82960
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It’s hard to lose. Harder than you think. I guess the ultimate question is: If I had to give up one thing, my dog, or hazelnut gelato, which would it be? I’ll tell you, between those two, it would have been easy to choose. But losing you, that was a who
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82932
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82900
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What do you Americans say, here is ze kicker?
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82920
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“I believe it is some form of primitive recreation with a board and wheels,” the one and a half eyed orange blob said with an Australian accent.
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82941
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as if someone had spilled a bag of perfect diamonds on the world.
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82865
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82821
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Airports are always a casino, said Oriana
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82811
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A man stared out a window,
only to see a passing train.
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82844
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Don’t shout. Be nice
Cheer up. Sit up
Straight. Don’t play
With your food. Elbows
Off the table. Watch
Your language. Use
Your napkin. Eat the
Crust
Stop fidgeting
Stop scratching
Close your mouth
When you chew
Remember to
Clea
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82800
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The smell of your chest, and the taste of your lips
as they touch mine
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82810
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“He’s a tough nut,” says CIA officer Marlon McGrath. “He says he’ll die a martyr rather than crack before we get to the Booster Club award for outstanding female athlete.”
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82720
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Almonds of childhood – fending off needless tears and chocolate impulses, almonds of my teens, slivered and toasted industrially baked settling in on egg washed croissant…mashed into the kitchen sink of the catch-all bear claw, then the taste and shiv
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82700
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A gurgle of sugar on bark-splotch or blips. A mess: blueprints, radar, or wrench. Lips swell neon blood. So much spit, the lunar tremors. Manipulated, blur flutter flicks. To lungs: choke on scraps of metal, lumber, nuclear. Stir the embers. She's a bone bath for…
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827106
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There being so few venues for Lapp dancing in Lausanne in those days, Swish Suzi took a job in a Swiss sushi bar.
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82720
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827199
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82732
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What I wanted was to rewind the film
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82710
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Focusing on reflections of clear lines on scummed glass, reflexes not quite as fast as they used to be, seeing things but not clearly, straining, these muscles worn out servos, grunting, can't quite bring things together, but why do this to yourself. More pointless than…
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82764
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Cold smoke from the crater
Breathes on our eyelashes;
The abysmal emptiness held
Its breath just once.
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82751
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82700
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82654
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Those resting in clusters of bones, Cradled in ashes of what once were homes.
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82611
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Michael remembered when he would lay awake at night as a child and in his mind escape to the woods.
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82600
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The dark staircase creaked as he crept down to the basement. The even whoosh-whoosh of the washing machine was comforting to him. He reached for the light as he entered the room. A dim bulb blinked on above him. There was a small table across the room f
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82600
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“Out-of-work samurai have a choice,” says Bobby Ito. “They can terrorize local peasants at county fairs, or underbid low-skilled workers for menial jobs.”
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82600
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and even if you feel like you're all grown up, it's still okay...
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82620
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He sat on the floor and said, "I found this letter W in the jungle. It's b-b-beautiful,"
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82610
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The empty faces in the crowd all mumbled...
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82600
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I’ll give you a pair of grey cement pumps
then into the river, your body I’ll dump.
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82622
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I give you three words
dripping wet with whatever and you
take them, harbor them...
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