1177 3 4
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Words reach out of my mind for paradise. And come back with rocks.
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1177139
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one season slips into another
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117788
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Then he said something that really made sense, said he kept a blank check in his back pocket...
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117731
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When the house was sold the new owners walked in on what they believed was a former life stopped cold. There on the table remained a half-filled teacup and a well-read magazine lying open from years gone by. A Royal Doulton dish set lay half packed on the
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117700
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Ben panicked momentarily. Which passport?
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117699
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Although I'm twenty years older than her, my girlfriend has called me "jailbait" for the past year and a half because she says the only way to stop having to share me is to kill my wife..
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117641
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B developed a thick emulsion that he paints onto the pieces of meat on which he prints photographs.
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117611
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Lover’s leap to a bank of smooth shale/
Where I sat drinking beer that past summer/watching a group of hard shell Baptists/line up to be saved in it’s muddy waters
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117620
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Emma held her arm up to John’s eyes. He looked, nodded. “My burns are on the inside,” he told her. “I’ll never show you.”
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1176168
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117600
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"Of course I know," Aidan rocked him gently in his arms. "I know, and I don't care. You need help carrying that stuff around, cause it really sucks to carry it around alone. I know, I've watched you. But baby, we're in this together now."
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117610
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117600
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Marie Poupon-Kennedy wasn’t strangled by one set of hands; there were thirty sets around that long, pale neck.
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117687
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. . . the roar of fire speaks lasting heat . . . .
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117642
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A Massachusetts nursing home that doesn’t believe in antipsychotic drugs uses a llama named Travis to calm patients.
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117520
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A minute later, a shadow appeared across the left-hand page of the book.
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117553
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dealing with an over-aged imaginary friend gone rogue
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117544
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They pull up to the curbside and he jumps out
to shake the hands in that familiar men’s
grasp/shake they do when saluting each other.
If that isn’t his daughter it should be, the one
sitting in his car, with her door wide open.
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117540
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Your clothes had been burned and your skin washed. They kept your boots at my firm insistence. I saw them write your name on the card. The card was black, and the ink was black. The writing was shallow and scratchy. The box they filed the card into was black and so…
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117500
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Vikki respond, "Say big guy, you eat pussy?"
The Mohawk flustered.
"Uh!?...Yeah...sure."
Vikki snickered, "Great. We got something in common. So do I."
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117533
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I'm the first child she ever knew that couldn't sing.
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117552
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Red leaves
green trees
wind chimes tune
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117500
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Michael lay on his back and counted his breaths, measuring their depth of inhalation and release.
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117553
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Small wonders, her worthless,priceless treasures fortify the wallswhile hoarded trinkets protect her like armor against memoriesof a desperate past.
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11751810
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But if He makes you happy, stands/
as bulwark against the vast, indifferent/
and deadly universe, then cling to Him
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117543
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Daylight and cold sensed as an abstract, a number in my mind. Air thin, polluted, lacking oxygen. But the Recyclers are at it again.
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117511
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our cogs
winding
and whirring
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117522
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his eyes see blood as circumstance.
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1175126
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Agamemnon and Menelaus were/
complete creeps. Achilles was//
a pompous piece of shit.
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117544
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Finding a soft pink blanket I prepared a place by the dirty window where he watched his world from a corner of his life.
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