1764 13 15
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Somewhere a banjo, somewhere a hound.
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1863 21 17
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For my Dad
Happy Father's Day!
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4785 3 2
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If you work in a library, you work with book carts, so naturally you give them nicknames. You could call your faithful book cart Bumpy, Squeaky, Rusty or Tipsy. But surely you can do better than that! Here's…
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1767 22 17
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Sometimes cats had to die or dogs
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1749 22 18
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The end will film itself/
in charred, eviscerated bodies
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2525 15 14
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I first met death in an alley.
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1697 25 17
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1953 17 14
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When you move to the music of a woman
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2313 15 16
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I forget you. Upfront: that’s how this ends.
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2371 23 13
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2042 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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2597 29 14
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2011 17 17
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The Cheese Maker's Son;
The Pretenders;
Train Whistles in the Wintertime
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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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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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991 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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1785 21 17
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After breakfast, he dresses and heads / for the blackjack tables.
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1948 19 18
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He was a tenth grade / messiah, famous for acts of attrition.
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1878 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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1651 22 16
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They come to mind/
like ice flowers/
on the small panes
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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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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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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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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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1852 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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Foxes haunted her dreams. Islands full of foxes, truckloads of vixen.
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1955 20 12
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I drove to you in April / and you loved me all through Illinois
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1993 25 17
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Whole frogs are/
too difficult.
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1696 22 17
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While you can,/
find the beautiful
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2551 20 13
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I heard today about your friend
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