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It sits there, watching, waiting, multiple cycles over.
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Traffic, no need to be in a hurry.
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I got my new dog today,
a toy terrier, as advertised,
from an online retailer,
and printed him or her,
I’m not sure which,
because of an inherent glitch
built into the system,
on my new 3-D printer,
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I knew there was something wrong with the sunset when I woke up.
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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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Suddenly you've got something to do on Sundays -
Wake up early and dress your best.
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I find that I am keeping silent more often. I don't like repeating myself.
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What was it about the aged and cookies? Here was another one that relished them. Sebastian's grandmother was a specialist. People on the outside thought she was a bird enthusiast. Grandma could be seen refilling the bird feeders at all hours. After the morning…
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To understand how and when things have gone wrong, it works best to proceed from the beginning and put them in order.
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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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When I mentioned my visit to the museum during an A.A. meeting, I wanted to know whether the framers of The Big Book had been aware of the Nazi hospital sterilization and “euthanasia” programs.
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I really need to go to the bathroom.
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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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The banality of his own state of boredom, a luxury to be satiated with violence, to hack with an axe the exposed neck of his friend.
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Tom wasn’t crying.
A few snowflakes, the first of the season, flittered down and landed on Elizabeth’s new headstone, christening it. Tom didn’t have his topcoat, and he never buttoned his suit. He tried not to shiver. Lynn lifted her face from Tom’s c
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It was a beautiful spring day and Jeremy was bursting with joy at being alive.
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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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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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With whatever else physicists may learn . . . perhaps they will begin to see that the connections between the physical world and non-physical domains of existence have an explanatory power which has only barely been considered.
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I wrinkled my face up
in the glare and warmth of the sun.
I baked easy in the hovering heat
and my spot-speckled skin ate
up the rays and swallowed deeply.
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer. The rain comes down in sheets.
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The sun was a red beet and it waited low in the sky but I didn't know for what reason. You could look right at it and forget for an instant about tenement buildings and hydro lines, or the dirty city in general. I tied my shoes and got some water…
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In the tang of winter warm
and summer cool,
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Couldn’t
we
just
do
a
quick
ie
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Here comes the bus. It’s going to Tuscany and is full of pronouns: he, she, me, you, it, them, us, we, and you again.
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My first winter in Massachusetts feels medieval: cold, dark, and endless.
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As being ebbs it deepens. The mind grows truant. We inhabit a permanent Saturday.
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The will to make/
remains
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I’m crouched behind my apartment window, practically going crazy.
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