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It lies in rusting riot
of shadowed days.
Flying high its emblem wings,
forever stalled.
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Blast! crashed through
Shelter of car
Violence! of blow!
On window glass
It winced! on
Four wheels
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i was in the fields, i was moss, was sticking my head in the columbine
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I’m in high leather boots; I’m talking many dead cows here and I respect that
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I stare, out a dirty window, / into the sanitary blackness.
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“3.9 million dollars,” she whispered to the window.
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Warren Jeffries had called me on the phone the night before and said, “Listen to this,” as he held the receiver out his bedroom window at the noise coming from the riot on campus. They were spraying gas over People’s Park, trying to get them to disp
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After all, if she could get through World War II with no more than a couple of letters and numbers on her arm, she could, sure as hell, get through this.
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I told him he was just paying for his sins. He gave me a look. "Why me?" he asked.
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“Just curious,” Sean says, “but what’s up with the old Pinto out front?”
She looks at him. “It’s my boyfriend’s.” Her green eyes are flat: What business of yours?
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you'd do him more of a favor to kill him, than place upon him the burden of such an abrupt change in travel plans.
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[continued from part one...]After sweeps, my schoolwork started to slip. I had trouble paying attention in class, and my workbooks and tests came back from the teacher marked in ketchup red ink. I had always been a good student, and this academic…
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Eli the dog cocks his head like a pistol;
half cock, full cock.
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When I got word from Mary Jo, she warned me that Mitchell Parkman was out looking for me with a butcher knife. I knew immediately what I had to do. I packed up my things and sold the Pepsi van and moved up to a room on Regent Street in Berkeley, all the w
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not enough of us / destroy / what we create
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I had the distinct feeling she was telepathic. As that thought crossed my mind, she smiled broadly and returned my quizzical stare. It caught me off guard, wasn't what I expected.
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She thrust her proboscis through seven layers of dermis and began to suck, filling her belly with his Welbutrin and Xanax infused blood.
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There were a lot of advantages to having shoelaces.
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money ain't nothin next to lovin.
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But not once did we mention heaven. The next day we bought another one.
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So young. So innocent. How do you tell a little one that her mother is dying? The father seemed to be bathing in a sea of hopelessness lately.
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I am one one millionth of a ratings point. A little flash of electronic blue against the wall of an otherwise unlit upstairs room at night. Walk by on the sidewalk feeling lonely, then see that harsh spark of indigo spring from the dark window above and
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Notice: No Trespassing. Warning: Falling Rock. Caution: Dangerous Curve. Declaration: I Love You.
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“You do understand my skepticism Mr. Randolph? This is your 7th appointment this month, you do realize that don’t you? This being the 3rd time you have thought that you might have cancer.”
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I laugh too loud cause the world looks good that way and for a minute we both make funny sounds just to exercise our vocal cords and see how close we can come to the line without crossing.
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"Here's the bad news: you have to wear a patch over your eye for the next six weeks."
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Your son is six feet tall in the sixth grade. By his sophomore year of high school, he outweighs you by a hundred pounds. He's been offered four football scholarships and one for a sport he's never played. Every morning his mother, your ex ex-wife, makes his breakfast of a…
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As I gripped the wheel and stared at the expanse above my head, my compass spun wildly. Something wasn't quite right
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and we got the apartment, which was on a street that backed up on an alley situated, as it turned out, right across the alley from the very first Hari Krishna house, where they would wake up at four every morning and begin their maddening chanting: Hari K
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