241 45 14
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1573 19 17
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Jake remembers that Amy told him once that she thought that somehow he would always be a part of her life. That was before she went to Spain and married an American bull fighter.
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2002 41 12
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Within seconds, I strip her free of all that she wears. Her toes are polished the color of plump pink tulips.
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1770 9 7
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Should have washed our hands, we thought after, licking sugar-spit and dirt.
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2311 22 15
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Dear End of the World. We're having a party. Stop by if you're in the neighborhood.
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1569 20 18
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or the voice that wants/
to be inscribed/
forgets the sounds
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2080 32 16
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you had to actually cross a damn street, vacate your brain, and say, "you two hellions are going to combust from all this torrid public defilement."
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1552 24 16
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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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2111 25 14
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I haven’t made the headlines yet. Maybe I never will. In a city like this, it probably takes more than this to get the helicopters in the air.
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359 18 16
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1936 17 14
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The first time I see her, she is slouched in a tire swing, pushing off with one foot and dragging the other beneath a dying pecan tree that probably hasn't made a nut in 20 years.
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2626 13 8
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1. It uncurls in your hand like an autumn leaf but fails to recall your happiness. 2. A triangle is the sum of its angles a priori. 3. Leaning on the lens of psychotropics leaves you with restless legs and akithisia. 4. Body…
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1136 29 13
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With such demeaning precarity, I can’t read/
anything more than a thousand words
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1520 16 13
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no one likes a bitchy cowboyhike up yer britchespull yer brim down'nshut up and ridestop making petsout of peevesand idolsout of gossipinsteadmake a hobbyout of yer horseand fer godsakesseason that saddle
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2188 11 9
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So, as the lines on my face grow more pronounced, the lines on my finger prints are fading away?
All I can say is that it's a damn shame it's not the other way around.
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2129 17 17
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Andreas Cappelanus taught that the word / “love” comes from the word meaning / “to fish.”
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2497 25 14
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The monarchs that migrate to Mexico and California in the autumn every year live for only a month.
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2927 37 11
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They are watching a movie about a man who cheats on his wife, whom he loves, and is so disconsolate that his wife eventually loses all patience and leaves him. They are at the point in the film where the man considers his many blunders as he walks…
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1530 19 16
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My wife thinks I should be committed.
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1611 39 14
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Where seldom is heard
an encouraging word
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1564 17 15
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Before the days of “customer experience,” Eddie figured out whatever information he could about his clients. He asked them for business cards, recorded their phone numbers from the reservation book, snapped photos of them in his mind…
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2079 22 16
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and say did you know it was written just for you? But I will. No one will walk up to you on the busy street one day and say did you know he loved you this much? But I'm telling you now. What good would a pyramid be or a hanging garden or a starry…
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1775 22 16
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My mother used to say she'll be just like you and you‘ll deserve it. I was a Punk Rocker. A rebel. Emily worries about things like grades and sports. She's on the soccer team. I got stoned under the bleachers. Emily, is a good kid. …
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1625 25 14
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Did we get Jihadi John?/
And the highway to Mosul?//
What’s the score?
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1383 27 14
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will we become artifacts?
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1612 6 6
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The book mind, just like its namesake the book, is capable of movement only after its assembly: otherwise, it boasts no moving parts.
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1362 19 16
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severe snow storm coming. I'm looking for a parking spot and listening to Machito & Charlie Parker
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1559 17 16
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1500 22 17
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The bungalow was unlocked. The screen
door was unhooked. The trout on the
counter was deboned.
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1588 17 14
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...the astonishing discovery...
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