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A discussion at the homeless colony under the expressway overpass crossing the river:
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“You wouldn't believe it.” Peter leaned in to whisper. “Don’t let the Kodak moment with the wife and kids fool you. That guy is totally gay.”
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214561
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Just like that. He heard her words clearly from the top floor of the five story apartment building. The unexpected change in weather made it mandatory for him to open his window.
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Sasha and I had snorted a table of cocaine and I had her trapped inside my Joy Division bedroom.
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2145118
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You the macho man
shuffling one woman
out the back entrance
to let another one in the front.
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It could as well be late night infomercials/
saturating the screen//
with medieval looking exercise machines
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214401
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“Charlie was right about you, Nan,” she said in a voice of pure defeat. “You are a gentle spirit. And probably too good for people like us.”
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He disliked intrusion and very specifically innocuous intrusion, nice guys, one might say, who tried to be near him to learn something from him or who admired him but who, as in that passage, came merely to disturb his work.
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2143128
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his perfect ivory
voice telling me
i brush too hard.
…as if he cared
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214355
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But all that they found at the top was bloody red spatters on pure white snowflakes. And beyond that footprints that got smaller and smaller until they disappeared completely into the spicy green pines.
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214385
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On his last day of high school Jackie York woke up to the smell of burning books. He didn't know it was his last day of high school. He did know the smoke coming through his rusty window screen was book smoke.
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2142108
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I am not a gun, but I think I may have pulled a plastic movie trigger in some kind of real world action before, accelerated, pivotal scene, one way or another before, this new frame came into its paranoid view .You see? I am not a plastic water bottle,but I…
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all paths converge on Africa/
and Eden, and the fall from animal grace
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214200
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For years I watched behind the glass
While merry parties purpled past
But now the world’s a Solemn Mass
And I can only think.
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214294
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America has given birth to many great poets--Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Muhammad Ali--but why should talented people have all the fun?
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214200
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The Sentinels flew low and through the woods. Carefully navigating their way around the trees, they heard the sound of birds chirping and frogs croaking in the morning.
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214221
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It's Halloween again, the season when my mother died.
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214196
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Wish you weren't here,
Moon man in your cargo shorts.
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214153
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They met on a bus. The bus got lost. He had corn chips. She had a tuna sandwich. They shared. “This is good,” he said. “Did you make this?” …
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I drove to you in April / and you loved me all through Illinois
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She’s the worst student in my Modern Film class and we’re alone at a bar.
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214076
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His toenails were so long they curled under and into the black leathery pads of his feet. They lightly clacked on our linoleum, tap shoes made of thick petrified roots. He didn't seem to mind.
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the brand we like best and buy whether it's on sale or not. Surely there is another blue cheese dressing that is sold, possibly in San Francisco and made in a Berkeley basement by hippies who scrape together all of their change twice a year and buy cheese from an ancient…
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214011
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"John is going to love it when he finds out that it pees," Bobby said. Kelly laughed and dropped a towel on the floor.
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2140107
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Carthage, Rome subdued:/itself, Rome never long tamed./Memento mori.
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21401814
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I peel off my shorts and tee-shirt, step out of my shoes, and crawl into bed. She wakes up then. "Oh, my goodness," she says.
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214011
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Stretch marks part my heart,
stretch marks part my body.
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Poor souls. Likely they'll be poets.
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This is the story of my friend, Gil
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