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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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It was the coward's way out, to commit suicide. And yet, one had to be brave to attempt it.
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He flipped through a book of poems Ani’d given me. Nothing fell out so he tore it in two. I said his mama must notta read to this one and one of the older cops laughed and he hit me.
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I discovered Ripple (by that fine winemaker Gallo) in a dusty “specials” bin at the back of a liquor store near skid row, off Maxwell Street, downtown Chicago. You may remember me bringing these bottles home with their screw-off caps. We drank tons
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I was good-looking, marketable and ambitious. And that never hurt anyone cracking it big ...
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Artie invited me to go with him to pick out a Halloween Pumpkin for the house. I had recently moved into a communal living situation and we were still getting to know each other. Artie was the kind of person who made a special occasion out of ordinary life. Why…
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The U.S. blasted into Iraq like gangbangers, baby! All that Shock and Awe shit... Zeep, excitement rekindled within him, hired three chippies, Foxy, Loxy, and Roxy, and partied! He managed between…
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The songs that she used to sing to him still dance in his head while he wrangles equations. The stars in the cosmos spell out her name.
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