2062 9 7
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the observation, at the end, more/
important than the being there—
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206163
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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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206175
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When detox-man drives away, the windows down, the radio playing on the classic rock station (The Eagles), he thinks about moving out of town.
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2061165
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Her eyes stared wide with panic, her teeth chattered intermittently with impressive intensity, and with her ineffectual stabs at the air she completed the portrait of distracted mania.
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206196
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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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20611716
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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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20601516
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You should be calling 911
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206051
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unbury yourself from the silt and give me some seal love.
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20602116
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Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back.
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20601711
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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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20602016
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Just bring me his head, that cerebral kiln of hot, ruddy verbiage and cadence.
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206066
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Driving up to the Palisades after 9/11 for a meteor shower
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20592416
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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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205954
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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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205900
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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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2059145
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She asks if I would like to join them.
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2059105
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The waters rose / on the earth
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205963
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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.
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2059117
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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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205940
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Let whoever may read this know: I am an evil man, and I have done evil things.
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205810
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It's dawn. It's quiet on the pond in the Public Garden. The light is calm, the pollution is mild, and everything is still,except for the occasional cruising taxi. It's the beginning of spring-- tulips out, leaves…
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205853
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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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205897
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500 miles
all the way from Omaha
nine hours
on the back of a flatbed truck
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205800
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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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20581514
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The mandatory is not / your friend
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205780
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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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20571716
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"Why so ornery?" she asked.
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205773
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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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205710
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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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205770
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Who is the moron that invented the Snuggie?
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