833 0 0
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I never thought that I would be
here
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1366 7 6
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didn't know how to do it
just tried to squeeze on the teats
didn't know I had to grab up on the udder and pull
Unca Ole laughed
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1422 18 16
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I can’t take my eyes off a tall blonde with green eyes. I catch her eye.
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1040 2 0
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I’m starting to feel more interested in my savings account.
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641 2 0
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"They measured the lobsters and they were short. But like I said, not by much. If they had any sense they’d leave the poor guy alone and go after the big fish.”
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1143 12 7
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She has dwindled for the better part of a year, staved off her period, breasts and hips like a warrior. Chestnut strands that danced along candy apple cheeks now surrender to metal pins, her bun severe as an old maid's. Her prominent ears…
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1175 9 11
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The brain taints everything it brings to us/
with its limited apparatus, its precepts,//
all the things it thinks it knows.
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1104 8 0
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Beautiful, he thinks, as he taps the ash of his cigarette over the balcony, but this is not good enough.
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1139 6 6
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alright, alright but not so much of a friendly little cigar-chomping companion-like a friendly ghost! That sweeping hair of longed for sleeping only awaits you once you've drowned too …
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1152 4 1
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Ben was not a happy musician.
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2071 22 22
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The mouth is peculiar and so are the shoes.
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1672 10 13
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pluck me from the charred grate
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2103 41 33
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I need to get in and out, you say.
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1111 1 1
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Grow.A word.A verb.Germanic.Feel it.Slow.Old.Young.Now I'll tell you how put it on a page:we'll start with the o.Take your pen just so,thin first,from the centerand thick on the up, thin at the topand thick on the down, thin at the low,finish sharply.The r is a…
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1209 4 3
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The print is not ideal, it's true.
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586 0 0
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No matter how tough we make our gun laws, it’s the other goober states that let a dramatist with a lengthy record of prior absurdist plays buy an unregistered weapon at a gun show.
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2450 21 16
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I arranged all my books before you came, /
so that it appears I read some more than others.
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1410 18 17
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Johan was telling stories about the occupation. The Germans were stupid, he said.
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1144 10 7
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There were too many laws but not enough of the kinds she wanted. She wished for the right to go shopping. Then taste rather than disposable income or access to finance could distinguish people.
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1332 11 12
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Regrets lined behind him like crossties on a railroad track.
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1389 22 17
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While you can,/
find the beautiful
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1311 7 4
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They were
obviously having
some secret
beach affair.
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1132 4 2
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The rain is filling up my shoes,
I can’t see
through my glasses,
Rain all inside me.
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1087 3 2
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Once upon a time he'd thought her as cold a fish as her aristocratic husband
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1183 2 2
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1The Bird King's eggs are subatomic particles created serendipitously by a sneeze in a quantum physicist's dream.Occupying a space between existence and nothingness, reason and madness, broccoli and…
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2153 9 7
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This little town lost its mill...
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893 0 0
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tragically / once upon a time / two people / far away / ...
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1337 6 3
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I am at a wedding with a new girlfriend. The bride is her old college roommate. I don't really know anyone else here. The wedding is being held at a huge estate, located on the edge of enormous cliffs that overlook the ocean. Despite the danger of this precarious…
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975 2 1
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Listening for a chain saw with one ear and to Todd and the trooper with the other, I’m trying to hustle up and finish my business - sweating in my coat and sweatshirt - and I think this: not so silly now, is it, this invisible or being able to fly choice?
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1505 11 10
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he scans the headlines of the tabloids as he waits to pay. “Dog Accidentally Shoots Man With His Own Gun, Elvis's Hidden Extraterrestrial Daughter, Swedish Man Bursts Into Flames on Train Platform.”
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