3061 14 12
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...the job was easy, just pour and deliver, pour and deliver.
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864 29 18
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It was in the last expulsion/explosion (theories differ) that we became OneWith. Tsunami. Seism. Zud. All matter cast out outcast came back like a gangster on crack. What did it think it was? Who do we think we are? It thinks we think it thinks…
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2084 23 17
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I watch my mother
No longer beautiful or charming
Her left arm shaking
Her mind a gone thing no longer doing her wrong
Wandering away from me in the mall
To kiss the hands of strangers...
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368 27 18
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Sleep shall take you where plutonium
Stars the drinking pools with light.
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1546 27 19
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1749 27 19
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“There’s an ill energy that emanates
from your precise heart that I find attractive”
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1445 21 16
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A favorite place doesn't always offer comfort.
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1638 20 18
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6497 21 14
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Nostradamus died of gout on a Friday evening. He would be the first person in history to die of complications relating to gout. Spiked rods of crystallized uric acid pushed their way through his synovial fluid just as he composed a quatrain about the end
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1862 33 17
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Fabio has a soul of passion. A beautiful soul of passion. His passionate soul was so beautiful the ancient stars shone upon him and made him look like ghosts at night.
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1536 23 19
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Mack’s mind held a chandelier.
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1481 21 19
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The younger woman asked Scott if he loved Jesus.
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1613 27 18
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1. The ghost that photographs my wife and me has a peculiar sense of lighting. In this one, we are sitting at the kitchen table of our old apartment. The table is made of glass. There is nothing on the table except our elbows. She has lowered her head between her…
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1910 34 14
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I loved my Dad. He was executed in 1967. He was guilty.
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2513 35 18
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the dream went by this way/
i woke and held a cigarette/
the hudson wore winter white
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259 25 16
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"What, you only like my funny stories?"
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1444 29 16
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a world of probability against plague
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1862 20 17
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My glasses fog up every time I go to collect her from the pool. I'll never get used to glasses. When my sight got suddenly worse the day she was born, I didn't tell anyone. As she turned from baby to child, my love for her grew, and my world got smaller,
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1299 19 13
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2257 22 16
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The movies he liked best were the ones in which white people played Asian leads. Since his girlfriend had left, that Barry was adopted had seemed to become more of a fact.
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1952 26 17
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Everybody in Amsterdam spoke English, and unlike the French, they didn't pretend that they didn't.
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2128 29 17
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Didn't Max Perkins die, like they said?
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1565 9 11
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I answered with my usual economy of words. If someone wants more, they must ask, and he did.
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1422 38 18
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2004 35 18
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She doesn’t notice the small group of women in saris, emerald and garnet, sapphire and citrine, the cloth covered with mirrors glinting in the light. Or how they link plump brown arms, frightened or delighted by the attention, huddled close, bird-like ch
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1689 23 18
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Five girls wobble into the train car. Their blistered feet protrude from the bedazzled straps of their sandals. Conductor: “Girls in the back with the open containers, you can't have those on the train.” A heavy-set girl in a belted yellow mini-dress…
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226 33 17
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The train sits in the main station and you see a man foist himself into a seat next to a young woman in jeans, stabbing his lit cigarette close to her face, "Don't you ever pretend you don't know me again, you hear?"She freezes. Only her eyes frantically dart, lock onto…
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2422 39 16
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1676 30 17
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It was a surprise they put me in a dormitory, not a cell,
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1668 21 14
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