1607 6 4
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Sophie is a cat. I tell you this upfront so as not to get you all wound up about moral angst, Nazi's or a mother's love.
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—Was it true, what you wrote in that poem?
—Pretty true.
—What do you mean “pretty true”? Was it true or wasn’t it?
—It was as close as you get to truth in poems.
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I wondered if Mr. Slane even knew/
how many dogs he owned
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1374 7 6
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Where horses once were tethered grows their grass . . .
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1337 9 5
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Burren-grey, the sky through sky lights
is cigarette ash smashed across July.
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1389 10 5
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how alike, breakup & death
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1219 15 9
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How they all beat the small drum/
of the word within the world
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168 9 4
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dos equis ambar
sits cool and dark
by my side
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789 2 1
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I'll never forget the way you tasted that last morning that I ever saw you.The blurry eyed look on my face as I searched your bed for my tshirt, and you in a hurry because you were already late for work bending down onto the bed and grabbing my chin the…
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Do not spank the truth
Whatever else you do
You do not ever
Spank the truth
If you let the truth be spanked
You will be diminished
And it will never let you
Be finished, instead
When you are dead
You will dangle in the land
Between
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1070 9 5
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"I wanted to see cities whose names sounded like sad sighs...Oaxaca, Guanajuato, Reynosa, Camargo..."
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1355 8 6
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you hear the knell of kindness
long before its cathedral voices -- a recessional --
barters better times.
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1875 11 10
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1. Allowance
2. Tooth fairy
3. JFK coin savings bank in clear plastic beveled skyscraper tower
4. Ben Franklin iron coin bank
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735 5 5
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The phenomena of this water
formed the first definite link
in that vast chain of apparent miracles
with which I was destined
to be at length encircled.
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1040 6 3
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soap smells tangy, but/I wouldn’t eat it: scent and/nutrition diverge.
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1188 7 6
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Get comfortable with criticism
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When the malady struck and the world fell dark at noon, she and I groped the walls and found our front door. Outside, bewildered, we heard the whine of jets in free-fall, explosions in the imagined distance. And we heard a car — or was it a truck that veered…
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1290 21 11
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The lungs forsake their love of breath. The arms/
resist throwing off the small weight of sheets.
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1287 11 5
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If I felt like reading a book
then I would read a book
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1181 8 7
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There is a war, but is it not In my heart? There is a war, but You are not the reason. There is a War, but we're all doing what we can. There is a war, but it is not just Your fight. There is a war, but I Wished you still walked…
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986 2 2
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There it was
One abandoned high heel shoe on the sidewalk
Could have been
Some kind of robbery
Though
Maybe it was just
The beginning of the
Walk of shame
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1188 2 2
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From my place, down here amongst the earth, we have many names for you.
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1440 7 4
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"Merry Christmas, Willie."
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1171 11 9
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The commodore drives a 67 Caddy rag top
All fin and boatish power
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981 9 7
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Survival is often violent.
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1041 7 4
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NO ONE CAN BE A BASTARD FOREVER
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1859 6 5
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"When Roach # 7845 awoke this evening, she found herself transformed into Ann Coulter. "
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1287 4 3
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Philosophy: a muscular exercise of throat, jaw, tongue, and brain.
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