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I will watch your teeth measure the highway all the way home.
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113600
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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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113650
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They were all celebrating something, but she couldn’t see what it was.
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113600
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I’ve really had it up to here
with people who say “awesome”
of things that don’t inspire awe.
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113611
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We are / packed in a speck of dust / adrift across the universe, / revolving an ember.
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among and begin / bouquets
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113600
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This is what you have to do to keep the unruly parts of your brain from open revolt.
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113600
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It was the same table they met and fell in love.
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113631
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If you have writer’s block, it may be because your childhood wasn’t unhappy enough, but there’s nothing you can do about that now, is there?
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113621
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“Are you comparing the communists with Hitler?”
“Are you telling me there is no comparison?"
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113600
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Dog winged the monkey's gerdonderplonk just past ceremony. Winkle-wizzened water garglers awoke wanderjanked while apple-gated confederates slept on. Rusty pipe smack-down cancelled water lily gumbo's two o'clock and Patsy sang Crazy for the millionth time.…
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113633
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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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113511
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Deep in Stationcity they began to drum.
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113552
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We head home, skirting along the coast,
humble before catapulting waves;
the lighthouse near invisible
if not for a single band of red.
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113500
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“That's Governor Gauda to you, punk!” This is the line from my speech “Killing Dennis Gauda.” The speech lost the Tall Tales competition at the division level, but I was unfortunate to have a chance to do this speech for Dennis Gauda …
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113511
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My friend and I were talking while having burritos (some days, it is as if all we ever eat are burritos, existentially speaking) and I was looking at the way he inserted that shaft of meat in his mouth and thought him prodigious for his technique
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The rocks are hot along the East RiverBelow hazy skies sent from Jersey Traffic.Pigeons peck at pieces of detritus,Walking calmly by pedestrians passingThrough the park during their allotted lunchHour. A girl with a strange frame —As if her ribs fused with her hips…
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My job was take the falls, act the dope, finish at the wrong end of the slap stick for the blow off. I was Auguste, the fool; I drove the clown car.
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113500
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My usual angel fell from the ceiling and onto the couch.
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113554
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Fat, religious, full of himself,
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113500
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These were strange realizations, and each built upon the one before until I was completely mystified and unsettled in my life.
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113540
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There's a surprise for you!Why did she think I would have been pregnant? I hadn't seen her for ages, neither people she knew, so it wasn't my weight ...She opened the door, a sigh of relief on her face, thank God she thought ... She isn't.The surprise was we came to visit,…
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113531
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I killed it.
Didn't even relocate it back to its outdoor home, as I had work to do.
This is being human.
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113521
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martyred young women lie in hospital beds
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113451
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Sand atop a trickling potentially,where roundabout rides hideunbegun business, the trickling of sand at any moment.
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113433
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That son of a bitch meant every word. Every filthy mouthful of insults that hit me was intentional and focused.
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113400
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Randall had created Raoul to enjoy the freedom of being another person, but this became his second life crisis.
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113400
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"A gush of sand- peppered wind from a passing semi-trailer hit my face rousing me from my mental comparisons."
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