1923 2 2
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It was 1986 when I met you. We both lived on Decatur Avenue in a tank that had enough room for you, me, and all our fake plastic accoutrement. I was 30 years old -- really old for a jellyfish. Some people thought I'd die sooner. But I knew better. I was…
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192300
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You would never see me the same again. You'd always be peaking at me from behind your mother's apron.
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192252
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this one was abandoned... a splinter left under the skin, pushed out by protective flesh
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192288
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I took 7 Beatle Song Titles and Made 7 Darryl Poems Out of Them"Some musicians heal ethnic groups. Some musicians heal nations. The Beatles healed an entire planet."--Joe Queenan"There was adventure,knowingness,love,and abundant charm.From any angle,they are the…
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1922123
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....sees the beginning of a new day through the closed shutters, hears the guard washing up at the sink, feels the beginning of a cry in his throat.
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192294
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And I watched,
from her warm bed,
the curtains dancing
in the window
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192221
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poon fred / loop ilo/ bussy yubb tree
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192294
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Every morning, the children dig holes for their parents. This is both necessary and beneficial: the kids need to dig and the parents have to be buried.
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192184
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“I wanted coffee, not art. That’s why I came here, and the coffee here isn’t even that good. We should have gone to the place across town, their lattes are the best.”
“How do you determine the best coffee? Do you think they have judges that go from sto
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192142
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“You buy shit, it’s gonna smell like shit,” he said. “You should’ve come to me like I told you and got a good deal with my nephew.”
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192100
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The man with the truncheon emerged at the monorail car's forward connecting doorway. One moment the space was vacant, a faux metal canvas for the dazzling sunlight streaming through a grime-encrusted window. When next Theseus Harrow looked up from his seat the dark-suited…
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192133
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I also understand if you don't think that's fair. But consider this: If she doesn't operate according to those rules, then where are we? Isn't that anarchy?
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192020
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I am alive, and I am hungry. Angry, I want more. I am not content with what you're offering me. Forty hours a week, two weeks vacation. A mortgage and car payments. Wife and kids, a dog in the suburbs. It's all incredibly unexciting, unsatisfying.
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192043
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...I grew up in a provincial town which at the time had no bookstore and no library — no library even at school...
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192093
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1920107
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Carthage, Rome subdued:/itself, Rome never long tamed./Memento mori.
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192055
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Your voice is yearning,
Like a sad song on the radio,
A yarn spun to make hearts break.
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191958
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Mama hung them everywhere. It started with just a few, in our apartment and outside on the brick. She made walls into windows.
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191965
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The tapestry of time gets another stitch.
The countdown clock rolls forward.
The whole crazy picture gets a little bit
clearer.
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19191914
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I'm sitting here listening to Nebraska and it's / breaking my heart
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191900
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A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.(IMDB synopsis) That's the idea swimming so far as it is in…
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191898
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my father has a phobia of dentists./ he also once felt/ that if the house ran out of toilet paper/ he would lose his job.
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19182114
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all paths converge on Africa/
and Eden, and the fall from animal grace
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191883
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Morning claims me from sleep before I can say noYou wake up instantly from your alarm clock's ringYou are bright, enthusiastic, ready to cooperateIt will be a good dayYou shower, dress and I prepare your breakfastEggs, soft, toast two ways, one with salmon cream cheese,One…
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191800
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Once upon a time a queen was blessed with twin sons, which she named Nosch and Amiaivel.
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1917149
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i stained his hockey sheets
right over the red wings
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191731
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I have never met Joe’s brother, of course.
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191773
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His wings were down when he got into the truck. It was a used UPS truck we’d bought from someone in Berkeley, and we painted out the letter “S,” so that it just read “UP.”
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191741
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Approaching the kitchen from the foyer the reverb lessened until heel and floor where flint on flint. No spark was made.
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19171611
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In this episode the children in the classroom will all wear boxes over their heads and will search the room with their hands. Their hands will be hands that have been reconnected. Their hands will wear seams as sleeves and curse in red. The hands that…
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