2063 0 0
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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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2062 9 6
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Got me a 50 pound bat ray.
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2062 9 9
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What if I said;
I never liked actually reading?
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2062 24 7
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I watched as the light fled
from your eyes,
No slowly dimming lamp,
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2062 23 15
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proving little more/
than the player’s keyboard dexterity.
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2062 1 1
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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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2061 5 0
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Please direct your attention to the flight attendants as they demonstrate the safety features of this aircraft.
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2061 0 0
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But there, up the street, just coming into the corner of the window, someone was in the middle of the road. Walking literally down the middle, dragging one leg like it was heavy or broken, carving a fat line next to the skinny one the good one made.
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2061 16 15
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• Don’t confuse the virtues of bananas with the virtues of banana bread
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2061 8 8
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I know now, how she moves without verbs
after you crushed her into the river.
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2061 19 9
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I screwed my courage to the sticking point and asked him if he had shot down any Japanese airplanes. He grinned at me. “One,” he said.
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2060 19 18
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He was a tenth grade / messiah, famous for acts of attrition.
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2060 12 5
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2060 8 6
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in her monestary mission, with her rosary and candles, time holds me here
my feet got the travelin' blues but my hands tie old women's bones to my hair
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2060 15 6
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with images overflowing with delicate thought scenes with nightmarish wet dreams
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2060 2 0
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I made my way quietly out back and sat in Helga’s whitewashed porch swing, listening to the first faint sounds of big band music drift out of Helga’s open windows and into the cooling summer air. The darkness was moving in slow from the east, interrup
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2060 0 0
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He said he'd searched in vain for his wife, Mary, before abandoning hope and the ship in one of the last row boats. He was allowed in because of his experience fishing.
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2060 9 5
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. . . the greater length of the so-called “Montebaldi Corridor” can still be walked without the least exposure to direct sunlight as long as the traveler is not active from 9 am to 3 pm local time.
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2059 8 5
|
On the table the image is by Chardin but the puzzle is by someone else and that is what he has dumped out of the box.
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2058 30 13
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I had felt suddenly lighter and next thing I knew I was watching Leonard Tucker and Sister William from somewhere near the ceiling. I saw myself, too, at my desk, holding my songbook out in front of me like everyone else.
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2058 7 4
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She began guiding Penny’s arms, whispering movements through her body. Memory and experience sang through every fiber of their being. The song had become her life.
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2058 7 3
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My favorite was a red bowler, a man's hat, which I never dared wear outside my tiny bedroom. My three brothers wanted it too much to take that kind of a risk. They'd poke me with various sharp objects: the serrated edge of the bread knife, the rusted TV
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2058 13 11
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He had her pinned to the back seat, expressing his love. Do you love me? she whispered in his ear. Do you, do you, Jimmy Dale, do you love me? His only response…
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2058 6 3
|
For some, a vertical pattern will evoke prison bars, for others, product bar codes.
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2058 5 3
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She wants her mother back and all I can give her is this—over and over. She doesn't want my mouth, wants no kissing anywhere even. Just this. Like this—quiet and rough. Quiet because her stepfather is napping in the bedroom next to…
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2057 7 3
|
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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2057 4 1
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I'm delighted to report that I've come up with my own school of thought. It's called, "Dress Like a Cat Until You Get What You Want."
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2057 12 8
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She was a beautiful woman. I don't argue with that. I welcome it.
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2057 6 6
|
Driving up to the Palisades after 9/11 for a meteor shower
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2057 8 2
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Jerry tries to be funny saying, I think Charlie Brown should kick Lucy in the head when she pulls the ball away; either that or they start making out. Ewww, but they're both eight years old, Sandra says biting her lip, tying off her smile. Jerry won't focus on her…
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