2060 15 16
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You should be calling 911
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20602116
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Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back.
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2060165
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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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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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206000
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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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20601716
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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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206097
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the observation, at the end, more/
important than the being there—
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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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205975
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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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2059145
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She asks if I would like to join them.
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205963
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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.
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205932
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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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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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20582416
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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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205851
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unbury yourself from the silt and give me some seal love.
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205800
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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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2058105
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The waters rose / on the earth
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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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2058117
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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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205753
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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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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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205797
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500 miles
all the way from Omaha
nine hours
on the back of a flatbed truck
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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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205770
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Who is the moron that invented the Snuggie?
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205610
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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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205610
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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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20561514
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The mandatory is not / your friend
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