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They borrowed birds from the trees
And forced me to sing along with them
You could say they made my heart burn
But we all know some of that was fake
It was a direct route
From sleep walking
To sleep shopping
To this
I guess I lived a
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125442
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Most of the deer around here have a higher IQ than the hunters.
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125464
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It was an autumn day, late in the afternoon, a Tuesday, when the last murderer died. There was no official announcement. Indeed, she and her crime had been forgotten. Pancreatitis, her cause of death. Quite treatable, the cancer. Nothing could be done for the gene that…
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First have a good window seat
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“Shane, will you turn off the lights?” Jean asked. “Film really is much better with the correct lighting.” “I believe you,” Shane said while he switched off the lights, blanketing the room in complete darkness. The large TV on the…
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125400
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With a deep breath she closed her eyes. Azure saw where she was at through night vision.
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125454
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proper words fail to get proper points across . . . truthful words have no beauty,/beautiful words have no truth.
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125421
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Ever the chance we were given, with luck always, fate. At least we engendered the song and the drink. Having sailed from the goddess of sensual love, having the best throw that beauty allowed, now you can call it will, though some will call it hate.
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125487
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a fat crow rapturously caws over its good fortune...
not a morsel left on the street,
not even a bloodstain
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125411
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god's seed is asleep in the carseat
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125421
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I have to find a way To evolve To become To grow into something else To become something else I have to find a way To let go Loosen my firm grasp Watch it all fall away Let myself fall away Drop this act This weight This mess of a life This mess I…
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125422
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Momma wakes us up early while Daddy's still asleep, pulls out white poster boards, markers from the closet, and together, we draw babies...
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125443
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This grey is going to kill me
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125332
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driving and standing in front of the same car
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125300
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Ben shook his head in disbelief: Was this some theatrical soothsayer trick of Ida’s?
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125341
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“You're bendable,” he said, and then there was this silence as we looked into the space in front of us. I understood what he meant right off and thought it a gift to speak to someone that did not get the words exactly right, but in not doing so, got…
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125300
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He will spread peace like wet blood on a sheet.
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125300
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When I was alive with you inside me, I discovered briefly and finally how to fly. Up near your ceiling as I floated around the universe with widening eyes, like a butterfly, like a god, like a bird with golden hair at my neck, like a speckled moth infla
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125320
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Keep it quick (and they usually did) and it was simple.
Quick as the walk between their houses, from number 27 to number 33 (odd numbers only), and simple as the alibi.
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125354
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We’ll just choke on all our shit
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125300
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Carl was tight with stress, he is the lead architect and developer on a new condo in the newly gentrified section, DUM-AS, (which stands for Direct U-turn from Manhattan-Almost Scary.) Carl’s condo is one of a pair of new condo’s erected at the same time
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125321
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By the time I got back to the island only Henson was still alive. He didn’t speak; the gun said it all.
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125333
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a midge smothered
in the light of disarray
crawls back into the sage
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1253149
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... and August's drought/
will yellow lawns, singe the shrubs,/
and amplify cicada song.
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125395
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Someone must bear witness//
at a comfortable remove.
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125300
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A few months back, Bob Delaney, the old Black Hole’s man with the plan (and more importantly, the check-signing authority), hired a young new guy named Gary — who had the unfortunate last name, Indiana — as a geriatric nurse at Bufordsville Retirement Com
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Late in the morning, standing in line, clutching a bag of Meow Mix, I listen to the woman waiting behind me. She's having a cell phone conversation about the Treasures of Ancient Egypt exhibit. It‘s in New Orleans, she says, and the kids liked the mummy. I slide…
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125352
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Red leaves
green trees
wind chimes tune
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125300
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Michael lay on his back and counted his breaths, measuring their depth of inhalation and release.
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They pumped him full of electricity and waited.
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