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Bipolar. Schizophrenic. Alcoholic.
Addicted. Abused. A reader?
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The urban-abused Chevy looked older than its seven years.
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Number the herd. Number/
the baskets after harvest./
Note the reappearance of the moon/
after its short absence.
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The sun was a dish of burnished courage
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A ten-ton bus with ill-manners going slow
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You slit your eyes and flick your cigarette in front of an oncoming car. I see how easily you could be that oncoming car.
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She’s not settling. She can learn to like this.
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"Did you ever steal any money?" he finally asked.
"Never. It was mostly toasters. There was the odd coffee maker or electric can opener ... but mostly ... toasters."
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I’m crouched behind my apartment window, practically going crazy.
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Poets die every day but are seldom in position to put the experience to literary merit.
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What happens in life when no one is watching?
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Sometimes the universe is a coin flipping so fast it’s hard to see which side is polished and shiny.
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Kenichi the boar arrived from the forest with the other elders. The police officers stepped back, awed by these large nature creatures.
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The waitress appears and Fred gives her a big smile and th3 once over. It's no wonder he's had so many women in his life while I've . . . uh . . . read a lot of books.
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Traffic, no need to be in a hurry.
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There’s not enough time because we come back to the things we never learn and forget them.
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Everyone wants to feel like the world has lined up against them and any achievement they have been able to attain was done despite the best efforts of everyone who isn't them. That's a given.
But there is one group of people who seem to have a point.
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I was only allowed ten hours in the tower a month so the Army in its infinite wisdom gave me lots of alternate duty which in the I-Corp area mostly meant loaning me to the Marines. That worked out because the alternate duty the Army came up with tended to
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Inspector Paumé hung up the telephone. He looked at Dan Arris, who was staring out the window, shook his head and walked into the bathroom one more time to gaze upon the naked dead body of Claudia Monschaud.
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The will to make/
remains
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I'm staying in swinging all night
Hell not just all night but every night
I can possibly sink my teeth into
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I am from slow diagnoses, impatience and parents skeptical of New York City doctors. I am from tall buildings, yogurt shakes, and envy for my brother's asthma machine. I am from here, stay away from there, don't get too close, be careful at the edge, the…
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Soccer Tease
Nerdvana
Ballsa Wood
Pulp Friction
Spam Folder
Fetal Position
Wayne Newton’s Yacht
Late Bloomers
Sir Real Geese
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Jack and Jane went up the hill.Give us a drink, said Jack. Here go, said Jane. They watched a bit of the city below, the city that was lit up by soft electrical lights. What say tonight Jane? Why so quiet? Many spirits are out Jack. They are all around. …
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That was all it took. Thirty seconds.Half of a minute.30: He was standing with me on the corner of the street, 29: waiting for the crosswalk to say it was okay for us to make our way to the other side. 28: The red "do not walk" signal changed to the white "join us over…
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It was a beautiful spring day and Jeremy was bursting with joy at being alive.
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Sea of indifference
Coming and going
Never committing
Like a fickle lover that erodes a hopeful heart
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They wait for me every morningthese two furry four legged catswhen they hear my car,their eyes open wide and they nuzzle each otherin anticipationof the food I bring them
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September 21, 2009 Dear Diary, She learned English by doing crosswords, my mom. I'm sure she picked up a few things from the people around her as well, but yeah, always doing crosswords. When I lived too far away to visit regularly, I bought a Scrabble…
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After too much
I had forgotten how to fly.
There was a small owl with me
on the old dirt road by the wind.
It was a very dark gray,
like an ash.
Its beak moved, it opened and shut,
opened and closed,
but I had also forgotten the language
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