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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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136897
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I COULD always sleep. Go "home" now and sleep. My body and my fetus—who complain of this torture—would appreciate sleep. I have something to do that is not sleep. I have something to do that is not sleep. I have to try to wake.
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136731
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For years, Nina lived in an apartment with furniture that was silver or clear or metallic, she could see her reflection in every surface. She had an enormous television that took up one entire wall of the small living room. She and Anna and Desmond, Nina's downstairs …
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136711
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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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1367113
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She called for land usage to fulfill a social function, to provide an affordable and sustainable way of life for all.
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136730
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From the earth it erupts
Growing longer, stronger, as the sun rises and sets
Days and nights pass, bringing the wind, the rain, the moon, the stars
A place of shelter it becomes
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136740
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We light cigarettes, take turns putting them out on each other's arms, legs, anywhere hard without a mark. It's living, he says, it's better to know you're alive than feel nothing at all. My brother is two years older than you, I was thinking on Tuesday,…
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136711
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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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136721
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136762
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I smell ham and biscuits
I ain't eatin' Triscuits
No more
No more, no more
Gonna get back on my Harley
With my mutt named Bisquick Charlie
I just ain't eatin’ Triscuits
No more, no more
And I heard you know the score
Yeah, I know you
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136700
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each vertebra is a golden cavalier, brave in upright vigilance; stoic heroes.
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136720
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How many years has he dreamed he would be home again?
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136797
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The same, some things you Can't explain, most trees Have felt it go bone dry at the roots before. I've learned to let love Go bye bye. You think they don't Want to answer your pathetic knocks, But they're…
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136720
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It was the most prestigious cashier position in the entire state!
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136620
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"I need a male friend, and I think I've found one."
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136611
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I am tripping on poetry.
Purple ink drips from my eyes like ergot of rye.
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136600
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an island hidden in the sound holds treasure
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136611
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There is a false dawn,
when night still holds sway, but tempered with promise; anticipation.
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136621
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Michiko never telephoned Frank from Washington or Chicago.
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136644
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Last night I decided to go through my bag of wind and sort things out. I'm a hoarder, and wind is no exception. I collect winds. I found two siroccos, five simooms, three foehns, eight Chinooks, ninety gales, thirty zephyrs, two nor'westers, a monsoon, a…
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136653
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In the neon light and barroom shadows,
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136663
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It's lunch in the car time at 5:30 pm
The car sits next to the mattress delivery truck
in hope of receiving a blanket of shade
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136610
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136631
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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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136642
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"Aren't you free to say whatever you please?"
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136674
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136600
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That was nearly two years and a thousand smiles ago.
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136611
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Vladimir walked down the little path next to the creek with us. I stopped along the way and picked off a sliver of some of the bedrock that was sticking out alongside the narrow path, to take home with me as a souvenir of my family castle, just to be ab
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1366185
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another paper saving 55er
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1366158
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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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