318 4 3
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you look like
the insides of my cheeks
chewed.
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1680 5 3
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"I see a child's bicycle swarmed by bees. A stolen oil painting of a helicopter...no, no, that ain't it. Wait. A high school basketball coach will hang himself from a bridge you often think about. This man, now, he's a Navajo Indian.
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1151 5 3
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The bar was dark and a little dirty, and that suited Splinker's mood just fine.
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1180 4 3
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They found your athymic neck/clipped like a bag of Skittles/and your lifeblood left a Rorschach test on the dash/in which they saw the future/and their own exits/(straight ahead and to the right).
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IT's like, 15 words. Do you really need a snippet?
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1236 5 3
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Having sex with her there made me feel like a child molester, I said. She said it made her excited.
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925 3 3
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out in space/ platonic forms/ dazzle with/ voluptuous grace
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1282 5 3
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Don reports everything to Uzma and Rasheed, I'm aware of that. It doesn't bother me. I'm not hiding anything from them or anyone else.
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The tall, standing woman with bright red lipstick, elegant at one time, you could tell, responding, “She has dementia,” pointing at her brain. “She was a Holocaust survivor.”
And the one they’re talking about turns as she’s pushing her wal
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1215 6 2
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The sting of a slap will be remembered, as will sex, or at least a fragment of it, such as the face of a man in your room who tied your hands with the belt of your plush terry bathrobe.
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1242 10 2
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I never pulled it off, never rode an atom through a super collider with a nose full of cocaine and a drink in my hand. Never was a bullet, zooming through the city, skin pressed to bone, nerves on fire. Never was an atom bomb, ever-exploding in slow motion, ripping off…
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Her pudgy face, flour-coated and sugary and so life-nurturing in the past, had a different spark now, a searching look I’d seen as soon as she opened the door.
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We've worked silence over /
Like pros, our best work together.
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His wealth showed best in her full figure.
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"There's a concert next month," Sherry said. "Why don't you come to that and I'll introduce you? Then we can go from there."
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779 5 3
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the continuous racket, a buzz saw trumpet
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Ted did not understand turn-of-the-century costume dramas, and because he didn’t understand them, he often referred to them as "chick flicks" or "English crap." Even when the principals were not British. Even when the principals were Winona Ryder.
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I’ve paid my dues in this dimension/
so show me where the rest of them are
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718 6 3
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c'mon honey let's go get stoned
the night is falling
where did you say we were going?
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1273 4 4
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It was one of those weekday mornings in early spring when Marjorie and I could wander from chapel to chapter house with only security guards for company.
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1391 5 2
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I know what he meant.
I've been in the 3 A.M. cream cheese.
I've known the hole in the bagel.
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This is my secret source of income, you see....
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1069 5 3
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Well, now it has fallen away some
but I felt better about it when it was raging
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1087 4 4
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instead of gun metal deceit, sounds of malice;be a drop of rain.
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1422 5 3
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Commencons (let us begin) our deconstruction of la bouteille typique de shampooing (the typical shampoo bottle).
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1397 8 3
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She thought maybe an angel had called out her name. She wasn't sure. She was waiting for her older sister to return with Jujy Fruits and bonbons. The theater, neither light nor dark, was to Cassie's ten-year-old mind, an appropriate-enough setting for a v
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I'm re-invented on Main St. every single day.
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