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As the sun rose each morning, so did the lonely old man with it; a sad limping figure strolling across the front lawn with a cigar tucked in his mouth, lighting fresh candles here and there, perhaps on an imagined grave of some loved one long lost to the infirmity of time…
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Sixteen years married, and now she wants a wedding ring. He brings her a box of Cracker Jack. She doesn’t think it is funny.
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Ricky imagines bending her over his conga, yanking that bushy dark ponytail like reins and ripping into her. He sits, watches, legs crossed, smoking a cigarette. He needs a dancer for the Jezebel number now that Connie is showing. This girl would make a f
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(Insert poignant line here)
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During war, as in any terrible time of upheaval, burials are merely quick words and a scattering of dirt, if the dead are lucky.
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We were on the L train.You were reading Fifty Shades of Gray;I was reading One Hundred Years of Solitude. You never looked up until just as I moved off, always looking back your way and hopingyou would lift your head. And then you did, at the last moment,but…
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The body is an endless safari
filled with rhino sightings
and encounters with antelope.
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Sometimes I had the time right, and sometimes the place; that day, they came together.
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A figure left the building.
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The hour reflected those pleasant moments when evening hunger can be satiated by anticipation alone, before the pangs become demanding.
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I couldn’t begin to give an account of the latest days.
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And here you are. Before your time. Behind the glass.
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burnt-up leaves rustle and fall
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I was to limp with stunned, growing horror, as I navigated through the swirling smoke and maze of human corpses...
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I formed a snowball in my bare hands. Hard as a rock, I let her fly.
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They say, we have hangnails.
I say, I have a bruised leg.
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“ I told you what she said, that she liked me better when I was drinking. Well, that's the way I feel, too. I liked her better when I was drinking.”
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an undercurrent of fear is running through my community
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She was thrilled when she learned that her best friend was having an affair.
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Class differences in New York (and if you believe F. Scott Fitzgerald, in America, generally) are best viewed from the beach.
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The day after falling in love,
I became unmoored from everything familiar.
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It has scent, your heat, of jonquils and lime, of spices seared in a hot black pan.
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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …
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I'm still working on this. I'm always open to your thoughts.
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It chases other newborns down and eats them.
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He was starting fresh, starting legal.
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Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
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Sometimes you can't sleep.
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