2053 24 17
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He wore his hip in his hips, his lipsShe wanted to know if he would lick the edgesWhen he pulled the coffee cup from his mouthA bit of foam clung to his moustacheShe watched it there, wondering if he wouldTwirl it off with his fingersOr lick it, his tongue darting out like…
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2628 29 11
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On the eve of celebrating their patron saint at the public house, one of his particularly cabbaged mates was bold enough to ask him about his cranial deformity.
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2842 31 16
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I don’t remember the name of the boy in high school
or if I cried at his funeral
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2673 25 16
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The last time they made love she could feel the hint of pain and loss which would become her.
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2013 24 17
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His head was usually full of ah ha!, a luminescence that folded around obstacles like smoke.
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2920 13 9
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241 45 14
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2284 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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2419 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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2319 9 7
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Should have washed our hands, we thought after, licking sugar-spit and dirt.
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4303 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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2060 20 18
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or the voice that wants/
to be inscribed/
forgets the sounds
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2696 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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2158 24 16
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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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2776 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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2612 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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821 13 13
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Wait until you are home alone at last. Put the dog outside. Close the cat in the room down the hall, where you can't hear her mew to be let out. Turn off the television. Switch off any devices playing music. Take the phone off the hook. Turn your cell ph
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3259 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. English…
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1861 29 13
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With such demeaning precarity, I can’t read/
anything more than a thousand words
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2177 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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3110 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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2549 17 17
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Andreas Cappelanus taught that the word / “love” comes from the word meaning / “to fish.”
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3137 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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3544 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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1504 4 6
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If you were glassI'd fog you up With my breathI'd leave messagesPictographsIn fingerprints I'd press in closeSo would youAnd so we'd danceBut you are glassAn inch of depthTo catch my breath
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1996 19 16
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My wife thinks I should be committed.
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2038 39 14
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Where seldom is heard
an encouraging word
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1982 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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2727 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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