1923 15 8
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Being simple like this, knowing a thing is done by doing.
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1923113
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The impression old Updike left on a young mind.
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19232310
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An Ayurvedic astrologer tells her that she is a child of India. Is a girl born in Indiana a mistake of just two letters on a Scrabble board?
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1923167
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He wears an old black tux, shiny at the elbows, and his gray hair has been styled and sprayed into a fragile tornado. On his lap sits a Chihuahua wearing a bridal outfit—veil and all.
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19221810
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She was a forward-motion girl. She never bothered to learn to walk as a baby. Instead, she stood up and ran.
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192273
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see this:/ ink-stained paper/ littering miles
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192240
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Gyan Ban Thoughts - This post is about aspiring models.Scores of these dreams get killed everyday under the arc lights. Exploitation is rampant and millions of cases go unreported.This story is of one such incident.
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192284
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When I was thirteen and still lived in the desert I saw a ghost woman at the top of a dry waterfall in the foothills.
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192154
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Often we sit in silence and age. We are observers of dust, fashioning ourselves into antiques.
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192101
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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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192163
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No flinch, no stretch, no letting the cook get all golden about the chopping block.
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1921188
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"leaves &damage, &shifts of shape"
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192052
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My mate and I are owned, but have freedom to take to the endless sky.
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19202315
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proving little more/
than the player’s keyboard dexterity.
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192052
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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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1920117
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I've been avoidingyour beautiful fact for years in just the past few hours it seemslike it was the scariest plague on earth. Andit worries me becauseit's something so new that Idon't know what to dowith myself.Yes I wouldn't knowwhat to…
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191911
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Angelina Jolie, seducer of Brad Pitt, tattooed mother of rescued orphans, and the unlikely daughter of Jon Voight who broke Billy Bob Thornton's heart, is only two blocks from me, in a travel trailer on Seventh Street, gently rousing herself from sleep.
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191967
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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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1919177
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To make extra money, my father wrote music reviews for the Calgary Herald, and on Saturday nights, he went to hear the Symphony, or into recital halls to listen to the chamber music that was being performed around the city. He took me, once, to a performa
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191932
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Oh, you can’t stay, your poetry/
Is still out in the world, maybe when you die/Your volumes will make their way/Not just here but
everywhere
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19191716
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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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191821
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Hi Zin, Really enjoyed seeing you again at Miranda Sinned. Looked like you enjoyed doing the St. Vitus. Don't ask me how but I got rum and coke on my panties. When I got home, I had a craving for tongue and my honey's talking squid, later, some fruit loops without milk. Q.…
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191897
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500 miles
all the way from Omaha
nine hours
on the back of a flatbed truck
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191863
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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.
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191832
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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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191855
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He moved his rotten breath closer to my mouth, like he wanted to twirl his tongue around just to see how it felt.
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191732
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Rockin' Joe Heath stumbled into the stairwell in nothing but a black Zildjian t-shirt, shushing himself, trying to see right, pounding head. He recalled the old lily pattern of the wallpaper and something about the tattered edges…
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191764
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In grief, I'd ride a slow train there with you, /
one hand in yours and one hand on the rail,
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1917127
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Bloop. Velvet's paws hit the carpet. The new man of the house is on the prowl for food, a walk. Breakfast was Rice-A-Roni; for lunch I'm serving Ring Dings. Perhaps he'd like a bite?
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