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And what is it I’m supposed to do
With all this unsolicited advice?
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(v 1: I picked up a robin yesterday. It was red and puffed and in the middle of the road in front of the car on the way to the grocery store. I put on the brakes and turned on the flashing red light to signal my stop. I picked the bird up and moved it to the side of the…
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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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120474
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the cracks in the concrete look like
rivers or highways crossing
from the air but only a few feet
below me
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120421
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“Are you comparing the communists with Hitler?”
“Are you telling me there is no comparison?"
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tragically / once upon a time / two people / far away / ...
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120433
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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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Deep in Stationcity they began to drum.
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Do you know if you were actually speaking to me there?
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It is far into the future when humanity has all but squandered the sustenance of its home, Earth. Because of this, myself and three other candidates are selected to participate in a top-secret mission to retrieve fresh sources of solidified hydrogen from
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120354
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seriously: let defendants choose their coin, / execute their own calls, make their own coin flips― / attentive referee, no need for a court.
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120310
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In suburban Jeddah magnificent houses on every corner of the avenues are surrounded by high walls rising up from just inside the roadside curb to much beyond taller than a man.
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120321
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An elephant with fascist tendencies,And various exotic dependancies,Kept his eye on,That there King Lion,Frustrated by his monarchic propensities.He made plans to over-throw,Thinking the Lion's popularity low,But he was discovered,When his habits were uncovered,Which was…
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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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120322
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"Excuse me. I believe you have a little something falling from your right nostril there," he said, pointing with his pinky.
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120321
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“You’re just like me,” she said, as dawn was breaking. “You like sex.”
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120285
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I felt that love could
not be paid for or else could
never be paid for enough.
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120211
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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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Mine lasted 90 days. But don't they all? After we made love the first time, it was early November, I remember, some internal part of me shot upward with a laughter that would not stop. Something…
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120220
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They were overweight, diabetic, and trapped in a cellphone dead zone.
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120201
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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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120210
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Someone had scrawled her on the walls.
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120175
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They hunger for new real estate/
and those resources underground
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120133
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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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120140
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For those in know know know there was hint of a wilderness Cadillac...
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120100
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I walked up to the bar and sat down on the empty stool.“You don't want to sit there,” said the bartender.“Oh? Why not?” I replied.“It's haunted.”I laughed, but then stopped when I saw he was not laughing with me.“You're…
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120132
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Billy fell into a bottle, and we couldn't get him out.
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120100
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He repeated Honey, I miss you. He could be cruel. He let their son chase his kite for hours in the park while he sat between two tourists on their way out of the city just last week. He could hear her now, running a bath for herself, forgetting John's Apple Jacks before…
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