1686 11 7
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He was her summer fling, the first cock to crow when the sun rose over her tequila smile.
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1261 14 8
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1464 17 7
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Through its branches we saw a couple. Teenagers, narrow and pale, two young birch trees, their roots twisted, submerged in the water.
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1204 9 8
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6. to register for the draft
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Eat the Body/
Drink the Blood/
Perfect the sacrifice,
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1134 7 7
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Rocky, Arne’s elderly cat, was perturbed by invisible phantoms that provoked him to leap up on his hind legs, batting his front paws at the air like Don Quixote attacking windmills.
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607 16 7
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Unseen, he slides through cracks, unbound, liquid fear of mothers.
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1221 9 8
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It turned out Eel’s brain corrects for imbalance, and he can only feel danger for a moment or two.
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1092 11 8
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But God could tell that Adam was still not/
right with His world, alone as he was. Alone/
is fine for a Maker of Worlds but facsimiles/
are so much less than the Original.
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714 9 8
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I came suddenly awake and the rain was beating a furious rhythm on the rooftops, like a thousand shaken tambourines, like a thousand angry mojaves.
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1607 14 5
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I'm the joker of the pack in our office, although I think a lot of my humour is too subtle for my colleagues
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678 15 5
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The trio stuffed their grilling equipment in a battered van and left for Dixieland Speedway at 4:30 am.
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1654 10 7
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He shows me how lift the windshield wipers up, clean under them, put them down and I follow him around, watch him slap the sham over the van, pull it away, slap again. I do the same, stop every few minutes like Daddy does, hold it out, twist, wring the sh
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1855 13 7
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It’s not every day that a girl like me gets greeted with a hairy beast that orgles and spits when excited. Didn’t help none that it only had one eye. Poor little ole bugger.
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1370 14 6
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"Are you all right?" I ask. He blinks. He sits up. I help him stand. He looks sorrowfully at his coffee cup, which is on the floor.
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1220 9 8
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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"
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1222 9 8
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It’s strange, what will become of me
What my life will be like
Since the animal in me
Is beginning to show on my back
Oh no, no, no
Women will never put up with this
I was afraid this would happen
They’ll think I’m only half a man
I’
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700 13 5
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The year begins well here
with much needed rain
and tee-shirt temperatures.
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933 8 7
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The rat had been informed, assured, cajoled in order to gain his assent—duly lied to, in other words, by the researchers with not one tear of remorse, with no smudge or smear of conscience . . .
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1573 15 7
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My mind has started to finish thoughts at 77 Words. These are just a few.
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1357 9 7
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It doesn't have to be force grown betweenus. We entwine naturally. It's agood feeling to have a friend who at oncedoesn't require a hothouse ceiling laidbetween each invisible touch. There's justwind. There's just rain. There's just sun. There's just you.There's just…
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933 9 8
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I took Annie to the zoo, and the tigers got out. The little tigers, that is. Cubs.
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1385 8 8
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If I saw a little old man out there, a fellow with a hunched up back, I shouldn't be afraid.
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1327 8 7
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1022 11 8
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how much is downed/
to counteract the down/
with deeper down.
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It’s always daylight there
My brother comes running down the sidewalk
holding out his arms and calling my name
He’s wearing suspenders. He’s gotten thinner
in heaven
He embraces me warmly
wanting us to be friends
I give up trying to re
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716 11 7
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She who is not a widow had once listened to the river repeat its story.
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707 8 6
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You know I'm living in the past...
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The "Many Worlds" theory, applied.
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1521 9 7
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I am the marigold wheel no one can understand, the menace your grandfather warned you about. Yes, yes, that last phrase was overkill...
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