2077 7 6
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Butch the Labradoodle sets some necessary boundaries.
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2077105
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The waters rose / on the earth
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207610
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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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207692
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You never thought you were capable of rape.
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2076126
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After the show they talked at the famous comedian, reaching the way they do, with their arms. Their arms are curved a good way, a better way than the older white planes of my own.
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207664
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Riding in a pick-up-truck,
the radio wailing
some 'love em and leave em" country song,
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207670
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Who is the moron that invented the Snuggie?
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207500
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A human cop and a cyborg detective team up to solve a case. A sci-fi-pulp-noir-detective story.
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207554
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Jacabo gave the boy a can of beer with oxycontin and rat poison in it. He instructed the boy to drink and talk. Jacabo did this, fully aware that making ghosts was a costly enterprise.
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207500
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Soft voices in private, in the street,
city noise violence disappears
she blinks her eyelids
and I can hear the lashes
intertwine and pull clear.
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20752413
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You hear the thrum of blowflies first...
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20751414
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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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207463
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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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207400
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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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2074148
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I like the smoke going in
but I like it even more
when it's coming out
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207353
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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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207373
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see this:/ ink-stained paper/ littering miles
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207380
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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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207322
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The mother was happy, though. She was happy because she could make him some soup and then she could feed it to him in bed.
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207366
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Driving up to the Palisades after 9/11 for a meteor shower
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207251
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“What about the other groups coming here?” I ask. “Were they asked what they wanted in these houses?” She turns and looks at me, like I've suddenly come onto her radar.
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20722013
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There’s / no crying in poetry!” says Coach / Bukowski
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207100
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Casting nets like Jesus to a metaphor sea
Admittedly as weak as me
But I need the hike,
Like we still like Ike
To tell us about the Military Industrial Complex
Though he never told us what came next
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207152
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Having a single blurb on your book cover is like having a single friend in grade school. So I lied.
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2071119
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strumming on the pipe/blowing on the lute's body/drumming on the horn.
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207123
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I believe in theCollective conscienceOf Mankind Whatever the masses wantComes into fruitionSome genius will create itIf we want warWe will get warWe don't want peaceSo we never get itJust consider The smartphoneWhat a great deviceIt seems as if we should neverBe bored…
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207020
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I am alive, and I am hungry. Angry, I want more. I am not content with what you're offering me. Forty hours a week, two weeks vacation. A mortgage and car payments. Wife and kids, a dog in the suburbs. It's all incredibly unexciting, unsatisfying.
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207074
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Start with a long look down the alley, a small hoodied figure turning in.
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207033
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"Dad, I already told you about your wife. She’s not coming."
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