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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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1191127
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If you ask me I'm thinking I'm just blowing off some steam, some hot air that doesn't add up to the old cliche of a hill of beans. A hill of fucking beans.
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119194
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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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119111
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"Take the other arm, Jonas! Take the other arm," I said, laughing. "Make me a better god!"
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119172
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I'm transfixed in Tower Records,all the CD covers dancinglike a thousand little TV screens.Your whispers a remote controlchanging those flickering images.When security asks us to leave,you drive my car as I slumpagainst the window.I close my eyes and transport usStar…
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119110
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It wasn't the sun sparkling
Or the dog of the neighbor
Barking.
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119155
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Luke and Diane sat at a round white table looking around the room. There were clusters of people forming an archipelago of cordial exchange and small talk. All but a few were strangers, friends and family of his sister-in-law Mary, now a widow, though the word sounded…
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119100
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He’d eaten every kind of pizza from the most sublime to the foulest.
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119130
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I still remember the old times when we were together. I wish I wouldn't have let you go. If you ever thought that we should be together, please come back.
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119110
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Sick of sight, Ai Kitano constructed glasses by which the wearer was rendered totally blind.
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119133
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He chose her for the way she could, Eyes closed, nose to the air, Find her way North. North was where the wind stopped And held them in its grip, safe. Broken. He chose her for the way, fur against Her collar, she could coax seal…
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119164
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Unhappiness is a necessary boon
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119100
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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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119100
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Made sense then, should have written it down - But I fell back to sleep instead
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119165
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"Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore. You may not see me tomorrow."--Bob DylanThey're writing poems, but not for me. Guess I'll write one for my own. For nobody that I know now. It's a pretty lonely world for someone who sings, not you, not with…
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119100
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. . . he's of mixed race. Along with European blood, he's got Mexican Indian and African blood. Here's the irony. He don't look nothing like a white European man but he thinks like one.
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119143
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While the shadows of lives that once were still hid away, others who survived tried to stand on their own two feet and walk the distance again and tell what happened and what it was all like.
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119178
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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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119011
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Trenches coated with man-gruel laced the earth.
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119040
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“This isn’t fair!” I rail to my late wife. “It’s all right for you, why not me?” She never answers me directly. Not in whispers, or with knocks, or even dreams.
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1190126
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I could have a minor stroke.
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1190124
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Strauss does all the stirring at the start./
The rest is all murk and meander
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119066
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There's no rain--there hasn't been rain in weeks--but the clouds are dark without the sun, and I can't see the stars.
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119040
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Fire and ice undo me. I am born again, born again through the burning ice and biting flame. Listlessly floating cinder-like on lost cusps of wind that multiply with every with every single with every single breath. Spitfire grail and…
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119000
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The woman wrings her hands again and again, reaching up to place one under her chin, then to her cheek as though there is some pending trepidation no one else can see...
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119000
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That is then and the devil reigns in the here and now.
Tonight I am the barfly and tomorrow I die.
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119065
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“Tell me how sad they are.”
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119065
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You better read the papers
If you don’t understand
Cause as of last night
I’m a one-man band
You’d better walk through water
With your boots on fire
Cause Baby I don’t think
I can take this any higher
You’d better find out what I dr
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119010
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colors dancing on metric vectors
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He who is well hydrated, won't sweat you
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