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The Fat Man took a sip of whiskey, then replaced his glass on the table next to his fedora. …
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132022
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Let your father stay
through that dinner
when his mistress needed him,
while your mother was on the verge.
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132031
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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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132010
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Me leaving is not the confirmation of all your fears. It is not. It's because of them.
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132000
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When the lore of the land could no longer hold the minds of men, they turned their eyes to places where they expected to find no other gaze.
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131965
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131920
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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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131952
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lift my love and be lifted
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131921
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Listening too much to the night, with its whistles, bright lights of luminescent bursts like leaves on fire, or the raised ear of a cow in the purple mist, or the curled tail of a pig foraging in the night.
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131922
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The boy in the elevator with round glasses, /
who carried a newly-purchased broom, /
was tall and burdened with clothes
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131922
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It didn't matter if they burned or not.
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131900
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"It all began with a painting," I said. "Mostly blue. Acrylic. Naturalistic in a modern sense. She was stylized but recognizable, and her breasts were exposed. Everyone could see her disordered skirt. The painter was a fan of Herrick.
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131931
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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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13191212
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A thin line separated her lips, like something sketched with a pencil.
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131911
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He is sleek with hearts and I see a different name etched onto each one.
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13192918
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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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131920
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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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131944
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But in 1991 Carmen developed a heroin habit and was forced to sell her powder blue, convertible Mercedes 500SL...
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131800
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An hour later, we're no closer to the tunnel. In our rental car, we're just two in a school of a thousand fish skimming the edge of the island. Go with the flow, we keep saying to each other. We're just going with the flow. …
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131800
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Call it what you may but misfortune, bad luck, disaster, adversity and trials of different calibers can hit us at any time.We are human. We experience the ups and downs of life everyday. Out of a job, lack of money, health insurance and other luxuries that some people…
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131842
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He saw in her something fierce and wild
and gently led her to
his open palm...
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131800
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Last week I heard that there is a new horror movie out about Abe Lincoln, with the plot of the film involving the tallest of presidents hunting down vampire bats with his axe while suspending habeas corpus, writing lame speeches about the freedom of man, restoring the…
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131842
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Concrete coffeecake
drumbeat gyrate
Andy Rooney ran a meter.
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131800
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Slowly, she eased me
into my place
where I melted
into the dark seat
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1318119
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131800
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Ben woke in a black mood. His head was ready to explode and his throat was raw
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131843
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I saw you hold her as if you were copy writing a ball of yarn
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131800
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I hear you calling me, as if through water spilled within a glass--
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131800
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They are kind of cool though I’ll admit…pretty types with perfect angles and poise and judicial daddies and shade tree homes, holding their books preciously against their tight bodies as if they’re into academics or something.
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131822
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for Tracy ThornYou don't need a song about fixed stars, you needa reason to be glad stars are here. Themoon's always been around, but not always like the friend you want,until now. Don't throw it all away becauseyou are too sad to care. You've come into your own. Allthings…
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