a dream. I give satisfaction in voice overs.
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1273 3 2
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The last of the Kazan Tatar Khans. Each dome represents a severed head.
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1272 5 3
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And there on the street
Were a bunch of frantic pigeons
Picking over some discarded
Chicken bones
I mean they were really
Going to town on them
You know, frantic
Like there was no tomorrow
And then I saw it
A real sign of progress
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1272 2 1
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It was that awkward time when one didn’t know if the night’s lover wanted to see you again.
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1272 2 1
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“Lassie was a hack,” Jim the Wonder Dog says as he looks out over fields of soybeans. “She couldn’t act her way out of a 25 pound bag of Purina Dog Chow."
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1272 5 2
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She didn't know why she thought the ring wouldn't fit her finger, but it slid on easily and effortlessly, coming to rest in the old familiar place it always had, the groove that had worn in her finger after seven years of wearing it. She hadn't worn it in a few months,…
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1272 1 1
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As clever as clean bed sheets
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1272 4 0
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We all wish to partake in great events.
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1272 0 0
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Loving himself. Loved by no one. Loving no one.
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1272 1 1
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papa wants to dance - the future is so bright - feel good all the time baby
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1271 3 1
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the Tate Modern is like a dungeon!
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1271 2 0
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That’s not just a
trinket on her finger,
that’s a rock, a fortress,
a castle. No one
can scale those walls
except Joe Sixpack,
slumped beside her
at the airport.
They’re not a match.
I give it
5 years, max.
Not even.
Joe
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Call it what you may but misfortune, bad luck, disaster, adversity and trials of different calibers can hit us at any time.We are human. We experience the ups and downs of life everyday. Out of a job, lack of money, health insurance and other luxuries that some people…
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Now, as we sat on lawn chairs /
on the balcony to watch the meteor shower
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The bathroom had exposed rusty pipework, A minty lemonade smell, Ice in the urinal, And a wall of stone-cold mirror. She put some lipstick on, but it looked fake under the lint-covered bulb dangling overhead. She wiped off the lipstick but…
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