1856 11 9
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An old man, a widower; living alone, defenseless. It was a given.
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1605 20 16
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It was Gatlinburg in mid July
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1645 28 22
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The fluffed-up clouds, darkish in spots,/
are moving fast, opposite the wind/
where I stand and look. Equations//
could describe the multiplicities
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388 31 20
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During the liberation, a Jew in the Russian army, asked him who had been the cruelest. My father gave them the name of the farmer who had murdered his father, and was later told the farmer's son was sent to the front and killed.
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1768 15 16
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When Carlotta left me, I cried / into my soup. I shriveled into / harsh mathematics.
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1870 29 21
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Why was it so difficult to move / toward anything?
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1701 23 21
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The night was a lilac bowl of darkness
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1873 30 21
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She slouched on one hip, scribbled on the order pad. “How do you like your eggs?”
“I like them very much.”
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1578 28 22
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I felt/
no need to show what I had made/
to anybody else.
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1670 37 20
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Make cartography with your mouth...
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2433 16 15
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A man and his wife are walking through a museum when the man sees a shield on the wall. Look at that! he says. Isn’t that remarkable?
The two of them walk a little closer.
What’s so remarkable about it? says his wife.
Well, the workmanship! s
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1718 31 19
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the mighty mountains sighed, and the wide seas heaved
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1842 20 22
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On the way over, on the ship, I met a girl from Cleveland.
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1205 30 20
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We are moments away from the end, and it feels like it.
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1997 12 12
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tonight's sky is full:/each lunatic to his moon/sings separate songs.
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2043 33 19
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7
My son has toxic epidermal necrolysis and the nurses who come in from the burn unit, 7 of them, the number 7 don’t you see the number 7 has meaning for numbers have meaning for everything has meaning and I sat in that sacred space in the ICU whe
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1508 18 15
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2037 47 20
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She liked this young woman. They’d met two weeks earlier, when the young woman had been walking her pet chicken on a pink ribbon leash.
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2492 19 7
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the definition of beauty is easy
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1715 25 21
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I found the knife in a fishing box in the closet. The box was made out of varnished wood. My father’s father had made it.
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1536 43 14
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Tuesdays she worked afternoons at the bookstore, and he’d secretly go, buy a large order, sit in a corner with a newspaper. Fries covered in vinegar, veins of ketchup.
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2367 23 16
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Sue Ellen walked on. “You were thinking about me -- I saw you.”
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2424 28 20
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I was always too political, you said, with my Malcolm X posters and my DC rallies...
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1186 37 23
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in a puddle of water, the butterfly rests on a stone
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2963 23 9
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The man is wiry and jumpy. There is a tattoo on his upper arm of Charles Manson. He jumps and jumps. He looks like a man on a pogo stick. He will not stop jumping.
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1774 43 21
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Zach lifts his glass. “Look at us! We eat like kings. Kings!”
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1812 7 5
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1) Tragicomedy set to drama is what the American public fears and abhors. But it's reality, and reality can be subject to the rifling burden of…
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2479 25 20
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1256 45 20
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This is a lady who never got a break.
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2051 32 21
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I went with Dale Stack to drown a cat on a fading summer afternoon.
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