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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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"I wanted to see cities whose names sounded like sad sighs...Oaxaca, Guanajuato, Reynosa, Camargo..."
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you hear the knell of kindness
long before its cathedral voices -- a recessional --
barters better times.
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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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765 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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soap smells tangy, but/I wouldn’t eat it: scent and/nutrition diverge.
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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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The lungs forsake their love of breath. The arms/
resist throwing off the small weight of sheets.
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1341 11 5
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If I felt like reading a book
then I would read a book
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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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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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From my place, down here amongst the earth, we have many names for you.
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"Merry Christmas, Willie."
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The commodore drives a 67 Caddy rag top
All fin and boatish power
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Survival is often violent.
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1086 7 4
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NO ONE CAN BE A BASTARD FOREVER
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1913 6 5
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"When Roach # 7845 awoke this evening, she found herself transformed into Ann Coulter. "
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1304 4 3
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Philosophy: a muscular exercise of throat, jaw, tongue, and brain.
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889 2 2
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The man and the woman ate dinner together as they did most nights. It had become a habit over the years, back when they had children. Their lives were busy yet they always found time for one…
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and like the want
of weather, we walk away or come close
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The suspended heart became an oracle of sorts. Hung from a string, immersed in the kind of glass container in which tulips grow, it was located between Bath and Body Works and Kleinfelter's Jewelers at the north entrance of the mall. Someone had lost it,
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1570 22 17
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Sometimes cats had to die or dogs
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The world has long since been bootlegged by madmen. The new invisible con men are the same as the old visible con men, hiding and lying behind their walls of lingering death. There's a weapon wielding demon hell bent on an insane vengeance crawling around…
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The bar was dark and a little dirty, and that suited Splinker's mood just fine.
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Marcia
Get a load of
This
I got two pictures
Of food
Of food
Marcia
You're gonna
Love it
Look at this
I got one
Of just the salt and
Pepper shaker
God
You're gonna
Love this
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When you need a vacation...from everything.
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