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“There are no inhibitions in here,” the postman shouted, gesturing at the dance floor with his Marlboro Light, the glowing tip aimed at a woman in a taut skirt. Leaning far forward, her hands nearly touching the plywood floor, she planted her feet and beg
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190488
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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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190433
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19043313
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There was dad sitting at the table, wide awake, reading glasses on nose, pen in hand above a Doppler graph of numbers on paper, one of many now-lost theorems, looking up as his son walked into the room.
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190461
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To my right, blank stares interchange with closed eyelids on an unkempt face. The minutes drip into the endless sea of night outside the window, each time creating a deeper blackness.
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190411
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A 1960’s of walking sugar beet fields to remove the rogue bolters by hand and on other days painting the ironwork of cattle sheds with red oxide. Then a 1970’s when the self-inking explosion of tattoos on his hands and then his body began.
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190441
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“There’s cheap land at Cudlee Creek perfect for breeding long-haired rabbits,” he added. “They can’t jump high so fencing costs are low.”
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190455
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It seems the people of this house were a happy family – The smiling faces, the children’s enthusiasm tells me as much. I wonder what happened to them.
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190486
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no one else comes in my back door but you
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1904168
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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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190300
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See a girl like Lily sitting offstage in a wooden chair in a fourth-rate club somewhere, crying, holding on so hard to so little, and as it breaks your heart to watch; forgive me. Understand me. You can’t rescue us. We all deserve more.
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190343
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[testing ... one, two, three ... testing ... is this thing on? ... ok, here goes:]
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190371
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In 1978, a computer program became privy to my grandmother's most secret thoughts.
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19033017
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It was a surprise they put me in a dormitory, not a cell,
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190354
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You can’t take a chandelier on an emergency dash across a nuclear desert.
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190362
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You longed to rip off her butterfly wings and watch her scream in agony. You ached to carve the steel from her eyes.
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19031311
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that moon does not think (unless mineral thoughts) . . .
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190370
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Who is the moron that invented the Snuggie?
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19022612
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In her belief that Juni is lucky, Jade eases the horrors our mother suffers at night, not because Juni is stuck in a physical passion, but because the whole family and whole groups of strangers know what Juni is doing for sex.
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19022118
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There can be no convergence./
There is only the talking that talks about/
an angle of sight nothing else can share.
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19021615
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• Don’t confuse the virtues of bananas with the virtues of banana bread
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190260
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“Actually, children, none of us will be having birthdays this year,” my father sighed.
“Not even me? Why?” asked Charlie.
"Son, this is what's known as a ‘one-party democracy."
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190234
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Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.
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190213
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While I didn’t like to see Courtney swat smokes out of his mouth and admonish him, saying “Cigarettes. Bad. Fire. Bad,” her home was such a beautiful place, with its real wood and two TV and all...
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1901125
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The right is empty, waiting to receive the load like a catcher behind home plate.
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190199
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What if I said;
I never liked actually reading?
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1901145
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She asks if I would like to join them.
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19011011
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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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1901106
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He kind of enjoyed living by himself. It was nice and peaceful.
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1901153
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He stopped the shower and recounted his life, now Kin-less and plain.
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