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Momma’s hands smell of vanilla.
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god bless my shapeless head. we are good at becoming older. i feel incredibly negative all the time.
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Everyone at the Bermudez Brothers Combined Shows and Circus held one low opinion or another about Jimmy Dubcek.
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captured by his lens and plates/
before humidity and hydrocarbons/
smudge the crisp clean lines
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The hour reflected those pleasant moments when evening hunger can be satiated by anticipation alone, before the pangs become demanding.
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I'm slim, baby, caramelized as a Slo-Poke buried in the fatty acids of some old dog's guts. The way they creep, frantic with finesse, free, locking their eyes in the dental mirror. It's wrong, maybe, but who'd dare to declaw them? Look at it from their angle, the one that…
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The music, Antonín Dvořák's 'New World Symphony,' the second movement, 'Largo,' immediately alters my mood.
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"Why so ornery?" she asked.
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1599 10 5
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It’s a bitch of a day, devious. It started out calm and then those monsoon showers hit. The lads legged it back to the vans for a bit of a warm sup. He was going to follow them. The rain machine-gunned the window.
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I was a disposable disaster at first, a thousand Light years ago. We sail the seas we're given, and Like all of you I did my best to survive , but that doesn't mean we get To survive it like you. Our course may have blown us Completely…
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1599 18 9
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She waves her hand around, says, “Pah!” and starts digging invisible things out of the potato salad with her bare hands.
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1599 10 5
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I walked the desert of the sun. Light was the sage, the Joshua, and the wild grass.
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Train travel is listed as a possible cause for deep vein thrombosis, a condition that causes blood to clot in the legs. Ray did not tell me this, but I looked it up later, remembered the disability status on his Charlie Card.Baclofen is not used for the treatment of…
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1599 4 4
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She was the darling girl, the blond with the great ass, the small tits and the flashing green eyes who could quote poetry, who wanted to be a singer, who collected fireflies in glass jars, hoarded pieces of broken jewelry, and watched heat lighting dance
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1599 0 0
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Protag noted that Gertrud’s brow was knotted with stress and rage, as if she’d been drinking too much coffee and reading the latest translation of Simone de Beauvoir.
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To write a good poem, one needs nothing but the whole intent of goodness.
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The end is rehearsed over and over;/
in a world without heaven all is farewell.
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1598 4 2
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I'd been living in Boston, but, on a whim, flew to London, England. Soon I was working as support staff for the actor Alan Bates and his wife, Victoria, on a movie called "The Shout", shooting in Devon.
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1598 0 1
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I watch my brother carry her into the hospital, and I love him with parts of myself I didn’t know were capable of love. I love my brother with the space behind my eyes, the skin between my fingers, the ends of my hair, the crease in my neck. I love him wi
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There was that long weekend she'd spent lazing around a suite at the Beverly Wilshire between the Golden Globes and the Oscars with the suddenly now married actor, and then there had been Cabo. This was before the current thing and before the thing before
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There he was. Minnesota Fats, short and pudgy, jowly and blond-haired.
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She drew her hands out of the chest cavity and looked at the clock.
‘Time of death,’ she said.
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The painting was on loan from a gallery in Chicago. We stood there connecting the dots.
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You’re ridiculous. Time travel is impossible, Steven.
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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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...you lick you ice cream, little pink tongue like a cat's, flick, flick... lick fast, girl, the heat's gonna melt it...
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1596 15 10
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. . . quit being so rigid, open up to the pasta.
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1596 20 9
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In that mix of sports and religion, TV was what there was of virtue. I thought bars were nicer.
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I want nothing to do with anyone,
other than doing nothing with you.
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I’ve been such a fool, so reckless and untrue.
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