2484 30 19
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He’s hooked on the pinball / excitements of adolescence
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2483 5 2
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2482 22 15
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The Cheshire grinning/
moon cups itself to capture/
Venus should she fall.
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2482 2 3
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The reaction had started, the hives and respiratory swelling. Maddy huffed for air, each inhalation rattling her throat louder, more hoarse.
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2481 17 7
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Dear Erin,And people call ME a pussy. Fuck you,The Cunt
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2481 23 13
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2481 20 9
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Eighteen-layered canvases were prized by both of them, regardless of whose work appeared on top.
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2480 6 4
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This was looking down from what we know as The Grassy Knoll.
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2479 17 9
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When Ryan isn’t around, those of us who know him lament that he peaked at 17, at Disney World.
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2478 1 0
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- Do you get out much, Professor?
- How so? You mean to lectures?
- No, I mean, you know, say, a walk in the park, or, take in a movie, or, maybe take a chick out to dinner, show her a good time, get a few drink
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2477 6 4
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Our banter has shifted, like wading from the shallow to the deep end. He taps his foot. “Your underwear reminded me of my grandma’s underwear.”
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2476 5 4
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O’Malley imagined the blissful, narcotic innocence of Toby’s world where soft-shell crabs crawled into people’s mouths and hummed a happy tune as they were chewed and swallowed.
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2475 4 6
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"The problem is, sometimes my pigeon wants to fly somewhere new- to the beach or south for winter. Other times, my pigeon wants to steal someone else’s lunch or picnic with a stranger’s leftovers. Often, my pigeon wants a good show and some freedom, to be
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2475 12 12
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Columbus Avenue, I’m the tense union of poor city rich city/
gentrification.
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2474 13 11
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Her mother dressed her like a little girl would dress a doll.
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2474 4 1
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Larry's next book, A Fly in My Ointment, is due out this summer
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2474 0 0
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Like gymnastics, shoplifting is a discipline of youth.
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2473 11 5
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Boys of summer in Yonkers played stickball and baseball.
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2472 21 18
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One day a woman, one of several translators at Ellis Island, asks him why he has changed a passenger’s name from Checzowicz to something else.
“The name was too long,” he says. “Ten letters.”
She replies, “But you didn’t change O’Shaughnessy, and it has
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2472 5 4
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my exposed
flu-ridden head
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2472 27 11
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As soon as she left, I sat down at the computer. Booted up. Read my e-mail, then looked at pictures of bare-naked ladies.
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2471 14 9
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... a moth,
a kiss. A silence.
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2470 4 2
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In an early scene in Marvel's 2015 movie Ant-Man, the film's protagonist, Scott Lang, a convicted felon and former burglar, is summoned to his boss Dale's office at Baskin-Robbins."Three years at San Quentin, huh?" says Dale."You found out," Scott replies."Baskin-Robbins…
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2469 2 0
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I’ll bring the naproxen sodium so we won’t have any problem grabbing things.
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2467 8 7
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A brief commentary on the uselessness of endings.
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2467 6 2
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He sits on a folded-over cardboard box, slightly off-balance and without any visible sign of support other than the granite wall of the bank behind him and the few coins in the paper cup he shakes at each passerby.
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2465 20 13
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I love to lie when discovered. "I'm your new neighbor." "The landlord sent me." "I'm the ghost of the girl who died on the 11th floor." "I fell from the sky." I wear billowing white dresses and a wide-brimmed straw hat that throws my face into shadow. Peo
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2465 2 0
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A cruel panther gets its prey.
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2464 1 1
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“I’m surprised you haven’t fucked yourself to death, too,” he added, “given your record.”
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2464 12 6
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It’s about 4:30 when the phone rings. I look at the display and see it’s home.
“Hey,” I say picking up.
“I hate you,” says Jules.
“I hate, you, too,” I say. My co-workers don’t even blink. They’ve heard this before.
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