2112 6 3
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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.
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2112 14 7
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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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2112 4 0
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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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2112 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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2112 5 0
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Besides, that might have been the area of his birth, and if so, Jacob was now the director, priest, pallbearer, driver, and custodian of a hometown funeral
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2111 9 9
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What if I said;
I never liked actually reading?
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2111 8 7
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Megan beat up on herself later over the unsaid.
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2111 10 5
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The waters rose / on the earth
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2111 2 2
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“Pupilo Durcál!” She yelled. “You stupid pendejo!” He limped along without another glance. Rosa suddenly realized her dreams all week were really omens.
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2111 3 3
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"Dad, I already told you about your wife. She’s not coming."
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2111 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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2111 9 7
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the observation, at the end, more/
important than the being there—
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2110 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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2110 19 18
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He was a tenth grade / messiah, famous for acts of attrition.
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2110 15 8
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Being simple like this, knowing a thing is done by doing.
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2110 2 1
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poon fred / loop ilo/ bussy yubb tree
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2110 0 0
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The number 25 double-decker bus threads its way through the narrow two-lane streets. Coughing and burping without a hint of embarrassment, it carries us from the train station, with its cheerful round clockface and neat front of red brick, over the weepin
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2110 0 0
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Once upon a time a queen was blessed with twin sons, which she named Nosch and Amiaivel.
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2109 2 1
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“Your brain, your brain tries to make sense of things like this, specially life-threatening weird shit, so in my mind the grass was on fire and driving out swarms of invisible bees that were stinging us to death. Invisible killer bees. You don’t shoot be
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2109 21 16
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Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back.
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2109 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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2109 15 6
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with images overflowing with delicate thought scenes with nightmarish wet dreams
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2109 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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2109 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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2109 14 14
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That was before Cohen died. Castro died. Castro Died should be a title by Samuel Beckett. Once I nearly went out to buy a bass clarinet just for the purpose of playing along with Leonard Cohen.
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2108 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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2108 6 7
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“Too perfect.” my therapist intervenes in assurance, “You did enough, really. More than anyone else would.” I know the subtext is that I possibly did more than I should. My appointment is coincidentally later that day, after his goodbye letter arrives in
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2108 18 14
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I become a lake, a river, a stream, an ocean that will one day be able to move anything, anyone.
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2108 4 3
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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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2108 0 0
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The corpse lay silently in his open casket. Dressed in the finest silken suit. Italian. Rubber skin pulled over his bones. Arms folded in eternal prayer.
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