1907 15 12
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for going forthe river and being blinded by its millionsof invisible fish, all sparklinglike pink enchanteddreams made of rosequartz and shaped like glassroses, who would? I fell for an illusionaftermy own fashion,but I could alwaysadmit mymistakes and catcha laugh out…
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1965 18 9
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She waves her hand around, says, “Pah!” and starts digging invisible things out of the potato salad with her bare hands.
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1433 21 12
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We lie sleepless at night, enraged,/
and finger the keyboard
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1863 15 13
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Poets who thrum jirble and thwack
Poets who thrum eat quorn with raw swamms
Poets who thrum are eristic (not shambolic)
Poets who thrum deliciate unto kench when they freck
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1032 24 11
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I remembered our wedding reception. I tasted the crab cake, pulled her from greeting people, said, you have to try. And she did.
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1475 24 11
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1655 11 7
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The world knows how to make you smile. I'm certain, but it's your own unique grin that they want for themselves. It's always been their perfect prize to horde. The trouble of course comes from wanting something that only exists in…
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1162 16 12
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Millicent asked me to stop over at her place for coffee after work because we needed to talk. While pouring, she said she was torn about telling me what her father used to do to her when her mom was not around, but she thought I needed to know how twisted her life was…
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979 12 13
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The child was delivered, set to breathing, and whisked away before Fae Anne could even catch a glimpse of her.
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1358 12 13
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No one has touched me for a long, long time and I believe that is why I am dying. This is a notion that is new to me but it has persisted over the last few weeks and I believe I finally have apprehended the truth. There was a time, I remember all too well, when I might…
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2009 14 12
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I interviewed in an hour and didn’t have an umbrella, so I ducked inside the next door I passed. It didn’t matter what they sold, I wasn’t there to make a purchase.
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1870 21 8
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I am standing in my neighbor’s back yard in my underwear, and my trash can is clean.
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2538 12 9
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I'm standing outside your window with our son's fingers in my fist.
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2483 16 11
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Their breath stank inside my lungs and tamped down the very minute amount of remorse I had left. It was replaced with contempt. Their fear warmed my cold sensibility as I steeled myself.
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1580 18 12
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Reality winks at us then scampers off
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1721 19 13
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perjured like a fickle impulse
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1801 14 13
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. . . clinging to life in a shroud of winter air. It veered up five flights to a sweltering summer night on the roof . . .
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2254 15 11
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He gathers our abusive fathers, our esophageal tears, our peanut fetuses.
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1327 16 13
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A woman with fallen breasts is attempting to hang her laundry on a string. Two tall men mount horses and ride them into the meadow. A squad of children wrap themselves around a playground.
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1800 13 12
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They confess love for Karaoke and metal rock. They have purchased expensive Stratocasters and Zildjians.
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328 14 12
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I keep sneaking looks at this guy on the subway. He's old, maybe 80. Really thin, the kind of thin that makes you think of a skeleton. But he's wiry. His beard, it's a gray, shaggy mess. He's mostly bald, but the hair that grows around the sides and back of his head is too…
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958 13 12
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The little Lady and I drove down to New Orleans to take in the Mardi Gras festivities we’d read so much about.
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1501 14 13
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Hunters took 925 bears in the 2020 season in Vermont
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1988 6 6
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The light, oblique and waning, filters through butcher’s paper to reveal a body suspended in death but never decomposing.
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2044 22 10
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The Count was used to boredom but he had reached the point where he was even bored with boredom.
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1536 13 12
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2122 18 9
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Jesus will walk on the water.
Judas will walk on a technicality.
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1844 31 11
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They all looked for Vic's leg after the accident.
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1760 19 11
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1412 18 11
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"We gotta get out of here", you said
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