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“Last night the Scots invaded Sweden,” I wrote, “to retrieve the silver filched from the Irish the Norwegians had in their coffers when Sweden conquered. The Swedes offered the Nobel to a Scots writer to keep the peace."
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It's not me I'm worried about, he said.
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You took me to task about my insatiable need to recalibrate our purpose.
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I don’t remember the name of the boy in high school
or if I cried at his funeral
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proving little more/
than the player’s keyboard dexterity.
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“We don’t drop litter. Pick it up.”
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It was a lousy night to be lost.
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That Super Nova has a 300 horsepower 350 small-block engine under the hood. I know what kind of ride we're in for.
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When you prime tobacco the old way . . .
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The first task was ridiculously easy. You rigged up the ladder from the unlocked communal laundry room. I climbed up and squeezed through the open bathroom window. I was skinny enough then to still fit through the bars, head, shoulders, and all. I opened the…
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The little dog. The mean little dog. The mean little dog the girl you love loves. The mean little dog the girl you love loves is growling at you again.
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I did not go to Philadelphia.
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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?
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The pot was good. When Rose closed her eyes, telephones appeared. They were the only way to connect—maybe she would just dial random numbers and say, "Can you hear me? Do you know who I am?" She dialed the number from Craig's List, at the agreed time.…
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There are no city-chewed streets,/
only white and lilac blooming dogwood trees.
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We maxed out credit cards and bought luxury cars we couldn't afford, secure in management's proven algorithm. Forty dials per day means one sale per week.
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The husband was suspect, appearing to be in shock, as if he had never sorted groceries or done laundry.
"Is that enough bleach?" he asked the officers.
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Cinnamon and smoke
infuse the days that shorten,
chill, accelerate.
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Conceptio culpa
Nasci pena
Labor vita
Necesse mori
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I'm reading your remains.
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So then we had to worry about the Russian soldiers. When they heard we were Jewish, they said “How come the Germans didn’t kill all of you?”
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Alone on the platform, I waited for a train.
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Squirrels and wild mice fear her shadow
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It’s beautiful to look at and to hold/
though true musicians would be appalled/
by the black plastic
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The psychiatrist was a man who clearly meant to calm his patients, the students. You could tell by his sweater and his neatly combed, plumy hair and the wire-rim glasses he wore. But he was not good at his job. You could tell this by how bad he was at cal
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Determined to make this Thanksgiving more special than the last, she ponders long on how to create a chiduckey.
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