2058 21 16
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Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back.
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2058 17 11
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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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2058 0 0
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He heard her crying out behind the curtain that had been drawn around the bed. Each cry was more strained than the last. She complained about the burning, called the nurses "putane" and threatened to rip out the device they'd inserted into her. He sat t
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2057 6 3
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At night, instead of sleep, there were new and secret pleasures. Half-awake lessons in dexterity, in the limber material of human life.
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2057 5 4
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I am a sunflower. I turn my yellow and black face, bruised, to the sun, hoping its light will heal me. With my eyes closed I can see my stamen, veins in my eyelids, bulbous where they intersect. The sun feeds…
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2057 5 3
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Somehow I always had to sit behind him. I remember because he had a constellation of skin tags on his neck. I thought about drawing stars on him; I thought about creating a new galaxy I would rule. I should have been learning math instead. I still can’t
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2057 0 0
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Face it girls, you want to claw my eyes out, don’t you? Or whack me across my 36 DD’s with a golf club, am I right? Well don’t blame me if I’m young, gorgeous, full-breasted and obviously the cat’s meow.
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2057 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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2057 10 5
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The waters rose / on the earth
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2057 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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2057 9 6
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All of those lovelies, pitched on the ground, ignored and ready to rot.
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2056 5 4
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Often we sit in silence and age. We are observers of dust, fashioning ourselves into antiques.
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2056 7 3
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Like all professors, I'm required to maintain office hours to help my students so I'm at my desk every fourth Tuesday of months without an "r" in them from 10:30 to 11:00 p.m.
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2056 3 2
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This is what my summer has come to: me, out of a job, aimlessly driving around the city looking for places to write, places to read, places to occupy my time.
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2056 1 0
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Azure became silent. She never thought of her death before, nor thought about actually fighting creatures and saving people’s lives.
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2056 17 16
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Ed wants to watch the last half of the football game. His wife wants him to mow the lawn.
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2055 8 0
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What can I say about my brother, Stroman. We are twins and we hate each other. He is an honest, brave man with scruples. He is full of bullshit. He thinks I am morally twisted. He probably has a point there, but I don’t see what that has got to do with
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2055 5 1
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unbury yourself from the silt and give me some seal love.
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2055 17 16
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"Why so ornery?" she asked.
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2055 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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2055 14 5
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She asks if I would like to join them.
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2055 0 0
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I'm in awe of her frankness, how she takes my breath away, how I wish to rush off with her to a splendid hideaway where only the two of us touch the grape-stained mountains and the cerulean sea, wild blades of grass quivering with the breeze. Sometimes th
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2054 24 16
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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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2054 15 16
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You should be calling 911
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2054 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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2054 7 0
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Who is the moron that invented the Snuggie?
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2054 14 11
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She'd liked the name of the tanker. The Amoco Cadiz.
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2053 1 0
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For Hector it was animals. Rats, dogs, fish, and quite often horses – sometimes even lions. But for Achilles, it was always dead bodies.
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2053 0 1
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meanings figure into traffic streams reds fade, trickle down the long ‘V' another passing human ear; tall, tall buildings paper poised on horizon. situations gape in and out of seconds corners turn to disappearance, witness follows fingers…
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2053 15 14
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The mandatory is not / your friend
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