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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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His head was usually full of ah ha!, a luminescence that folded around obstacles like smoke.
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241 45 14
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1861 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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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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Should have washed our hands, we thought after, licking sugar-spit and dirt.
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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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or the voice that wants/
to be inscribed/
forgets the sounds
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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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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
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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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2056 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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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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With such demeaning precarity, I can’t read/
anything more than a thousand words
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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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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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Andreas Cappelanus taught that the word / “love” comes from the word meaning / “to fish.”
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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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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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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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My wife thinks I should be committed.
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Where seldom is heard
an encouraging word
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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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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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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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Did we get Jihadi John?/
And the highway to Mosul?//
What’s the score?
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will we become artifacts?
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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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