1188 18 8
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"leaves &damage, &shifts of shape"
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1495 4 2
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He (after learning of my former occupation as a record store owner): So, what is your favorite band of all time?
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762 13 9
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"covered in a sheen of sweat, flowers of salt bloom on my T-shirt"
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1405 14 8
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To stop the world from explodingLike Krypton. It has to be.Like purple flowers we're there on Burnt battlefields. It raises its flag, Too, and continues the march towardThe dreaming sun in spite ofAll the smoke and ash thisWorld has to offer. Our…
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1428 11 8
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Everyone at the Bermudez Brothers Combined Shows and Circus held one low opinion or another about Jimmy Dubcek.
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1269 11 8
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Me and Dale chuck rocks at it.
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1056 15 9
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Conjure calamity and calamity comes.
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1126 10 8
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After his chemotherapy failed, he went water skiing.
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991 14 9
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everything moved in circles
like the music, the booze and the drugs
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1233 15 8
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Mostly, though, reiteration of the old/
in an idiosyncrasy that strives/
to become fresh and fails
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1084 14 9
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the wind mistook your arms for wings
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1223 10 10
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My lipline's retreated since Tuesday. I'll toss those Hazel Bishop reds, (lipstick on shriveled lips rattles men, scares little children) skip Woolworth's cosmetics counter, save backaching, ankleswelling pondering of powders, rouges, …
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1021 10 9
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...clash of gulls
wend upwards, disappearing into grey
night's high tide recedes
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1278 13 9
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Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
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1634 8 8
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I lay naked on the floor, feet toward the door, so that when my wife entered she would immediately see that leggy thoroughfare, ending at deflated buttocks and chicken-skinned scrotum, and in her repulsion repel me from her life. How wrong I was.
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438 9 8
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He felt sick at heart, as if he'd just been told he'd been fired from a job to which he'd devoted 60 years of his professional life. And for no good reason; the profession no longer existed. It had slipped into obsolescence, like blacksmithing at the beginning of the…
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598 12 9
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Who does that besides Kafka,
Arreola, and Steven Wright?
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1413 10 9
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I was a disposable disaster at first, a thousand Light years ago. We sail the seas we're given, and Like all of you I did my best to survive , but that doesn't mean we get To survive it like you. Our course may have blown us Completely…
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1400 13 8
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I want nothing to do with anyone,
other than doing nothing with you.
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1241 12 9
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The bus is late; the papers disappear.
The china breaks, and the suit does not fit.
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938 12 9
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718 11 10
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"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is…
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5050 14 7
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The plumber has three lives left or else he is already dead.
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736 8 9
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When he saw me, he jumped faster and faster, wild like something rabid.
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1365 10 10
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He says he’ll have a Bud, too. The woman taps her pencil on her pad, looks at the kid and says, “When?”
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3530 6 5
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When the sun saw what they was doin’, it slipped behind a sexy cloud and turned a blind eye.
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1285 5 4
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306 18 8
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Mickey Mouse mini-nukes are often placed in children's school lunch boxes for cooling sandwiches, though an accidental meltdown could cause the food to become dangerously hot in both senses of the term.
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446 9 8
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Her hands are swift and supple as swallows, bouncing off the keyboard in rapid-fire constellations of notes, because she's playing Bach's Concerto no.1 in D Minor, which is busy and prodigal and all over the place. She is Polina Olegovna Osetinskaya, a beautiful Russian…
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1196 16 9
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How a breeze feels evaporating sweat on neck and forearms.
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