1137 1 0
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"If you don't like it then leave!" Sally screamed.
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1607 2 1
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It was too young to be love.
We were 5,
a buzz-cut me,
and you,
plated with babyteeth
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1454 2 0
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Gateway Loves are lethal. They do not discriminate between bot or flesh, primary or clone.
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913 0 0
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We're all just meat and atoms who can no more sense into the great beyond than a horse can fly a plane.
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1592 8 1
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In late summer 2000 Dick Cheney held a secret strategy meeting in a hunting lodge deep in the hills of southeastern Wyoming. It was Cheney's own place, bought with the money he'd ripped from the trough with both hands through decades of what…
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846 3 1
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We bring words together and set them up on blind dates. Watch them build a history together, get married and fight together. Make offspring syllables cradled warm in cribs of punctuation. Phonemes squeezed into existence by two parenthesis. Words…
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1101 0 1
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It loomed -- unavoidable.
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2014 11 6
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Children should not be made to do things unless they want it.
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1442 25 10
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Tendering these stalks, making the pie, heralds me a holder of apron strings...
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1053 4 1
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Sharon called me “Wolfie” (very sweet!) and I distinctly heard her gasp, “Jesus!” when I entered her the first time on my dad’s ski boat, while you and Rick DeMille came swimming up behind us, yelling out my name: “Pharaoh … Pharaoh.” We
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“Pupilo Durcál!” She yelled. “You stupid pendejo!” He limped along without another glance. Rosa suddenly realized her dreams all week were really omens.
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1531 0 0
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“… and that concludes my presentation. I’ll be happy to answer any questions you might have.”
Meixu Liao smiled and turned her hands out, palms upwards. Americans typically saw this combination of facial expression and body language as conveyin
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Their love was doomed at the onset, yet they engaged in it anyway, heedless of the numerous error messages and critical runtime failures. Abort, Retry, Fail? They selected Retry over and over.
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1792 1 1
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Ikkyu liked coming over especially at dinner. I'm a great cook and even though he no longer needed to eat himself, the idea of a sumptuous meal and a nice bottle of wine appealed to him. We'd commune about the poetry of karma flowers, seafood, and women, he in his robes and…
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When I was growing up–I know that begs the question–if I wasn’t gigging frogs or shooting marbles I used to wile away my idle hours by hanging out at my dad’s women’s clothing store.
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Rory, she had her top off in the water and I couldn't stop staring at her breasts, which were like my breasts in that they looked like teardrops but her collarbone was more pronounced.
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1173 2 1
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I came to a field where, scattered around, were quite a few men digging holes
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When Jimmy – and Frank and John and all the rest – joined up, it all seemed a big lark. Little Mary – she can’t have been more than about five years old – was dead proud her Dad was going off to fight the Germans. I doubt she really knew who the
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...and 55 words to tell you about it.
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Caroline smiles before reaching out to touch a shapeless shadow dancing on the wall, closing her eyes as the bumps in the primer serve brail to oncoming dreams.
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1055 0 0
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It's a funny thing, watching a Snowman shiver
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1015 0 0
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Popular wisdom would have it that heroin addicts are some kind of cross between vampire menace and low-rent cartoon.
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1986 43 21
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Zach lifts his glass. “Look at us! We eat like kings. Kings!”
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807 0 0
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And this will be our testament
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holland's hope and hawaii skunk
god's one true gift to mankind
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He cut a hole in the sack
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Wherever you decide to grow
Please remember to ask the dirt
‘Am I still dust’
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Behind the bellicose façade lay a soft, compassionate soul. He sat within a swirl of rosy twilight hues, buoyed by the gently creeping tide. A dark wall approached and he mechanically spun and began stroking into the glassy canvas of light and ocean that lay between him…
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The Happy Bunny Family had a secret: They weren't very happy.Everyone in town knew it, but of course no one said anything. Mr. Happy Bunny would stroll through the center of town on his way to work and people would smile and nod and wish him a good day and he would return…
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The ride home after Basketball and a little beer; That's when the best poems happen. Poems pin-prick sharp Puncturing through dulled Senses while streetlamps pass Overhead. They find their way inside you But they don't stick. Poems left back somewhere On the…
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