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The superhero is out there in the fields, discovering herself.
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11461412
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We danced the pee dance after too much Seven Up and tasted odd Jello dishes.
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114601
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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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114600
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It seems like that is all I really knowThe narrow confines of my existenceThe sun rises and falls somewhere,And all living things, move, work struggle and fightCarrying a bucket of water, while the sunBangs the day's rhythm on my armsThere's a war going on, all the…
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114600
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it always takes too long to figure it out
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I remember distinctly the first time I saw Lynda. She was not a stunning-looking girl by any stretch of the imagination. She was short, with naturally blond Swedish hair that she wore in a long ponytail that dropped down her back. It was freezing outs
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114511
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City cars packed with eyes
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I know I was hungry. I was hungry for what you had to offer, your fast cars, your dad’s ski boat, your beautiful mouth and its pretty words, your Bohemian eyes and yes, for the joy you could give me between the legs.
But I was unprepared for the lif
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For those in know know know there was hint of a wilderness Cadillac...
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11451816
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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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114541
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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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114500
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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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114541
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I remember saying, I’ll tell you what I think, if you tell me even one of your little secrets, okay? Whoa! A little too much information there, Wolfie, or Pharaoh, or whatever your name is now.
I remember you with the same beard (just a different co
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114451
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The gecko instinctively knew that if he moved, he was dead.
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I am a small cottage up on the hill. Every morning, I open my windows and my front door. First enters dawn which turns the walls blue, followed by the sun laying straws of wheat on my table. Inside my cottage the day lights up the dark corners while the lamps go quietly…
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114420
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Still worried. I could use some more hope in my oatmeal.
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114421
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“Are you comparing the communists with Hitler?”
“Are you telling me there is no comparison?"
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I will watch your teeth measure the highway all the way home.
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114321
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“You’re just like me,” she said, as dawn was breaking. “You like sex.”
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114300
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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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114300
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no one told him there was a place where heroes died, but he should have known it was in love
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114321
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martyred young women lie in hospital beds
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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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114211
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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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114200
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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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The monkey did not live for long. He’d lost interest in the stuffed dog pretty much right away. The farther away the shuttle, the more garbled and fanciful the sign language the monkey had been taught became.
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We entertained each other and stuck our fingers in each others’ cakes and pies and pulled them out licking them while looking at each other. I was light with youth in a white summer dress, swinging my shoe as it dangled off the tip of my toes, rubbing m
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