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But of course, I didn’t get the grant, so my day job in communications at Katzenfeld continued. It was the first job I got out of college. I had been there for over a year and my salary was less than my rent and student loans combined, so I had to keep my
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110376
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There was a big pile of dirt in back, where the little Hebrew School bochurs would play King of the Mountain—tugging, tearing, biting, punching, using whatever weapons they could get their tiny hands on to topple whoever scrambled up the mound first.
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110221
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Balls excite our interest because we live on a ball. We travel through space on a ball.
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110260
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As unlikely as it may seem, John Coltrane was in fact a member of the U.S. Navy Band in 1947 in Honolulu.
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110201
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His long black lashes stir, flutter a wink. His eyes catch yours through the dark reflection of your face, illuminated from beneath by wavering candlelight. Reflection obscures his features; they become yours.
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110243
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Jimi, Jim, and Janis
Kurt and Amy too
They died and gone to heaven
And fit inside a shoe
Room 114’s where they lie
Their eyes wide open
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110210
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but at least I wasn't drinking as much anymore.
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110274
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"[A]ppointed an official supplier of watches for the Ministry of Defence of the Soviet Union in 1965."
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110200
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....sucking my blood
kind of draws the line.
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110144
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I was at the bend in the road
thinking of Robert Frost
but there was no fork,
there was no yellow wood,
there wasn’t even a horse
to ask me why or what if
There was no decision to be made
just a thousand tourists from Prague
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110197
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It's not that there's nothing new, it's all new. That blue color is not the one you remember, but the one you are experiencing, and at the same time, you bring everything you are, crushing into dust, with you. Green…
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110100
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Bloggers venomously characterized Mitt as a "bumper sticker Patriot", the kind of coward who wraps himself up in a flag, puts a bumper sticker on his car, sings the national anthem at the top of his lungs and is the first person to yell out "Freedome Isnt
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110131
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He consumed the key lime pie, while wearing a lime-green sports bra.
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By the end of my Saturday night shift at the Oyster Bar I look like some kind of filthy nurse
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I feel I am, in fact,/
the dimmest and least wise/
man on earth.
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And what is it I’m supposed to do
With all this unsolicited advice?
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1100129
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The murder of two teens late one humid night on a tiny rural Virginia island brings a dark, malignant mystery edging into the village known as Leicester Court House.
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110000
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The sexuality comes over us in waves. We need to hold things, someone. The women, the men, side by side, our features blending together. We notice the small curved lines at the corners of the mouth. We notice everything. And the animal is still inside m
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110033
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in a complete rage he lifted his entire golf bag full of clubs over his head and threw them into the creek.
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110011
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artifacts gone obsolete / miscegenating in suspension
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110011
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In 1609 Ben Jonson was hired to write a work in celebration of the opening of a new shopping mall.
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110042
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(From Postcards fom a Railway Station (final poem)) No lights shine out tonight high hung in heaven: And the constellations like a dead man fall. No sight of polar eyes, whose sons are seven, And I stand unthinking and beyond it all I own it all a…
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109985
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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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109920
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but isn't that the case
in most long-term,
committed
relationships?
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109998
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She'd had every reason to believe he'd be difficult, though he wasn't.
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He’s got horns and a tail
I found him on sale
He’s got snake in his DNA
Evil in his eye
And plenty of chicken pot, chicken pot
Chicken pot pie
But he sure can play piano
With those giant lobster hands
In his ratty raccoon coat
And his
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109920
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After Loretta McKinley had sat for just such a time on a rock near the tribe, hallucinating and coming as close to death and God as she ever had, she walked into the camp and asked to speak with the elders.
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