2059 9 7
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the observation, at the end, more/
important than the being there—
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205863
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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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205867
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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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20582116
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Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back.
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20581711
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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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205884
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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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205754
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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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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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205700
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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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2057145
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She asks if I would like to join them.
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2057105
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The waters rose / on the earth
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205796
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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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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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20571716
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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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205680
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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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205654
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Often we sit in silence and age. We are observers of dust, fashioning ourselves into antiques.
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20561716
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"Why so ornery?" she asked.
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205600
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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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205632
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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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205610
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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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20552416
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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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205551
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unbury yourself from the silt and give me some seal love.
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205597
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500 miles
all the way from Omaha
nine hours
on the back of a flatbed truck
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20541516
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You should be calling 911
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2054117
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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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205470
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Who is the moron that invented the Snuggie?
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20541411
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She'd liked the name of the tanker. The Amoco Cadiz.
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205310
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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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205301
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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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20531514
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The mandatory is not / your friend
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