3081 18 16
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How freeing to writhe under someone with more muscles than fat, who could keep it up longer than minute, who afterwards stroked my hair and if he noticed the fine silver strands by my ears didn’t mention them. I forget his name...
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1878 13 15
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Somewhere a banjo, somewhere a hound.
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1961 21 17
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For my Dad
Happy Father's Day!
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4969 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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1864 22 17
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Sometimes cats had to die or dogs
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1867 22 18
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The end will film itself/
in charred, eviscerated bodies
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2660 15 14
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I first met death in an alley.
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1821 25 17
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2064 17 14
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When you move to the music of a woman
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2428 15 16
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I forget you. Upfront: that’s how this ends.
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2475 23 13
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2163 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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2710 29 14
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2139 17 17
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The Cheese Maker's Son;
The Pretenders;
Train Whistles in the Wintertime
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2975 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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4502 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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1115 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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1889 21 17
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After breakfast, he dresses and heads / for the blackjack tables.
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2055 19 18
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He was a tenth grade / messiah, famous for acts of attrition.
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1964 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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1747 22 16
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They come to mind/
like ice flowers/
on the small panes
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2124 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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2890 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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2331 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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2569 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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1966 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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4615 2 2
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Foxes haunted her dreams. Islands full of foxes, truckloads of vixen.
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2096 20 12
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I drove to you in April / and you loved me all through Illinois
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2102 25 17
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Whole frogs are/
too difficult.
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1792 22 17
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While you can,/
find the beautiful
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