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While I had believed that the subject had been exhausted, that the bottomless pit of the individual navel gazer had been done to death, now here arrives How To Find Yourself to show that previous literature had only scratched the surface of the belly butt
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. . . and the last thing you’ll smell will be new-cut pine.
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The Zoomba quivered in anticipation as the front door shut.
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It's possible I was having an acid flashback or some kind of semi-conscious when I opened the door of #3.
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His body echoed in the mirror/
cracked into distant images
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“Stay there Alysia!” Brie said from behind as she ran toward them. The Sentinel used Alysia’s back as a step and launched herself into the air with Legacy over her head.
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"a.k.a. I-D-I-O-T" (The Hives).
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Kyo held her hand gently and stared at the bracelet as Brie explained everything that happened. It was painful to hear.
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He pushed aside the netting and trained the flashlight on the dripping courtyard. Rivers ran off the wide pinanona leaves, surged through fissures in the crumbling wall.
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Her letter ends with her best words: No one will ever love you like I do. Beneath, she draws a heart, sad eyes, two jewel tears. Yours forever, Dawn. Hole by hole, not to wake her sister, she pulls the paper free, creases, folds again, then cuts…
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And here you are. Before your time. Behind the glass.
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Jane watched her mother remove her wedding ring with butter.
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pressing my hands into the voice in the bed,
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You have been my woman’s lover now for
seven years, ever since your two souls met
at La Isla Negra.
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This is the best kind of crime scene.
Spattered like gore from gunshots,
I'm left covered in trace evidence.
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“Life cannot continue at a breakneck pace, because it is breaking too many necks,” the Health Czar told the President.
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Six kinds of crazy, he said. That told me everything. It told me enough.
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"From up here the city lights burn like a thousand miles of fire," he croaked, his voice scratchy from sobbing. In pinpoints of illumination he imagined his wife - *former* wife - Calli in that Mustang convertible he'd gotten her for a birthday surprise
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When she awoke in her yard, she poured what was left of the rum into the dead grass. The man beside her lay with fingers curled, a claw she’d found wedged up her skirt when she woke. Tom, she said, his name nonsense, tongues. Might as well have been any
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When the scrapbook came out this time, I noticed a photo I hadn't seen before, the Baroness with her arm around the waist of Princess Diana. A lavish display of blooms towered behind them.
"Did you know her?" the florist asked.
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The Bond Trader begins his morning with coffee and a hit of LSD.
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Jake remembers that Amy told him once that she thought that somehow he would always be a part of her life. That was before she went to Spain and married an American bull fighter.
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What happens in heaven stays in heaven.
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“The price of everything's gone up,” I say. “But I don't have to buy you chocolate if it's costing too much.” She says nothing and bends her head again, gnarled hands slowly breaking a family-sized chocolate block into pieces.
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for a handful of weeks/ my father took me to/ the college of art and design/ downtown/ where i took drawing lessons./
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My glasses fog up every time I go to collect her from the pool. I'll never get used to glasses. When my sight got suddenly worse the day she was born, I didn't tell anyone. As she turned from baby to child, my love for her grew, and my world got smaller,
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"You're publishing too much too / quickly. We think that's unhealthy. We want you / to slow down. You're becoming a fame whore."
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You look just like your mom
she says
I LOL her and say, funny
cuz you look just like yours
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Our next door neighbor is in love with his cat. His wife sits in our kitchen crying her eyes out.
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