1200 3 3
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She was trying to hold something, gathering in … lips blue/ black, saying: “I’m all right.”
I remember her telling me, over the phone one time: “It’s a baby rabbit, and he was having a picnic. He was chewing away and chewing away. I had six tomato pla
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120011
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You think about bears and it gives you a headache? Don’t give them that power.
You see bears and it gives you a headache? Don’t run. Don’t walk but don’t run.
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120000
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VI. At Antares Alpha A pyramid carries four sides: only this one Is surmounted by a circle, and its cone Has all of what we claimed within its cargo, Or that shall never find a plan, or transit now; Though the sulphur and carmine skies that…
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120060
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The silence grew louder as it grew longer.
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120022
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He stood in the doorway of his mother's house. The doorway that separated the living room from the kitchen. Out of habit, he picked at the wallpaper. He had done this for years as a kid. Anytime a corner pulled up, he started tugging. Just a…
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120065
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“Tell me how sad they are.”
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120000
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Another subject of interest is "furverts"--"individuals who engage in sexual activity while dressed in animal costumes."
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120033
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"..sneezing repeatedly into an obviously saturated cocktail napkin,.."
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120041
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As I looked in her eyes
She told me—
she liked to pull wings off flies.
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119900
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“Well, Danny, what do you want for Christmas?”
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119942
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I had laid my hand down hard upon a long forgotten shard of an old coke bottle.
The cut is deep.
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119900
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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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119911
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Well, it looks like I’ll be having a stem-cell transplant after all...
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119912
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The women, I think,
Handle it better than
The men.
The men just stare
Straight ahead
Vacantly
Hollow-eyed
Lonely.
The women more
Fulfilled by their lives,
Having always
Expressed their love.
The men,
Not so much.
And find
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119965
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I’ll take my Christmas carols neat-
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119900
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119900
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What would people say about me? He was immoderately adrift. Maybe pathologically narcissistic. A shame he dumped Gina, the best he ever did. In essence, a man-child.
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119900
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Italian authorities seized $1.9 billion in "green" investments made by La Cosa Nostra to launder money. Reuters
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119932
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Chewy is an old dog. His face is mostly white.
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1199105
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Upstairs, in a room where some years later, the occupant would be murdered by his lover, I sat in my skivvies in an armchair and wondered if I should call my wife.
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119952
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Her legs splayed out
in front of her.
She was a mess
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119933
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When he was 24 he ran away with a girl, forgot about his little office job in the city, went with her to the mountains, just the two of them, to live out a life of romance that a chalk box like the metropolis can’t give you—
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119954
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No one has the right/
to script how someone dies.
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119942
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Vicki's scream echoed in Michiko's ear, an unwelcome earworm.
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119910
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Your words broke meLike a china vase dropped to the floorAnd though the pieces were recoveredStuck together with love and compassionThe cracks are there for those who lookI was happy to be there, content in that placeYou wanting to be somewhere elseNever telling me where…
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119800
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the dark brown cloaked warden stands on his lofty perch
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1198115
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Hardly a soul could pin him for creating the vehemence that found a streamule to her pen if she wrote in cursive or a fanjet to her keyboard if she typed quickly and satisfyingly in print, employing eight fingers and two thumbs—
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119830
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She turned on the television. The newscaster was her husband. She changed the channel. Her husband interviewing her husband. She changed the channel. A baseball game. Her husband pitched to her husband who popped a fly ball which was caught by her husband
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119800
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Ben watched Monique disappear into the first-class cabin. It didn’t seem likely that he would see her again after this flight.
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1198107
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don’t ask me to set my goals./
I have none except safe air to breathe,/
a reliable roof,/
something aromatic in the oven.
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