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There is something preposterous /
about existing in a universe so vast: /
Such a big playground for such tiny children, /
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1306105
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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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130630
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Thérèse Defarge felt the first drop around ten.
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130697
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the pressure from my lungs threatened to burst my eardrums.
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130622
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Often I want to kiss their lips
Drink in every word they have written
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130655
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“After your death is confirmed,” I assured him, “a hardcover first edition of your books, will sell for millions at auction in New York.
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130622
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Douchey Jake made me cry until my eyes puffed so much I couldn't see through them. I said hey look, to my friends who slept on the futon, don't I look like one of those dolls with the real fake eyelashes? The truth is I've been pretending I don't…
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130523
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Now, as we sat on lawn chairs /
on the balcony to watch the meteor shower
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130511
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There is a false dawn,
when night still holds sway, but tempered with promise; anticipation.
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130575
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Just a lot of honking and hissing.
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130500
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each vertebra is a golden cavalier, brave in upright vigilance; stoic heroes.
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130522
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I whispered, “I love you”
and then, “Goodbye”
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130510
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130555
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right/rite:
Your touch smooth as impulse/
Swaying my mind
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130500
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The Gringovitch family was gathered in the lobby of the hotel. The boys sat on the floor using their packs as back supports. Francesca Gringovitch sat on a chair with the remaining luggage in front of her.
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130533
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“C'mon Billy, don't be s-s-s-s-scared.' said the voice coming from under the bed. Billy looked over the side and saw a pale white, bony right hand with it's forefinger beckoning him protruding out from below. The nails were yellowed and cracked. And long. Very, very…
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130521
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She felt like she was turning into someone else, someone who appeared normal. She would be inundated with everyone else's ideas, morphing into an insipid lemming, smiling and bantering about mindless things. She wouldn't even care she had changed...
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130563
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Sorrow fences with fear and questions
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130400
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Detective-Sergeant Claude Mulvihill sat in his squad car, which was parked on 54th Street in front of Bright Star Recording Studios. He had just finished the second of two jelly donuts and was spiking his coffee with three packets of sugar.
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130400
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Their laughter is of a tiny world that knows nothing of taxes or lost loves, or news reports of flag-draped coffins filled with limbs.
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1304178
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What are the odds of August rain in Texas?
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130400
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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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130465
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They got slices of greasy salami
On top of round mini carrots, celery
Pepperoncini, slices of sweet pickles
They got cinder block walls
A Tiki Bar with glasses hanging
Upside down from the stemware over the bar
They got wood paneling, cottag
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130411
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He’d've been up there belting out the hymns then bickering with the vicar after.
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130421
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A meaningful conversation Subdued the huge Toys “R” Us question mark Standing sun-bleached and sprinkler-dirtied In our flowerbed On the patio Explode your fanny pack, A clinking most dangerous The Mysterious: Its …
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130464
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He peels the garlic while I stir the lentils; he chops the cilantro while I peel kale leaf from stem. Also, the rings. Also, no one is going anywhere.
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130422
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I caught a fragment of a charged argument as I passed them. The young man said, “Well, I am talking about love.” And the young woman with equal volume checkmated with, “Well, I am talking about money.” Though their lives were none of my business, this exc
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The only resolution I ever kept was when I said I wasn't going to create any more resolutions, and now I'm going to break that one.
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