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elton wrings the melody from the words into the silent but pulsing air
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1141101
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feeding the lions, tigers
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1141177
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are you afraid sometimes, in the night, in the wind as it beats down your maelstrom thoughts?
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114121
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When gratitude on lovers' lips rings false/ As flattery by courtly sycophants,/ Take care to well distinguish gold from dross/ So as to gild gladder remembrances.
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114100
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tragically / once upon a time / two people / far away / ...
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114174
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Life is meagre with me; I am unsatisfied and left always begging for __________.
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114100
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demanded he give up muscatel art
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114074
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not in the interest of verisimilitude/
for there's plenty of that in each day already/
as trajectories interrupt other trajectories
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114010
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“You got a cigarette, man?” “Hey, mister, you got a cigarette?” “You got a cigarette, mister?” “Hey, mister, you listening to me? You got any spare change?” The voice was coming from the…
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114011
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Surely someone as clever as I can hatch a plan that will make them pay for rejecting me. Ignoring my genius has a cost and they will pay the price.
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114032
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Billy fell into a bottle, and we couldn't get him out.
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114010
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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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114021
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In need of help, he bought his first self-help book at the age of twenty-nine.
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114022
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“I am the Successor of Peter!” he said, supporting himself on the shepherd’s staff topped with a crucifix: “And you are trespassing on Holy Ground.” Baal said: “No ground is Holy for me.
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114000
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It was mostly accidental.
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114044
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The graffiti has grown so large
It has covered everything we know and love
It has covered the windows, shutting out the light
And it’s all about leaving your mark
The ones who are living outside your walls
Have grown worried about leaving th
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114020
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With nipples like those, rose-colored, we could have fed a nation!
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114000
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And then she'd wipe her eyes, sweep her hair between the crest of her left ear and the side of her face and press that ear to the knot.
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114053
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perhaps because it knows that time’s a solvent/
and dissolves all things in time.
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114033
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When they first met at the bar, right away
he was sweet on her.
He drove an old oil-burning Buick or Olds,
going down the road like a smudge pot.
He never kept food in his car,
where it would get hot and spoiled.
He only picked nice fresh
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114000
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“Stay away from fad fruits and vegetables like endive, pomegranates and kiwis,” his father said. “Stick with something that people need, something that will last–parsley.”
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113975
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They hunger for new real estate/
and those resources underground
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1139149
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the Blue Ridge Mountains were entangled in their usual mist, but the early morning sky looked good
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113900
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113921
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Purple fades.
Orange into a deeper blue...The deepest blue ever known.
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113910
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You sit brooding at the barOn a Friday nightOn the patio on a Friday nightAnd people try to figure you outI thinkAnd I am so quite andSo tired Too tired to even drive homeDrainedI just need that drink to feel betterAnd I stare off in a hazeWhats wrong?I don't…
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1139126
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113900
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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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113900
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I thought drowning you was the answer. I had barely opened my eyes as I leaned over the sink to brush my teeth, and you were poised near the drain, a furry brown spider, and the largest one I had ever seen up close. I was afraid to smash you, so I flooded you with…
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113922
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