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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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"we are all headed to be forsaken by animal hearts a mountain of poor"
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24292012
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I'm Alice invading the garden,
looking for souls among cards
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24593714
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I should have created a first-date questionnaire heartaches ago.
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30892913
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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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4582017
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Betty shakes herself out of her reverie and sprinkles a bit more salt on Frank's meatloaf. Over the last few weeks, usually when she's in the kitchen, her mind wanders to Florida. Betty loves Florida, loves the retirement community where her sister Esther lives.She pours…
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I blame it all on evil humors. Something's leaking.
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The world is full of dead dogs
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It all started when he bought my leopard nightie.
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19492013
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There’s / no crying in poetry!” says Coach / Bukowski
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18732517
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The scent of fresh cut grass./
The idiot sense of accomplishment/
mowing the lawn can bring.
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17802118
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After the funeral there was a luncheon in the church basement.
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“Spare change?” he asked the couple heading into the cineplex. They glanced at his brother, saw something was wrong with him, then at him, noting his dirty and disheveled state. They passed without a word, not even a head-shake.
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13801817
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The courts had scheduled the date long ago but the time, an hour always left to the warden, had yet to be decided.
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He would lean on his window sill in the evening and watch the whores. They wore gaudy clothes and too much makeup.
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Her addiction started with dry roasted nuts, and quickly jumped to peanuts. At her worst, she was consuming a large glass jar of peanuts daily. She loved while hating their salty taste and greasy feel, the repetition of tossing them into her mouth. …
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19371917
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It felt like I was somewhere I wasn’t supposed to be, like I’d walked into a house that looked like mine, but belonged to someone else.
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19862116
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Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back.
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19142618
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Watching water fall in the longest waterfall/
becomes immediately tedious
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19201817
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One day my wife got so mad at me she raked her fingernails down my face.
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His face was cold and hard as marble. Rudy’s angular features shuddered and twitched in the darkness.
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19372315
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“Why, you tell a story,” one young fellow said. The expression on his face said “How gauche, how passé!”
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I arranged all my books before you came, /
so that it appears I read some more than others.
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The effort involved in making
my chocolate chip cookies,
do you know? They're not
easy. No. Not easy.
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245599
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There were trees where I lived
and clean pavement
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I am long of tooth, too, and when I go, maybe a box with my ashes inside will join the boxes containing the cats’ remains.
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