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Threads of sadness in the hands, in the touch
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22603918
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Lined up like ghosts on the front lawn, the second-hand porcelain fixtures had embarrassed her.
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Oh what fun they had riding that bike! What adventures! They went everywhere, in town and out.
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In the 15 years that I've worked at my local public library, I've learned that we librarians do plenty of things for our patrons that aren't in our job descriptions. After a patron asked me to change her flat tire, and another wanted to check out our pencil sharpener,…
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27971714
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I'm reading your remains.
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18232718
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. . . there is nothing so selfish as sleep.
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15691715
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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?
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18252118
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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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218944
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When Charlie woke up he couldn’t find his inner Charlie.
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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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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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23162013
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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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Smoke from bodies aflame tongues the strung moon;
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23021211
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I was having festive sex flashbacks and wasn't thinking sharply.
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21752716
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"A prostitute of the Hotel Khadijah in Rahab fell in love with my father...."
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22232918
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The story of my life/
would put insomniacs to sleep.
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22973418
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But I do not dig graves, only cradles...
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24022018
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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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17322018
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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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17702318
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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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28971910
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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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1911168
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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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he makes his way back / to the ocean, back to the popcorn, back / to the pinball machines
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A flash in seven chapters.
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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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1963179
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"we are all headed to be forsaken by animal hearts a mountain of poor"
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23172012
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I'm Alice invading the garden,
looking for souls among cards
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