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I hate turnstiles and revolving doors
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116941
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“So–you can get a stimulus check even if you’re dead?” I asked.
“hell man–in chicago you can vote if you’re dead. i’ve tried to stay active politically.”
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116910
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A man strolled by with perfect posture and a masterful comb-over. Bud gave me that 'get him' expression; sitting there with his own low side part. We razzed him about it all the time, but he still looked pretty-damn-good for seventy-five.
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116931
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Where does the foam from the lattes go?
I'm not being flip--I want to know.
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116931
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To give proper credit where due, one name suffices for what humanity likely will be dealing with for decades, centuries, or millennia to come, and that name is “Technogenic Climate Change”.
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116922
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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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116955
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with binoculars
neighbor reads
screen text:
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116976
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116921
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“Are you comparing the communists with Hitler?”
“Are you telling me there is no comparison?"
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116921
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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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116932
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http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2011/07/17/imagine_mimes_as_the_mbta_noise_police/
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116933
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Father, trouble me memory;laconic, idle, some glint on the dark. Recall us to me: what did we have, or what did we lose? Like some late affection, open me again, laugh it out of us. It is not loss I'm looking toput back together, papered over…
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116800
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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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116812
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Do you know if you were actually speaking to me there?
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116821
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Purple fades.
Orange into a deeper blue...The deepest blue ever known.
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116832
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Billy fell into a bottle, and we couldn't get him out.
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116800
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Jim twisted the skinny trunk of his body in a fast, violent jerk just as the cop grabbed the buckle of his left Harley Davidson boot. When the boot flopped off, Jim found himself sitting upright, ready to jump up and run. But then he felt the baton lock down on his…
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116810
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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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116800
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our house gives him a cold again
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116801
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But all I see, the only irresolute shape in my mind that forms and becomes real, is you.
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116851
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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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116711
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City cars packed with eyes
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116720
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Terry marked each spot where we did it with a red “X” on this map she had taken from my dad's gas station. In those days gas stations gave out maps for free.
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116751
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The gecko instinctively knew that if he moved, he was dead.
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116700
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Because I was feeling so good, so certain, so ready to move forward, and then all of a sudden, BANG. I was the bad one, the careless menace. Unbelievable. How could my entire position in the universe suddenly shift like that, from one moment to the next? I was here, and…
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116741
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He puts the briefcase on the sand and removes a pistol.
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116751
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I remember Freddie K bringing these fat Thai joints back with him from Viet Nam, and just one of those things would get us all so stoned at parties in Jolene’s upstairs apartment that we felt as if we could float down the long flight of stairs like we w
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feeding the lions, tigers
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116765
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The superhero is out there in the fields, discovering herself.
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116753
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Cockroaches may be falling through the holes
in the floorboards of heaven, but we will not be disturbed.
We are agents, free and clear, even if a little bit mean.
I want to quit worrying about money,
but the angels upstairs won’t let me.
The
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