2477 17 14
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I'm reading your remains.
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1704 27 18
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. . . there is nothing so selfish as sleep.
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1466 17 15
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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?
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1675 21 18
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When I died, she said, she was going to have me cremated and put my ashes in the cats’ litter box.
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2094 4 4
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When Charlie woke up he couldn’t find his inner Charlie.
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1951 21 18
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One day a woman, one of several translators at Ellis Island, asks him why he has changed a passenger’s name from Checzowicz to something else.
“The name was too long,” he says. “Ten letters.”
She replies, “But you didn’t change O’Shaughnessy, and it has
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2225 37 18
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list:
almond message oil
almond sunset tea
dark chocolate 80%
dry rhubarb soda
lavender bath oil
musk candles
red light bulb
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2154 20 13
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"For God's sake," my mother said. "There could be anthrax in the candy."
My mother worried about me going out on Halloween.
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4047 23 18
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Smoke from bodies aflame tongues the strung moon;
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1985 12 11
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I was having festive sex flashbacks and wasn't thinking sharply.
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2090 27 16
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"A prostitute of the Hotel Khadijah in Rahab fell in love with my father...."
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2071 29 18
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The story of my life/
would put insomniacs to sleep.
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2178 34 18
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But I do not dig graves, only cradles...
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2086 20 18
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They are all sleeping, but I know better. I will keep watch and if he comes tonight I will be alert and ready. When he arrives he'll see the slack mouths, the graceless sprawls, hear the grunts, snorts and snores of the other women and then he'll sense me. My eyes will…
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1639 20 18
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1655 19 18
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We were in the car more than anywhere else. A few days driving, then a few days to get back home.
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1681 23 18
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in my youth I was enamored of the moon—that is to say, lunacyI applauded the bizarre in natureI appropriated the gratuitous from dreamsI drank brashness and frenzy from bookswhat mad things I did!(throwing a bucket of water on the naked couple in the bed)what…
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2641 19 10
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The promise of free food and drink was too much to pass up since I hadn't played a gig in months and was living on peanut butter and celery. When Kelly called I was too hungry and thirsty for drink to turn him down.
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1832 16 8
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He disliked intrusion and very specifically innocuous intrusion, nice guys, one might say, who tried to be near him to learn something from him or who admired him but who, as in that passage, came merely to disturb his work.
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1940 22 18
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he makes his way back / to the ocean, back to the popcorn, back / to the pinball machines
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1764 19 17
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A flash in seven chapters.
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2413 18 18
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and all the beautiful girls are in the river
And they went in dirty
But they came out clean
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1835 17 9
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"we are all headed to be forsaken by animal hearts a mountain of poor"
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2218 20 12
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I'm Alice invading the garden,
looking for souls among cards
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2240 37 14
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I should have created a first-date questionnaire heartaches ago.
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2714 29 13
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My round belly is deflating. I disappear a little more by the day. It's been weeks. Soon, I may not even be here.
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1977 23 15
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I blame it all on evil humors. Something's leaking.
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1751 11 9
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1639 22 17
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The world is full of dead dogs
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740 44 15
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It all started when he bought my leopard nightie.
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