1192 6 4
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FedEx merges with UPS
becoming
FedUp
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119100
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His senses were heightened. The scratching on the table with his finger nails, intense nervousness, the noise magnified every second, the ball point pen was piercing into his sweaty palm.
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119100
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"Here's the bad news: you have to wear a patch over your eye for the next six weeks."
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119176
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Barbarians and savages wore feathers/
or frightful face paint or skin tones//
one could recognize and aim for/
with weapons one could feel
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1191145
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The darkness isn’t evil but invisible/
in the otherwise excellent light of day
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119120
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Nothing came of the dust.
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119132
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Palinode: A poem written to retract something said in a prior poem.
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119152
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Brett Littman said that he had seen a costume drawing of a squid atop a pile of drawings at Dorothea Tanning's archive. Mr. Littman did not see a costume drawing featuring a squid at her archive.
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11901610
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My first winter in Massachusetts feels medieval: cold, dark, and endless.
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119054
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119041
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“Namaste,” I say as I hand the guy his ticket. “The divinity within me salutes the divinity within you. Have a nice freaking day.”
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119000
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Late last night down at Jim's Saloon
Everyone expected that the last balloon
Would go Boom! The one they all saw coming
And Lady Liberty would send the bad guys running
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119064
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And no one died achieving aristeia/
in this battle. We have come/
at least some little distance.
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119032
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Bradley turns out to be a walking red flag. He approaches as I unload the U-Haul and says, "Hi, I'm Bradley. I'm not very modest so you might see me from time to time in various stages of undress." Bradley is the last man on Earth I wish to see undressed.
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119030
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... if he planned to install them in their bedroom she would find them more than a little distracting.
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119023
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Our friend, M. Dieu-Juste partnered in a used car business with a Vietnamese mechanic, Mr. Tran. Cars however, were not their only venture.
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119032
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He doesn't tell her that he is married, and that his five year old daughter who is living at your house has a mother back in that same city
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119033
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It’s too early in the morning to play the glockenspiel. I’ll just sit here and knit this tiger.
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119083
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119030
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You're trying to attract visitation in a small quarter with pearls in both your lobes. Only half of what you say is true. The red lipstick shines through like a brad on white paper, a voice, soprano. The half I tend to appreciate squanders & squalls. This is the ride…
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119051
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"I love you.”“Night.”Back at the screen door she answers “What?” I stand under her nose and say “Box is out of juice.” Inside she sits me on the black and white polka-dotted sofa we make love around here and there.…
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118911
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I held the steam and scrubbed it. How do you do that? asked Willy. How do you scrub steam? It is so, you know, diaphanous. I said to Willy, because Willy was a good man and listened with both ears, we adapt to the heart's convulsions. I send my grammar to a…
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118900
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When I was 14 I accidentally heard a woman saying behind my back
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118900
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118900
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All of the students’ eyes were fixed on him, and now Nelson was embarrassed. It’s not that he didn’t want to pay attention. He already knew the answer to this book. But he wouldn’t dare tell the rest of the class or Mrs. Edwards.
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1189139
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118991
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I can no longer conjure the sweetness of a plum
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118920
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high school football players who'd been hit wrong and instantly become quadriplegics
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118900
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"Excuse me, ma'am? You wanted the mayonnaise on the side, right?"No one ever called her ma'am again.
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118920
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Loss and awakening are irrevocable. Love and grief are one.
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