1026 6 3
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We have become//
the sum of our appetites,/
the growth curve of our dominion.
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1026147
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But you can have a lap dance.
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102673
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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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102500
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She shifts in her armchair, shadowed beneath the dark pitched roof, gently replaces her chipped white china teacup in its saucer. It's started again. It's how they go, their whisperings, egging younger children to climb the steps to her attic apartment, a
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102520
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My cell phone shakes; it’s my father’s voice calling my name - so far away - with long distance crackle and panic on the line.
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102522
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Beeswax
Just Kill Me
Beam Me Up
Deep-Fried Twinkie
End of Lust
Hootchie and the Eye Patch
Boy Crazy
Instant Success
Sleeping Geezers
Cyber Shoes
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102521
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That night in the stable the three wise men were the only ones who had read books. All the rest became victims of circumstance. Characters amazing in their own right. To be written and talked about for centuries. Totally…
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102512
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“Where did this come from?” Greenblatt snapped as he pulled a pamphlet from his coat pocket with the words “Jews for Jesus” on it.
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102541
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I still see you lying on the tracks
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102510
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They’re friends, him and Sissy and Raul, you know, and live upstairs from Asa and he went up there. He kept texting me saying, B here all night, follow u 2 airport. Yelled down through the floor. Real crazy shit.
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102500
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What do you Americans say, here is ze kicker?
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102420
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Then there was Marsha, the blonde bombshell, at Irvine, who slept over one night only. As in the original one night stand, your standard L.A. blonde beach-girl bombshell ex-cheerleader tear your heart out and spit it as far as she could. Wrench your bal
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102420
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Remove with care, then slowly lay the string, wide well-soaked end at left-hand edge, to start, and allow to curve, to bend, to almost loop and wind its way at rest across the mottled, patterned green
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102453
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nevertheless, this crowd had come up with a universal cure for humanity, and regardless of consequences . . .
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102410
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In suburban Jeddah magnificent houses on every corner of the avenues are surrounded by high walls rising up from just inside the roadside curb to much beyond taller than a man.
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102441
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He puts the briefcase on the sand and removes a pistol.
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1024109
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As if reaching for the Divine was the problem
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102432
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This tall, very fair, very blonde, very female, very feminist friend of mine, with a smile the moon and stars must take lessons from. . . .
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102420
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I am like a spice in wind, warm and gentle on the face, a reminder of your youth, tried and true. Lick the trapped silk from my soul, is all I am saying, with your high language. Get the core out of me and turn it under your tongue. Why shouldn't the egg
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102495
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1024238
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but all I can give them now are air hugs
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102451
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Molly stared at the woman behind the desk with a headset attached to her head, and sighed.
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102461
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With a notch in his ear from an honor-mad fight
And a tail that is shorter than at last sunlight.
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102421
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What the fuck is that smell? Puke? Pine-Sol? Oh shit!Back seat of a cop car.Again?What is it this time?“Excuse me, officer? Where the fuck are my clothes?”
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102454
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One thing about eating shit:
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102432
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Here’s the local group of grumpy gray-haired men
Chewing over politics as if it’s important
As if their endless discussing of it,
Waving their hands in the air, gesturing,
Is going to change the world
How do these guys stop from having heart a
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102432
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We reach for things and objects//
made of ever smaller things and objects
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102411
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. . . making a little winter-love, in a dark corner.
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102474
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tiny banners, browned/
and wrinkled by time,
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102375
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They hunger for new real estate/
and those resources underground
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