2087 0 1
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The everlasting shone through when skirting the tenuous threshold of the two worlds.
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2087 12 5
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2087 9 4
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And I watched,
from her warm bed,
the curtains dancing
in the window
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2086 12 5
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The right is empty, waiting to receive the load like a catcher behind home plate.
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2086 19 18
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He was a tenth grade / messiah, famous for acts of attrition.
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2086 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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2086 9 7
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500 miles
all the way from Omaha
nine hours
on the back of a flatbed truck
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2086 5 3
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Once upon a time, my friend and I met a nanny pushing a baby carriage and reading an e-book. She wore a plaid dress, blue stockings and a white barrette. A set of wrinkles marred her tanned brow. Multitasking seemed too hard on her.
Inside the carriage
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2086 13 7
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2086 11 7
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He was her summer fling, the first cock to crow when the sun rose over her tequila smile.
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2085 15 16
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You should be calling 911
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2085 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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2084 7 4
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Suddenly the auditory havoc dies down and she falls into a loop, saying BANANA CREME PIES FOR SIXTY PERCENTS over and over.
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2084 5 1
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unbury yourself from the silt and give me some seal love.
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2084 17 16
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"Why so ornery?" she asked.
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2084 2 2
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one numberless character, an army of rants marching one by one, sand by sand, we move mountains this way…
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2084 8 4
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It calmed the guilt in my heart while kids reveled, laughed, and "made time" with the neighborhood girls on that final night of freedom.
No one would talk to those girls again.
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2084 15 6
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with images overflowing with delicate thought scenes with nightmarish wet dreams
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2084 2 1
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poon fred / loop ilo/ bussy yubb tree
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2084 3 2
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He wasn’t there for the beginning or the end. In the beginning, he was still a wild thing. Nothing more than a voice in the chorus of the Dark Continent, back when it was a thing of terrible beauty and attracted people like the old man; people who breathe
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2084 12 11
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The other day I’m in the backyard with one of my kids, doing what he’s calling a training exercise, which is basically the two of us with flashlights, shinning the beams over the grass and up into the night to see what we can see.
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2083 14 4
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"What I need to wear the ring for," I said to myself, "I already got his last name..."
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2083 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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2083 9 6
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Got me a 50 pound bat ray.
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2083 9 9
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What if I said;
I never liked actually reading?
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2083 20 16
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Just bring me his head, that cerebral kiln of hot, ruddy verbiage and cadence.
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2083 9 6
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The phone owner pre-writes his or her dying words! The app stores them and releases them at the moment of his death!
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2083 26 18
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Rothko explored horizons,/
blurring figure and ground/
by omitting the figure.
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2083 2 1
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... red lipstick shiny in the bar's light, raven-colored hair spiky and toussled. Jen opened her mouth to say something, stickiness of her cherry Chapstick separating with her lips ... and the girl leaned in and started kissing her.
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2082 7 3
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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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