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The rat had been informed, assured, cajoled in order to gain his assent—duly lied to, in other words, by the researchers with not one tear of remorse, with no smudge or smear of conscience . . .
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He sat behind her in Honors English, each day studying everything about her.......
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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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Is this a tenure track position?
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The cab split the thread of oncoming traffic into water barrels and telephone poles.
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If I had slept a little longer, I/
would not have seen this rarity at all.
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So, once, we were all like sitting around the kitchen table, and it was so kind of like an okay sort of day to begin with. We were all like a secret theater of strangers, a living children's secret circle, meeting right in…
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They got slices of greasy salami
On top of round mini carrots, celery
Pepperoncini, slices of sweet pickles
They got cinder block walls
A Tiki Bar with glasses hanging
Upside down from the stemware over the bar
They got wood paneling, cottag
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I lounged in my captain’s chair growing a beard. Things continued in this way and then the president called.He wanted to know the meaning of virtue.
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Pictures of war correspondents from The Tribune, and colonial photographs in a fruit crate
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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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“Honorable condominium association members,” the leader begins. “I apologize for not having a PowerPoint slide show tonight, but me and my muchachos travel light.”
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What was it about the aged and cookies? Here was another one that relished them. Sebastian's grandmother was a specialist. People on the outside thought she was a bird enthusiast. Grandma could be seen refilling the bird feeders at all hours. After the morning…
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Even the fruit from the nearby orchard (which I, in part, nourish) batters my stone to rot.
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You think you are a perpetual motion machine, free of thermodynamic law. I’m telling you, you’re wrong.
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"Well, you certainly can't be marrying him then .. "
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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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The first intimation that something was afoul was when his computer crashed.
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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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The machines of her perception/
tuned themselves to frequencies//
that peeled her skin and fatty tissue
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Side morning lightthrough hydrangea crab, reachand shine off patio ice
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He followed me through the crowds at Grand Central Station.
Wherever I went, there he was,
half my height, dressed in the characteristic gold and maroon garb,
with a paper cup of coffee in his hand.
He must have sensed something about me.
Th
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The broken car horn wailed for 40 days and 40 nights.
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My first time all started with the girl on the bench. She had those perfect eyes, you know the ones, where you see them and you just can't help wanting to take everything she has on her. Those kind of eyes. And I saw them first. I was the first one there that morning at the…
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I will not leave the boat.
The sea has left you.
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When daybreak comes, it falls a pall pást mé, For it descends too soon for woken sight to see A shade of any gladness in its dew's first blisters: All my dreams of daylight are in darkling whispers Of…
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Poets die every day but are seldom in position to put the experience to literary merit.
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