722 6 5
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Donna and I get out of the car...
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72221
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"you have plastic in you"
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72230
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Talk about the Nutcracker–my nuts are cracking from the cold cause it’s freezin’ out here! But a guy’s gotta make a buck, and scalpin’ ballet tickets in sub-zero weather pays the bills.
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72200
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72130
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A salesman, a born salesman like my brother, is always and only involved in the Moment, and it is the sale itself that is at the heart of the moment, and my brother Harris was really at the top of his form as a salesman. It can probably best be said, th
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72131
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I didn’t know how to find the gold-capped ocean. How was I supposed to know where it was? I only knew you did not want or expect me to follow you there, where the orifice to everything withers, including my heart. Openings from the rivers drying in the
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72134
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...the room was filled
with a brightness
and a breeze,
making you think
you were up in
the clouds.
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721177
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are you afraid sometimes, in the night, in the wind as it beats down your maelstrom thoughts?
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72133
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and we’ll have dinner
with the head of the Swollen Artists Club
and I’ll keep my mouth tied shut
with my own tongue
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72133
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“Can I get apple juice and milk?” “Yes.” “And a chocolate shake?” “Will you finish all that and your food?” “Probably not.” “Still yes. Get whatever you want.” The waitress took the order. Along…
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72100
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Tomiko did not feel lost. Although she struggled to understand what was going on around her, she knew where she wanted to go.
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72163
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It doesn’t shuffle, wrapped in cotton,/
hungering for love and tana leaves.
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72021
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THERE ARE TWO PARTS. FROM PART ONE: (Later the police escort the students out, directing them to keep their hands in the air, as they file out into the parking lot. They wrap Mrs. Smedley in a blanket as she stares out blankly in shock. "How is Linda? Is
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72022
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7201213
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The child was delivered, set to breathing, and whisked away before Fae Anne could even catch a glimpse of her.
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720136
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A murder of bunnies
nibble the St. Augustine,
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7191110
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Because of her I got there early, and like I figured, the train was late.
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71922
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Agnes folded the magazine in her lap. It was one of those women's magazines that had a picture of a supermodel on the cover. The girl was pencil thin and not that attractive, at least not as far as Agnes was concerned, and she was surrounded by boldface words encouraging…
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71986
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By the time the oceans rise/
enough for Kansans to care about,
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71921
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Your wandering kisses entered my soul
Then my flesh, then my holes
You filled them all
Like a Norwegian hall
Like a Swedish sailor
Drunk with ale
You fell inside me
And you’re falling still
It was a thrill
I can’t sit still
I got a chi
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71921
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There is no love triangle more tangled than that which snares a pet, its owner and an amorous veterinarian.
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71921
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71976
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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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71900
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In the upstairs bedroom, the faucet runs wide open, overflowing the garden tub, shoving water to the white tile floor where she lays in a pool of blood. A white package of forty watt bulbs rests beside her sink. A three step ladder lays on its side. The…
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7191312
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The little Lady and I drove down to New Orleans to take in the Mardi Gras festivities we’d read so much about.
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71800
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I'd been sleeping on a couch. It was the couch of another artist, a friend, the kind of friend who makes you want to think in star patterns that dance across galaxies and warm distant life forms that are impossible to see. This friend made me feel more like…
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71822
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Are there places that words cannot go? Consider words going where they were never intended to go.
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7181415
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the making by taking away
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71800
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We had to walk up to the fourth floor, and on those steamy hot Chicago summer nights in August, sometimes I would strip off my top before we even got in the door. I lived with my Siamese cat, whose name was Caesar.
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71800
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The world had gathered to hear about how the world’s most expensive and scientifically advanced theme park had turned into one of the largest crime scenes, and nightmares, of the modern age.
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