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Concrete coffeecake
drumbeat gyrate
Andy Rooney ran a meter.
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117900
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Zal’s first day on the job they had 16 customers. They took turns crying, “Bring out your dead!”
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117940
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"Well, you certainly can't be marrying him then .. "
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117910
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The cab split the thread of oncoming traffic into water barrels and telephone poles.
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117921
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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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117900
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Last time I saw the American Dream was Tuesday, down at the Unemployment Office. He was looking pretty worn out, as if being unemployed for over a year was finally getting to him.
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117900
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This was how he circumnavigated people, bartering like a viking setting prices on the edge of an ax-blade.
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117901
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She excelled at plowing forward. He excelled at staying in one place. Eventually the distances got too great and she put an ocean between them.
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117900
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My writing career began with sitting around the tree eating Christmas presents.
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117931
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And the urban sprawl doesn’t hesitate. All around me, I taste the aftermath of bricks, dust and dirt, freshly laid concrete slabs.
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117921
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The pawnbroker sat behind bulletproof glass at the rear of the display area, a veritable potentate of hope and cash, exchanging expendable items for derisory cash.
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117998
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decline the proffered hand
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117910
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She was wearing a black tank top and jeans, standing in the shade. Why was she there again? The camera hanging around her wrist answered her question. Right, he had called. He had asked if she could take picture for him and his…
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117911
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I drink the funeral in a dream. I give satisfaction in voice overs.
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117921
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—Christ all mighty, said Ben to himself as he watched Isabella and Leona enter the bank. Those are some extraordinary examples of female flesh.
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117976
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I fancy myself a spy. Unofficial official of the H. O. A. Super secret free agent agent of the Glenwood Homeowner's Association. Even the board is unaware of the work I do in their name, without the faintest utterance of their name. Only the highest of the high, the…
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117932
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The last of the Kazan Tatar Khans. Each dome represents a severed head.
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117962
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Why go outside where the gutters /
are fraudulent and clogged with popularity?
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1179129
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The gulls/
have somehow mastered the art//
of avoiding the nooses of six-pack/
plastic rings
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117854
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117821
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Butter me up, moon lover. Remember, I was once your warm and hot goddess of flowers, washed to shore with the others you may have forgotten. Now the issue of the earth gets nearer, and we can see each other once again, if only in our dreams.
Just be
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117800
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gods aren’t going to help you son
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117854
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Eroica sprawled among/
the horns and violins
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117811
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my soul is black and it's deep like heartbreak and heavy as stone and as thick as ink and it is pressing on top of me like last nights one night stand like dead weight so that I can't lift my arms or spread my legs it feels like I am walking through mud but it's…
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117822
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* — Eligibility conditions apply, no purchase necessary.
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117810
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When I was a boy and just out of seminary school, I went to a Doors concert and heard Jim Morrison sing his song ‘Soft Parade’ – it changed my life.
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117830
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A kind of sucking darkness into
A kind of noir celebration of despair
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117800
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117820
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As we follow the trail and things snap beneath our feet, I tell myself that the snapped things take pleasure, find purpose even, in the sounds they make with my soles.
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