1184 16 8
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1483 12 8
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"Check out these dudes,” he says. “They're all wearing kilts. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as long as they're wearing underwear.
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1196 17 8
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1320 8 10
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The floor dissolves beneath us, pierced by lasered/
glare of countless eye-beams.
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1356 12 8
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in White Heat
there’s a character
who reads lips
using a mirror to see
the mouths of prisoners
in other cells
that’s how I feel
when I talk
with you
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2218 10 6
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Grief is to have given freely too unfreely. Grief is to have given one year too many. Wicked is to have wanted it to be given away that way. Wicked is to Sam as duty is to Mother. Sam’s wife is to his friend’s wife as one Mercedes to another.
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1293 11 9
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One night while in rehab I had a dream that I worked as a violin maker in Salzburg.
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2814 11 9
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"Did you see that?!" exclaimed Judy jerking suddenly from her weathered Adirondack chair.
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1908 19 8
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He stared at the mirror, his hair looked chewed up–severed by a miniature lawnmower.
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1618 8 7
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the steady, persistent work of beauty
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1370 9 8
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You snore and the house is safe again.
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1171 15 9
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Dread and drudgery sour each day
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1474 16 8
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1636 10 9
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Strike me down hard, bolt of pure blue, laser focus square, blast of hydrogen nuclear, knock me on the keister, blind me down, oh Lordy Lord Lord.
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957 14 6
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1433 11 10
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They wanted to go fresh water fishing, so I had to buy worms. None there in the saltwater town. Drove about 10 miles over the long bridge to cross the bay. I'd been there before. Walked in and a crusty, little skinny man got up from his chair. He: Watcha need? Me: Fresh…
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1722 12 8
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Are they too old for life's little pleasures? The answer comes as I pass them on the canyon road one morning.
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795 16 8
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a boy with a gun, a skateboard, and spray-paint
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132 18 8
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Dinosaurs, a little boy, a hapless mother and mortality.
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1543 12 8
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246 11 9
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1759 21 7
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55 words, slightly naughty
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2086 10 9
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Marcy is two years older and got her period the summer before me. She thinks she’s a professor of everything, but she’s my best friend so I don’t say she’s being stupid or that her tangerine lipstick is smeared across her front teeth.
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1520 11 9
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skin cancer
walks along Zuma beach
at noon
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1971 14 8
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once she went to quenchthen she went to scrubnow she collects dead toadsgrinds them with cornmeal to feed her sowsonce she ploughed the land toiled with her face deep in dark soil her back burning in hot sunnow she works in the paper millmaking laminated labels for the…
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790 13 7
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unsteady, they try to rise
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1618 9 9
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He remembered waking up on those lazy summer days hearing the sad song of mourning doves.
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1434 13 8
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1368 13 9
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1407 10 9
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I don't need to be toldhow natural you are, not here.I'm reminded every singletime I open my eyes.What I want to know iswhere have you gone? Whyhas it taken you so verylong to return? But Iknow the answer. You aresomewhere fighting for your dearlife. It's what we all do--in…
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