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Why go outside where the gutters /
are fraudulent and clogged with popularity?
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125722
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125730
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Goodbye comes in stages. At first you recognize that you will “miss” someone when they are gone. Then you have to accept the fact that they are leaving. And finally accept the fact that they are gone; and not particularly in that order. If only it
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125743
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125674
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All this broken glass in the road
Tells the longest story l have ever told
Of how you lost your life and I my love
And how you still go wandering above
I don't know how I can return
To the planet where we used to thrive
Along this broken
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125632
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125622
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I keep the book when the lessons are done, go through the pages Momma skipped over...
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1256108
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125653
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His eyes begin to glisten like hot green wax pooling around the
wick
of a
pretty little candle.
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125631
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But I sense a tremor in your soul as well, young friend, a yearning of some sorts.
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125652
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This year, instead of giving roses or candy for Valentine's Day, why not give something your spouse will never forget.
A brand new divorce!
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125610
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The lace fell through the fingers, wrinkled and nimble they had become too used to avoiding the finite objects in life which needed attention. The white cotton sat loosely on her shoulders, the collar exposed the skin which had become dry and her shoulder
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125631
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It was New Year's Day. My cousin and I were having coffee. It was about ten at night. We were outside the establishment. She said: "Sometimes I think you're not happy. I see it in you."
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125620
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With some of these guys it was like propping a kid on a training-wheel bike, then steering the kid down the street til he figured out what to do next. Tricks would come into the bar. Roanne had a smile for all but the dregs…
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125643
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Your father's remembrance and memorial would be inappropriate for me to attend. never mind the truth the searing…
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125511
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I had put the child's wagon, which had been red once, back together again. “Honey”, I said, “I found out the garbagemen will pick up concrete this month.” So, I put…
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125542
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The cell was crowded, barely enough room to swing a cat.
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125500
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This will take forever. I’ll never get to Antibes to meet Isabella, much less make it to Marseille to deliver the picture and then catch the overnight train to Paris. I may have to call Jean-Claude Lyon, the orchestra manager of the Monte Carlo orchestra,
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125500
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the gambling priest stands in the morning fog/red moon hangs in the sky/the army of seven houses marches over the hill
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125574
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125511
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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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125542
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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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125566
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He can’t enlarge the rock—/
can only find its safest distance
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125594
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The woman took a small note card from her purse and wrote on it. She then stood, handed the card to the doctor, and said, “Call me.”
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125510
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“A story shines brighter through a tear in your eye,” You say
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125500
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In the tumbled-down now there's too much material, culled from pretty boys that don't notice me and tattooed ones that do, and I'm certain there's at least one dreamer soaking eyes into me who knows all the twisted lyrics invoking pretty little horses.
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125453
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POETRY IS DEGENERACY / IS A DISGUSTING HABIT
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125400
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gods aren’t going to help you son
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125452
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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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125400
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Do you know what it is to crave something? Of course you do. But this was different. This was beyond craving.
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