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in moving cars i am small;
in moving cars i am invisible.
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134120
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During the night and in the fog of halfsleep Ben shifted and felt the weight of Miranda gone from him, the bed empty. In the quiet of the house he thought he heard a footstep and the soft shutting of a door, and as his eyes searched the dark he…
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134143
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the ones that have seen
the other seasons,
let them set up the track
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134000
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gods aren’t going to help you son
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134011
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I am tripping on poetry.
Purple ink drips from my eyes like ergot of rye.
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134000
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How do you do my name is Luigi and I am the Duke of Abruzzi. I love bubbles, strawberries, and sheets drying in the wind and sunlight. Hobbies include bank robbery, kidnapping, and extortion. As you can see, the streets…
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134021
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134021
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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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134031
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At school, Joe knew the answers to the questions. He used to jump up onto his desk and wave his arm before Mrs. Gestapo told him he would have to stop or he would go to the principal’s office, where the other kids said that the principal made you pull d
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134043
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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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134022
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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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133932
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His thoughts drifted to when he was a kid, to the monthly trip to the barber.
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133910
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Duffy struck an adversarial tone from the outset, offering up a first poem about improper expenses submitted by members of Parliament that ruffled feathers across party lines.
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133942
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Concrete coffeecake
drumbeat gyrate
Andy Rooney ran a meter.
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133953
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In the neon light and barroom shadows,
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133910
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Something is clearly wrong with them and we're supposed to socialize them.
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133911
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Jack Krackenthorpe, Director-General of MI-5, sat alone drinking tea in Lee Ho Fook, a third-rate Chinese restaurant in Soho a mile from his Curzon Street office.
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133954
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I suspect I’ll make the right decision.
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133922
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Often I want to kiss their lips
Drink in every word they have written
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133932
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It was May of my senior year in college. Everybody was coasting, knowing what they were going to be doing the next year, or that they’d be doing nothing. Except for one guy, Tom.
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It was in the last expulsion/explosion (theories differ) that we became OneWith. Tsunami. Seism. Zud. All matter cast out outcast came back like a gangster on crack. What did it think it was? Who do we think we are? It thinks we think it thinks…
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133987
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Did you really think you were going to cure cancer with that poem?
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133910
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Her questions apparently had their desired effect.
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133975
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One day, Dasha confessed to Igor that she had an incurable illness: Purple emptiness.
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133830
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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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133823
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I, Seer of the Stars, Cartographer of the Cosmos, / measure my mass, and to whom do I owe this woe...
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133874
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—A little blood puts some life into the work, said the old artisan smiling.
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133822
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“plain before my eyes” said he eyes swathed in bandages covering sight
oozing yellow fluid is this life thought i
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133811
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There is a false dawn,
when night still holds sway, but tempered with promise; anticipation.
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