2757 15 14
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I first met death in an alley.
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1938 25 17
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2156 17 14
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When you move to the music of a woman
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2534 15 16
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I forget you. Upfront: that’s how this ends.
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2677 23 13
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2291 24 16
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The planet will be fine without us as it was/
when the Permian extinction made the goo/
that made the Rockefellers wealthy.
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2806 29 14
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3094 14 9
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‘Do you know that tables aren’t actually solid’ he said suddenly. ‘I mean there’s loads of space in the molecules that make up wood or whatever. The only reason we can’t push through them is because of the force.’
Nearby the Android called up his light
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4613 20 17
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The fallout came tangled with snow. We thought the sea would protect us. But it came from New Mexico greasy with Plumbbob’s vaporized pigs.
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1207 18 16
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My job was take the falls, act the dope, finish at the wrong end of the slap stick for the blow off. I was Auguste, the fool; I drove the clown car.
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1980 21 17
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After breakfast, he dresses and heads / for the blackjack tables.
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2138 19 18
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He was a tenth grade / messiah, famous for acts of attrition.
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2055 13 12
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He introduced me to key lime pie, and for this alone I would have loved him forever. It was an innocent time for me, and I was easy to please.
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1817 22 16
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They come to mind/
like ice flowers/
on the small panes
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2217 23 17
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Lying in the dewy grass in corpse pose, the stars of heaven above him, it was hard not to let worries take over his breath...
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3033 32 10
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At the bar, she told me her name was Natasha, but she doesn’t look like one. She’s too thin and flighty for one thing. And all Natashas have a Russian accent and talk of the Motherland as if it were never cold and before it turned to borderlines and j
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2453 31 16
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Everyone is botching everything, even the rescue team. They can't get to me. I am surrounded by people who don't know a fatal wound when they see one. I am so determined to live that I become bossy.
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2698 26 16
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I thought to tell him I do not love raspberries, but blueberries, but he did not attend to the things I loved.
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2089 23 16
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They will take you, naked,
and put their tongues and fingers
into intimate, erogenous openings
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4731 2 2
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Foxes haunted her dreams. Islands full of foxes, truckloads of vixen.
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2220 20 12
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I drove to you in April / and you loved me all through Illinois
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2191 25 17
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Whole frogs are/
too difficult.
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1894 22 17
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While you can,/
find the beautiful
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2816 20 13
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I heard today about your friend
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2098 21 13
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My father failed in business in the 1950's when Dutch Elm Disease killed the elm trees in our Kansas town. He owned a fabric store on a brick street lined on both sides by elms, the doomed trees that transformed every Midwestern town into a magical kingdom and sidewalks and…
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2321 21 16
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Highway 45N cost me four dogs when I was growing up. Actually, having our backyard abut the highway was the real problem. It got to be where I was afraid to get too attached. We lost Nicky,…
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2165 20 16
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Just bring me his head, that cerebral kiln of hot, ruddy verbiage and cadence.
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2299 14 14
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No one means to go that way, on an errand to the mall....
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2010 29 15
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Even solid seeming concrete creeps/
in time to form the faint smile of deflection./
A marble rolls along the catenary grin.
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