4021 36 26
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All carcinoma/
would be hors d’oeuvres/
for its dark appetite.
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4018 39 26
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"Oh, abracadabra," she muttered.
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4015 41 40
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Touching one of these special stones will bring out your own unique song.
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4006 6 4
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She remembered/Before the menses
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4006 19 13
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Was that the door slamming?
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3993 8 7
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To find myself in a straight relationship which challenges my communications skills and tries my patience while improving my status among my peers and family.
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3990 28 15
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When I was miranda and my mother Rose, ours was a skinless intimacy. miranda in Rose's womb, captured in an essence of love, anger, frustration, fear, the overwhelming stress of Rose's life heavy syrup that kept the bond between spirit and body weak and
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3989 8 5
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For starters, someone must be dead. That’s the golden rule to remember here. And if that someone is mom, you’ve got a hit on your hands.
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3987 12 12
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tonight's sky is full:/each lunatic to his moon/sings separate songs.
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3980 7 3
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In my room is my младенец,
I mean my little one. She is hungry,
Sucking dry air. My молоко, that
Says milk, is not good. I can’t make.
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3977 10 6
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My brother and I had often debated whether we could get our father to shave his moustache off, just to see if his sophistication remained intact without it.
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3969 3 1
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I became a fool for Adrienne Parker the first moment I set eyes on her.
Whenever Parker walked into Oliveira's Cafe my breath would stop. I'd try turning away, then find my gaze locked on her face. Maybe it was her bare arms that I found so appealing
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3968 29 9
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It was Christopher who got her thinking about the Jews again. He had left the same day they did, and so all were connected in her mind, as if together somehow. She read his letters half-wondering if he would mention them, wanting to know if the Jews were
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3963 20 11
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Maybe you should consider a few more things before embarking upon actual rescue, like: Is the victim hot? Not stove hot, idiot. Beauty hot. Will this be a triumph to save this person (like perhaps they are some Nobel laureate), or are you risking you
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3962 24 15
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My life is life in shape alone./
The substance leaks away like blood/
removed by the embalmer’s art.
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3961 16 30
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Cahill—Dr. Cahill to those who knew him in his small town in Maine—had decided that his screened porch should be relocated. Wouldn't it be better to winterize the current porch, adding a door at the far end which would lead to a new, smaller porch,…
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3959 5 1
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It was not until my twelfth birthday that I realised the face I saw in the mirror was not mine.
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3957 57 28
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It was like the time we broke icicles dripping from the low eaves and brandished them like swords...
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3954 22 15
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Dear End of the World. We're having a party. Stop by if you're in the neighborhood.
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3951 25 24
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I see his look, his impatient look.
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3951 35 31
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I am not against the darkness / I can learn to live with restraint
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3947 55 53
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You marched in step from 9 to 5, kept perfect pace, pledged allegiance to enforced mediocrity, until the day they let you go—the day you knew that you were never Buddy Holly on their plane; just another passenger, brilliant but doomed.
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3933 7 6
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Nobody goes over there cause that’s where the body was found. A little one. Half in and half out the water, waded up like paper.
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3925 21 21
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"... you shake your head and look down as if I am a mongrel dog who has pissed the Tabriz..."
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3913 12 8
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you dug a hole inside my heart
and asked me if it hurt
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3909 25 15
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My brother was the catcher, and we were having sex. I was waiting to be scared. In our act, he would swing upside down from the bar, hanging by his knees, his arms extended, and I would fly into his chalky grip.
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3908 16 10
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the slow stretches across the horizon
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3908 39 24
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I hit the pole near Whited Avenue a year to the day.
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3899 80 36
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When he tried to kiss her, she ran to the bathroom to throw up.
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3892 45 29
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He sat on a leather couch in the nude, blew smoke rings shaped like wild animals and picked verses out of the thick air.
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