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As soon as a complication emerges, the obvious choice is to move to another line. But I don't. I can't.
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Like the willow she stands alone, swaying.
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107400
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You sleep in equative lip biting slumber
hugging a pillow you think is someone else.
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I thought to tell him I do not love raspberries, but blueberries, but he did not attend to the things I loved.
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Both men sip their Cabernet Franc.
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When I came back from California the second time, in the summer of 1965, I was the first around our town to wear my hair long, influenced by the Beatles. And I bought a bunch of blue caps that everyone in our gang wore, with the number “69” sown on
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She sets the muffins aside, opens herself, nymph-like, mouth spread and gritty. She pulls the dirty edge of his gray t-shirt up so to show herself to him, spreads herself across the mattress like thin flesh oil over too much canvas....
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I should have created a first-date questionnaire heartaches ago.
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He stood with the bride of quietness / on the precipice of questions
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With a madman’s laugh, she realized her mistake and discarded it as irrelevant.
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The winner was some kid from Ohio or Oklahoma -- one of those states that begins with an "O" and ends with a yawn.
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The smell of Coppertone Suntan Lotion always brings back memories of the beach. I remember you rubbing it on my stomach and you kept moving lower and lower. I had on a bikini bottom (very daring) and you rubbed your finger all along the rim of it just a
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Things have happened.
It’s a given. What, are you crazy? Of course things have happened. It’s the world, for Christ’s sake. Things are happening. I am consistently missing most, if not all, of them.
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“All I want,” he was heard to say, “is a date with a really
good-looking woman before I go away.”
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I feel a strange loneliness for her...I think I will go to the beach, and forgive it for its sharp sand and lack of trees.
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It rises rigid and plumb from its heavy base, the severity of line yielding to grace only at the throat where it crests into a subtly constrictive pinch.
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She made them all watch ``Oceans Eleven'', even the baby...
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With a sigh she rubbed her face into wakefulness, and then sucked two fingers, thinking of melted cheese.
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[Lights up on CLAUDE. He's holding a letter, standing.]CLAUDE: Dear sir, We regret to inform you That your (that place with cream walls and dog hair…
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Drink tons of water they keep telling me...
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Renee said, "I have actually slept with a number of Captains of Industry and would rate them, overall, deficient in skills."
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I remember telling you that I listened to country music. You surprised me with a whole tape that you recorded of all my favorites and I didn’t know how you figured them out, except that you must have snuck up beside my bedroom window at night.
And
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I cannot find my way back to the bubbling navel of the universe because of Spongebob Squarepants.
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He reveled in the chase, giddy when just out of arm’s reach. When to catch him, that was the question.
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My third Rule of Success—and I may not have these in exactly the right order–is always get a pre-nup!
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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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So, how did they meet? After years and years of starvation and gruesomeness and lack of human contact because there were no humans left, only walking corpses, a woman gently lifted the sixty-pound dead man's penis with a cool washrag and wiped him clean. The dead…
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The orchid trembled on its long stem
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If, for just a crystal moment, you will submit to being a dove...
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Out in the world again, pretending to belong.
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