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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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95200
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Nothing is what was wrong when I asked.
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95242
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It was Saturday morning."The coffee maker is not ready yet," said one of the old men. Like the present company, his form was swollen with mismatched layers of cold weather wear.It was a white room with a dozen men, three couches, and a large screen television flickering…
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95233
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“Hey! You can’t be
whistling on Greyhound,”
the bus driver said,
looking up
in the rearview mirror.
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95211
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As you can see, egotism forms at a young age for people who end up in this industry.
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95274
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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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95276
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I try to keep myself from weeping.
We are all actors in a bad dream,
that doesn’t go away in the morning
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95263
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It's good to be home.
It's good to be home.
It's very good to be home
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95231
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I got a male bouffant hairdo like Trump
I can’t wait to develop patience
And the next time I have a ringing in my head
I’m not going to answer it
Can I Get a New To-Do List?
I tried changing my name to Richard Vixen
Until the State Dept. too
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95200
|
If you don't want to die, go fetch me a pie
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95201
|
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95211
|
a sixteen year old girl
Denim
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95100
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The only magazine Auden subscribed to was Scientific American, a publication I had previously scorned as the trade journal of pre-med students and Nobel Prize winners.
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95133
|
Bite an apple and watch them come,
God only knows wherefrom.
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95100
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Steve Bancroft’s future wife showed up at his door that same night, slamming her hand loudly against the door and shouting for him. “Steve, Steve, wake up. Damn it, come on. You forgot to pick me up at the airport. Who are you in there with? I said wake
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95133
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Pieces that said shrug a shrug and then another and one to right with the eyes that squint and one to left with rhythm that never left. And piece after piece, after piece they stich themselves, née weave a tapestry that is the dance your very walk swayed
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95100
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I know you want to hold me. I won't break. I love you. Your hands - when they caress me are soft and gentle. My words speak only to you. They speak of love and of how we spend…
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95120
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Edwin was the last thing I bought. With his uneven eyes and curious leg stumps, he was a must-have. When I showed Edwin to my housemates he was hugged many times, and praised as though he was real. Knowing my housemates, Edwin may have saved some lives…
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95100
|
Her through the phone line, a pause, a hold in her voice. Mom. The things we miss as adults, the turns of phrase, the little pauses. The in between of conversations are opportunities are avenues, five lane highways where we can be…
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95142
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“Snobs,” our head housekeeper Denise called them in her deep voice, while peering out from under her glasses at me.
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95100
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made of meat and born to breed
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95155
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"Where've you been?" the image in the mirror asked. "I haven't seen you since yesterday," she said.
"Yeah, I miss you too," he said.
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95100
|
How long to make something pretty?
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95133
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Then there was the time I splurged, hoping a higher-priced phone might keep me from slamming it against the wall.
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95053
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There’s a sudden
Burst of color
Like the dispersal of a ghost
In a light wind
And now candy wrappers are
Scattered all over the heavens
It looks like God got lit up
By the sky
As we flew too c
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9501315
|
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95020
|
I remember driving to New York City the summer of 1964, just before I met you. That was the very first time I ever smoked a joint. In those days it was happy dope. We got high and everything seemed so funny! Those were the days!
I drove into the city
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95040
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The bullet went past his right ear and a little star appeared, twinkling in the mirror, a small hole in its middle, before the boom of the shot filled up the bar.
He put his straight up Grey Goose martini down on the bar hard enough so th
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95001
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When I wake up, I am almost drowning in a sea of styrofoam.
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95082
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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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