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Words are not like bricks. The neighborhood flowers from within the rituals that enframe the drinking of a macchiato in a café. Now it hovers over the page.
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215374
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Start with a long look down the alley, a small hoodied figure turning in.
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215263
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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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21521612
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Somehow the world survives
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21521516
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You should be calling 911
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215273
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Recently I think I became someone else.
When the alarm clock rings in the morning, it sounds sharper than usual; getting up, my feet don't seem to quite touch the floor; looking into my bathroom mirror, my face seems to be melting, sliding, my eyes dri
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21522116
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Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back.
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215232
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Love at first sight?
Not for me.
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2152117
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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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215288
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The trouble began in October, when Ava, an embittered receptionist who worked at a small museum housed in a five-story Westside brownstone, discovered that the floors were littered with enormous grey feathers
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215276
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His eyes drift over the body of every
woman who enters Starbucks, even though
he’s old enough to be their father or grandfather,
still his eyes are aware of every shape passing by,
refusing to let go, and die.
Maybe they’re speaking Polish or
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Rothko explored horizons,/
blurring figure and ground/
by omitting the figure.
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2152128
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On the usefulness of hands.
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215122
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Patrick Savage, who has died aged 29, was a poker player fast on his way to becoming a cult figure in the music scene.
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215192
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You never thought you were capable of rape.
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21512310
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An Ayurvedic astrologer tells her that she is a child of India. Is a girl born in Indiana a mistake of just two letters on a Scrabble board?
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21511211
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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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215021
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A killer enters the room. No one notices, and the show goes on.
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21502612
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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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21502013
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There’s / no crying in poetry!” says Coach / Bukowski
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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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2149156
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with images overflowing with delicate thought scenes with nightmarish wet dreams
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Some believe the Scots were encouraged to emigrate, hired guns as it were, to Ireland to civilize that population.
If that's the case, we would see it as another evil English trick. In any case, we MacGowans are Scots Irish and Protestant.
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Oh, you can’t stay, your poetry/
Is still out in the world, maybe when you die/Your volumes will make their way/Not just here but
everywhere
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214873
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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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214850
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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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214876
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Butch the Labradoodle sets some necessary boundaries.
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2148147
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You were given blame for action as experience by cause and effect now. If you take apart blame and even forgiveness is too rigid. She thinks of that purpose as to give men sexual destiny.
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Only strong personalities can endure such size, the weak ones are extinguished by it.
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Somewhere along tomorrow, I will forget I have the right to do this.
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