1318 10 2
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she lays there
wrapped in his baseball sheets
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131822
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He said, “It was only after I broke my neck and even like maybe a year later that I really started realizing that I had something to say.”
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131753
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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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131755
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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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131775
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Just a lot of honking and hissing.
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131711
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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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131762
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Why go outside where the gutters /
are fraudulent and clogged with popularity?
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131761
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The bison know a lot about Longfellow
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131685
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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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131611
|
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131652
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Fingers scrabble idly at pocket seams, forage between teeth, grasp for tepid cups, patter a drumbeat on knees.
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131630
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Most people don't understand what it's like being a pop idol. I am not most people. I am Tincture Shunt, and here I present you with my trajectory to stardom, in case you want to copy it for your own personal use. Unfortunately (for…
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1316105
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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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131630
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Thérèse Defarge felt the first drop around ten.
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131642
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And in the dark caves a new secret, hidden from flyby probes and the imagination of men. In these new caves, names for the loved ones, Bradbury, Clarke, Rover
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131610
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I bow my head
and shed the antlers
of past lives
I no longer butt heads
with the universe
but I miss my curse
and can’t do worse
I throw myself in reverse
and rehearse the early scenes
of science and my
full meat diet
that sent
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131621
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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 …
|
131663
|
Sorrow fences with fear and questions
|
131643
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I come up and out of the hole onto a village street in the middle of a parade celebrating the arachnid god.
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131531
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After ten days in Jeddah, I start to miss the rain back home in Tennessee....
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131551
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Samson was also somewhat in hopes that his son Jason would become engaged in this minor capitalist enterprise and 'turned around' in his life.
|
13151310
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I'll see her this fall, a redhead in camo
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131520
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A minute later, a shadow appeared across the left-hand page of the book.
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131574
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—A little blood puts some life into the work, said the old artisan smiling.
|
131520
|
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
|
131500
|
Do you know what it is to crave something? Of course you do. But this was different. This was beyond craving.
|
131523
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Now, as we sat on lawn chairs /
on the balcony to watch the meteor shower
|
131500
|
The day was yesterday, November 11, 2010. I was home from work, and I pulled my car into the driveway. I stopped short of the garage to get out of the car and get the daily mail. Bills and unwanted coupons for places I didn't go and for items I don't…
|
131500
|
After all, if she could get through World War II with no more than a couple of letters and numbers on her arm, she could, sure as hell, get through this.
|
131577
|
She rubs her head into mine...
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