990 10 7
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His self-assurance says/
he’s practiced in the art/
of self-deception
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9892510
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98900
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It comes to him in the night. When he's lying there, staring at the ceiling. The shadows dance on the white paint, forming into monsters that get you when you sleep. The moon hangs low in the sky, dancing with the stars in a ballet that lost all movement
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98951
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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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98962
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His beard is an eighteenth-century forest / in south central France
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989135
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My sacred boxes contained this information.
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98900
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98830
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The little butterfly struggled against the wind. As little butterflies sometimes do. Tossed and turned around by relentless, uncaring gusts. The little butterfly would make progress, but then be pushed back. Tantalizing close to where she was heading. A…
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98800
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Besotted by an overload of scotch, Ben’s brain barely alerted him to loud knocking at his door.
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98874
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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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98811
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The tuna fish sandwiches were laid out the way they had always been; they were cut into triangles, with wet paper towels between them. They stayed that way over an hour, untouched, aside from a dimple the size of my cousins finger to test the softness. …
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98800
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I didn't much care for the graveyard anymore now that so many people I knew where layin' in it.
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98785
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I do not think it good that you, any of you, know what I mean when I say “MIG arrangement.”
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98782
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With furrowed brow, he took the plastic stems and began to beat the blossom ends
against the black brick wall.
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98742
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At the company luncheon, the dessert course came first. The servers were tense and unresponsive and we knew something was off. After the pudding or mousse came an undressed salad. Several minutes later came dressings — balsamic, ranch — with ladles.…
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98700
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Sunday nights weren't massive.
They were Sunday mornings that remained.
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98723
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And you should know, every woman smiles at a man buying flowers, because … we can imagine. We can only hope.
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98731
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He fingered his remaining chips and the usual nervousness tingled at his spine.
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98754
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Please be advised to have at least 2 persons to assemble this unit
Although it could take close to a dozen
Always include at least 2 kibitzers
Another 2 or 3 standing around sipping vodka martinis
Be sure to have enough olives to go around
And b
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98764
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Her tits were perfect
But came with a white picket fence
Around them
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987158
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98600
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It was Christmas Eve. Time for the ghost to visit. Just one ghost in this story. The ghost of a Christmas past. Just one Christmas for just one ghost.He looked out the window. Under the distant streetlight the snow was falling. He turned on his porch light. …
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98632
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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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986148
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A.The poem of rational progression is dulling.Make the leap. Go beyond juxtaposition to collision.We like poetry that does double duty, triple duty, quadruple duty. We like poetry that mixes the grit, poetry that has the texture of complexity.Reason asserts an…
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98620
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when the jewels weren't on his head; they were in his eyes.
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98631
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“Madras shorts with those candy-ass Brooks Brothers shirts? If you wear stripes with plaids, you’ll look like a TV test pattern.”
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98600
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For every Ruben Studdard, there are ten Mick Jaggers and, considered merely in terms of avoirdupois, the two sides of that scale would probably balance.
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98641
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We can imagine an escalator as being a (conveyor) belt between two different states of consciousness. On the one hand (beginning or end, depending on how you see it) the lower (or higher) level, and on the other hand a progression or pro-‘motion’ of the f
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98631
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Watching himself dissolve comes with no sense of meaning. It is simply what it is. He finds that curious.
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98586
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The damp suspended/
in the air/
in a faint fog/
discourages coagulation.
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