665 7 7
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She rubs her head into mine...
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1519 11 7
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"They called him a syllannibal: a person who eats his own words. The only words he ever ate, however, were the ones he had written."
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1045 8 8
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the brain plays impish tricks/
and entertains itself with avant garde/
home movies
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1138 7 4
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Each memory of Fall reminds me of the harvest; Surely this is not a thought to turn the thought of dying. Black the turning point, there is a glint at the tip of the wing: Perhaps it rises from its cinders as I wish when I was waning, …
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817 14 7
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Through the Walmart parking lot
they came...
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549 11 8
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aquatic, free-swimming or earth-bound
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1118 9 7
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Just drank / The last of the eggnog
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1276 9 8
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... black holes suck in matter and supernovas explode.
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1159 10 7
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1449 15 7
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A retired feminist literary agent named Jackie and her boyfriend, Jock, were on board. Jock was kind as one might expect of a man traveling with a feminist, and Jackie was happy yet stern. She mentored me one day over lunch.
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1279 9 8
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“It’s lost. Lost and gone. Forever. My love for you. I’m sorry.”
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117 11 8
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425 14 7
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The first years of her life she had been owned by a bear hunter and trained to hunt bear, a terrible turn of luck for her.
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1576 11 7
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She was the blonde one and the dark-haired one and the one with curly hair and the one with straight hair, the one in the long scarf and even the boy with the camera.
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911 15 7
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...he had that same grin, better than a racy French picture.
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984 8 8
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PATHOLOGY How awful it is to dissect a marriage! It lays naked on the therapist's steely table. He makes his first incision into the bloated stomach of our malnourished union. He polishes his glasses and peers, cuts the thin taut skin of our…
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1139 14 8
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His wife had just come from the gynecologist and was toying with her French fries.
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1094 10 7
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We are young
That’s all we’ve got
We take drugs
We smoke pot
You got mugged
And I got shot
We are young
That’s all we’ve got
I want you to love me like it’s midnight
Midnight, midnight
Yeah, your mama wants you home
But she knows
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973 13 7
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We have been well and truly fucked with ideological batons
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1022 11 7
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You are a warm winter
Despite the presence of snow
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149 11 7
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I always hated God for the Holocaust,
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914 7 8
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Number the herd. Number/
the baskets after harvest./
Note the reappearance of the moon/
after its short absence.
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1122 8 8
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I could hide away in this tower
But I am Rapunzel
And I will let down my hair
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1134 16 8
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Their specialty is the roasted Australian hare, long ears intact, arranged on a bed of sassafras.
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1441 8 8
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Lucky bastard, he gets Glamour Puss and I get lady wrestler who's giving off the vibe she'll bludgeon me to death with her Bible if I make one false move.
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1842 9 6
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Frank says if I eat the whole bowl of live crickets he’ll give me five dollars and his grandfather’s silver bullet from the war.
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825 10 8
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1362 8 8
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He's not something you'll want, waiting for you inside your living room's ear. Go and see your family. Breathe the broad daylight whenever you can. I got lost in some free form dog caves. That's all. That's no path to aspire to …
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118 10 7
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We should put him out of his misery.
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1184 10 6
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She was washing the dishes in the sink, (you're not going to start with a pronoun, are you? Give her a name, for God's sake!) Kate was washing dishes in the sink, (where the hell else is she going to wash dishes? In a creek?) Kate was washing dishes (was…
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