1156 5 4
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once he had planted Lucille things changed./his emptiness rivalled the hollow grave/dug for her . . .
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115610
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We had been on the way to the church when we found them. The handkerchief in my breast pocket was folded just so and I'd tried to recreate the perfect ribbon in Ashley's hair, …
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115620
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(...) Suddenly there is a tram passing by and kills the Sausage (...)
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115633
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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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115622
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Upon further investigation two soldiers were found
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115620
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With a sigh she rubbed her face into wakefulness, and then sucked two fingers, thinking of melted cheese.
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115500
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exiled from hell where no torture could touch you to a cloud in heaven where no…
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115585
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I do not think it good that you, any of you, know what I mean when I say “MIG arrangement.”
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115500
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A tanka poem inspired by the CEO's apology and a 10% discount for the 40 million debit card numbers stolen at Target store since Black Friday.
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115541
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He puts the briefcase on the sand and removes a pistol.
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115522
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We’d sometimes find my mother asleep in her chair outside her trailer at the nudist camp when we drove up. She loved her garden there, even with the rabbits eating her young tomato plants. She used to coax the bluebirds down to the railing of her trailer
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115564
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as you are, there's a big floating arm that separates both of us from each other. Widening, like a river, it touches us together often, but still keeps us drifting apart. The banks of your new life have different weeds and flowers…
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115511
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George didn’t move when Cindy punched him in the nose. He just stood
up and walked to the fridge, poured a glass of water and dropped a few
ice cubes into the glass. The ice cracked in the glass as he walked
back to the couch.
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115422
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The man and the woman ate dinner together as they did most nights. It had become a habit over the years, back when they had children. Their lives were busy yet they always found time for one…
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1154127
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“She's the year of the horse,” Metri said as he peeled his dirty head from the bed, his hair was as matted as a racoon tale. It was as wild as a wild animal and smelled like body odor with a hint of blood. He slid his scabbed hands up to his chest as if to…
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115451
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Joey tried to shoot the cop with his air gun but the cop sprayed Joey with pepper spray.
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115441
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You will know the country for fences, for feces, for cows, or,
You will know the country for the smell of hay and manure blowing over the hills to you.
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115420
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A waiter at the café was saying
“I’m opening the curtain here behind your back
Is that okay?”
“Go ahead,” I told him. “It’s all right”
“Enemies are taken care of?”
“They already got everything,” I said
Suddenly both of us were laughi
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115374
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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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115300
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A cruel reminder of his irrelevance to the world of law, a world he had probably ruled for over 40 years.
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115320
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115311
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"... A set of vertebrae disintegrate and a woman falls face first into her dinner plate."
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115320
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A debacle has been scheduled for 11:45...
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1153127
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a few Hershey's Kisses tucked in with the note
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115321
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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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115382
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115300
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tragically / once upon a time / two people / far away / ...
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115321
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By the time he says “I am tired of the smell of pig shit and death” you’ve already lost interest
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115300
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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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115300
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demanded he give up muscatel art
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