1179 1 2
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Old scars at night burn hot and bright
Deep in her heart in Texas
She rides around with the ragtop down
Driving her brand new Lexus
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“You take the woman, you get her records,” Dean said, and he didn't seem the least bit troubled by the Streisand album.
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1178 5 1
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It was the truth, you'd say. Then someone else would step in, someone who knew the situation. It wasn't long before the entire population of our sleepy little town became accustomed to your routine. It was even welcome in some circles. Those circles were made up…
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That’s where her reputation Wild Cat came from.
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1177 0 0
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He will spread peace like wet blood on a sheet.
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1177 0 0
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Popular wisdom would have it that heroin addicts are some kind of cross between vampire menace and low-rent cartoon.
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The renegade states- Virginia, Georgia,/
Texas, and the rest- should have lost their names
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Humanity comes without a choice
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What it was for, didn’t matter. When Susan walked into Fred’s house every few weeks and start talking, he’d just nod and say, “Sure, I know how tough it is out there, baby.” Then they’d drink some wine and put on some music, and he’d give her a little mon
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She approached him submissively, face down, eyes hidden by hair that moved with every shift of the current.
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You had autumn in your hair
I liked the way you sat at a table
And drank champagne
My past years have carried me
To sixteen countries
Christ, we have so much to share
Listen, I know how the other half lives
And we can’t live like that an
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If I was a bum
I’d risk everything
For a drink or a smoke.
I would beg and curse and steal
If I was a bum.
If I was a bum
I would cuss out the Pope.
I would not vote for anyone
Because I would know truly
They’d be telling gross lies.
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We are impressed and cheer them on/
in their struggle against the wild/
and unkempt ravages of nature
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1177 2 1
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The main street has turned into the lowland of dust devils, with the red sun scorching, continuing to serve the living like a giant blood pentacle.It looks like a heathen ritual invoking an ugly looking God with wings or horns, but beneath the whirlwind of rising…
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She was, they said, everyman’s armful;
Bedding down with her was most likely harmful.
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1177 2 1
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The rhythm of my breathing
is a litany of regret.
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1177 2 1
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The sky was dressed in a wedding gown. The hooves of my horse clicked like consonants on the stone of the butte.
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There was nothing on the lake but a / faint sailboat and a shadowy gull.
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Will it//
scare us shitless when we can finally/
draw ourselves a likeness of it?
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1177 2 1
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How does Bandie feel about snakes? This is my thought. What good is a serpent without venom?
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Jo was tailored, Amy was frivolous with ribbons and bows, Meg was plain and sensible; and Beth, who was ill and had no costume changes, wore the same nightgown throughout the dress-up session.
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Miriam smiled as I entered through the old, creaky metal front door of her home. She sat still, face marked of deep wrinkles, tense with the pain only another cancer patient would understand. In that soft, sweet, melodic voice, she greeted me. '"Hello Ms. Monica, I've been…
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—Francesco, I wish you would give up smoking, said Michiko.
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1176 4 3
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And what about: there's this signature dessert at the restaurant where you are eating and it is called DEATH BY CHOCOLATE? And you know it is, because you've had it, and wow.
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Suddenly she feels the urge to go, the TV lounge, with its flat Ikea furniture and black sofas where two young men glowering sprawl, is unknown territory. She can imagine those eyes, mouths, hands all over her. One of them looks up and there is an unspoke
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"I see how little kids might find you creepy," she says between red velvet bites...
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He went for long, quiet walks. These seemed to quell the seething rages swirling about him as he exhumed and reconstructed the truth of himself.
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You don’t want to tango with me, she said.
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