1206 13 11
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Ah, how sweet is forbidden fruit, how delicious undiscovered sin!
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2556 31 24
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Write a list of what's wrong with everyone else.
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1194 3 2
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It's a tunnel, you know, like the neck of a bottle, the tunnel the hair comes up, it's coming out soon, I'm an adolescent now, dammit.
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1201 3 2
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I asked him his name and here’s the kicker, Leiby. It means lion.
You know what? I said mine is Levi, how do you do.
That means to accompany—like in the root of the word, it’s got that meaning.
As in levayah, funeral in Hebrew. Does that only
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1909 7 6
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Her voice mail announced: “I’m coming for three days...Make sure the dog hair’s cleaned up, I have allergies.”
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1224 11 6
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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955 0 0
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I am—
a plan in progress.
I am motion in motion,
a direction headed in the right direction
by way of an off beaten trail
of misdirection.
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1315 0 0
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Under the darkness of their new city. The heave and moan of structures as they breathed and pulsed. Under the darkness of this city, under the hum of their florescent bulbs and the tumbling rattle of motorcars, the wheeze of their machines and the clank o
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1653 9 5
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Scratch his eyes out, flashed through Edgar's head, scratch his eyes out.
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1490 19 10
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A constellation appears in the shape of Van Gogh’s missing ear.
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1907 21 15
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In the dread / of night, navigate by the sliver moon
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1260 0 0
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Not every day a battle is won.
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1641 3 3
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1223 2 2
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Someone set a pig aflame.
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1245 3 3
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1533 2 1
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Beard of Bees
My father always used to say to me, he said "Son" (he called me son) "Son. Falling in love is easy. Getting into the Guinness Book of World Records is hard".
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1128 0 0
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Bruce Springsteen begins singing from the loud speaker he was bruised and battered and couldn’t tell what he felt.
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1374 2 2
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That's when we struggle, got it? Right there on the floor. It's not the brawl of the century, and I'm not the pilot who delivers the Enola Gay.
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841 0 0
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Everybody was out on the deck and you could feel the deck swaying a little with the weight of all the people. There was loud music inside but it was too hot and nobody was dancing and they were all out on the deck. Lisa was out there and either she would not…
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1894 11 7
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The revolution. It found me, and I didn’t even get blown by the bomb.
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1666 12 10
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'This dude’s whole life must be in this book. It’s like, a man diary.' The thought makes her laugh.
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792 0 0
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Dissonance is indispensable
Observes Marcel Proust in a rowboat
I hold in my hand a fire
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1491 0 0
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Remember the glass changing room just off the pool terrace? It's been replaced by a juice bar. Seems fitting, really.
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1073 0 0
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What do I understand?
What have I mastered or come to terms with?
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1042 2 0
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He strikes out with this one...
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1315 8 3
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1297 3 2
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... and the train pulls up and my shadow from yesterday steps off, and I'm standing on one leg balancing just like the weather between winter and spring, I hear a siren and my heart races, I'm about to step aboard when I hear footsteps behind me and two hands cover my eyes…
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1357 14 6
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I was a six year old with no bike. Only the males in my familyhad that privilege. So one morning I got up very early, before the older siblings awoke, crept out the back porch door where Iknew there would be two bikes in the yard just waiting for me and my…
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1405 5 2
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this one was abandoned... a splinter left under the skin, pushed out by protective flesh
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1296 9 7
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Weight of faithlessness...
Mist
Of bodily
Existence
Grave expectations for the future
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