2444 10 7
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The weight of my heart dragged me in dangerous directions.
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1590 3 2
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They could have heard a pin drop in the car for the rest of the ride to her house, where she looked at him one last time and found nothing admirable, nothing memorable about him.
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1292 1 1
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A mundane endeavor depicted as a quest. Try it, you'll like it!
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The Trinity boys don’t blame me at all. They know I am not stupid about the world. I am a robust girl. Nevertheless, like everyone else I have limits. I am a clock that winds down.
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1245 4 0
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I'm an artist, baby. We make our own rules.
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1922 0 0
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Oryn woke up in her desk. Sweat trickled from her forehead. Staring at her notepad, with her latest calculation, she forgot to go home. Her thoughts of Alysia calmed for now, but still lingered from her dreams.
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How to Boil Water
How to Cook an Egg
How to Eat
How to Think
How to Love
How to Die
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1400 4 3
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He sits, a large man with a walrus mustache, pondering a gold telegraph key.
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1155 3 1
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I see you’re wearing your tablecloth top again
your tablecloth dress to impress me
and distress me with all your tablecloth positions
for your luncheons on the grass
with all your famous friends
who found you on your ass
Yes we can
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I blame it all on evil humors. Something's leaking.
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1398 4 1
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Joe Don followed the route taken by an increasing number of Texas teenage jocks whose football glory days are prematurely cut short and joined his high school's Cowboy Poet Squad.
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1539 5 3
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The Black Thing spread over the room, eating away his mother's face as well as the doctors and nurses who dashed in a frenzy around him until they too were swallowed in the black singing cloud.
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1108 3 0
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From the earth it erupts
Growing longer, stronger, as the sun rises and sets
Days and nights pass, bringing the wind, the rain, the moon, the stars
A place of shelter it becomes
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This poem first appeared in “Walt’s Corner” of The Long Islander, founded by Walt Whitman in 1838.
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I would like to invite the public to an open-air,
environmental art piece called Hot Weather.
The exhibition will take place this summer. It will
not begin until the temperature reaches 90 degrees.
This demonstration is available free of charge
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Will wondered if Doobie was afraid that it might be nothing but the abyss waiting on the other side, but he promised Doobie he’d let him pass on if it was finally his time.
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1777 8 3
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“Who says?” she purred in reply
“They all do” he countered smiling , chewing on an ice cube
“All of them, huh?”
She leaned forward, raising a wicked left eyebrow and whispered,
“And just who are they, anyway?”
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i miss you/
at times unbearably/
a dull ache that won’t quit
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"She gnawed her arm off in the morning, before he woke...."
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1878 3 1
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“Can't you tell when I get lonely?”, she asks. “No”, I say. It gets awkward because she wants me to know when she gets lonely. I don't give her the attention she wants without realizing it. She moves away and stares at me for…
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1863 10 5
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The waters rose / on the earth
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1304 8 4
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A man bows his head
and crosses his chest
before crossing the street
and the rain keeps falling
on his bare blue shirt
and on top of his head
The taxis will not stop
The light’s still red
as the man waits
for the sign of the hands
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1461 6 3
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I love going fast. The last bank I robbed didn't know what hit them.
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“White,” he says. -- “Black,” I answer.
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Let me tell you a story, child, of how your father became your father...
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1513 5 3
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“Me try anything,” he says, then laughs a little. “You’re fucked.”
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1042 5 1
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When Veronica Lake died today of hepatitis, / he didn't blink an eye
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1535 10 2
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I had no portent this would occur, /
Ne'er did I see this happening, /
Not days before, nor those coming;
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638 2 0
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An American Indian (in a suit) at
the museum reception, eating pelican wing
which looked like enlarged sections of
older pulpy (pink) grapefruit
When asked why he was eating this,
he said that eating pelican wing gave you
the ability to fa
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