1752 35 21
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everything plus zero stays the same
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1880 25 21
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“Your sister is a slut,” said Ma to me over supper.
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2431 31 23
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1535 39 24
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I hit the pole near Whited Avenue a year to the day.
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2145 29 19
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Accept that your husband's heart always belonged to his first love. You should've noticed sooner because she works in your building and won't look you in the eye. She takes the stairs because you ride the elevator.
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1441 27 20
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I told mamma I was leavin’ you –/
you and your hard drinkin’, devil/
writin’ ways,
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your mania for sentences / has dried up your heart
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1962 54 21
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"You are not a vintage radio. Not even close."
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1498 26 25
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There's no surcease from heat, no "cool of the evening," like the songs say about summer in the South. Those songwriters sat under fans in the Brill Building in downtown Manhattan.
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2083 40 20
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They lie down in the prairie grass and clutch each other, imagine dying under fat clouds.
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1895 32 19
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My wife goes away for a few days to the little town where Hitchcock filmed The Birds. Her sister goes along. When she comes back, I ask her if she had a good time, and she says no.
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1034 30 22
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I wake up in the morning and write her name on the white paper napkin I always place in front of me at the kitchen table as I have my first cup of coffee. I write it throughout the day. Twelve or fifteen times. I've done this for exactly twenty-three days. I always…
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1621 40 22
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You have arrived at the river, numb with the murmur of the city and the sleeplessness of anger, boredom, and too many people loving too many people too much. The heat in this night, not the moon as in ancient poems, is blazing; the moon is pink like the…
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2051 36 22
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2467 34 17
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One day, when Rabbit was taking his medications, Tigger bounced his carrots to smithereens and Rabbit had an idea. A wonderful, terrible idea.
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1476 26 20
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He boarded the wrong plane. (Hey, it could happen. Maybe not after 9/11, but certainly before)
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1519 28 20
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It's so nice
to be under something else's power
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1657 23 21
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The debits and credits of life have been recalculated. You are not due tax; you are owed a trapeze. It turns out you have a natural gift for hanging upside down, knees to the clouds.
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1407 24 24
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1986 4 4
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I hear all the static in her head, all the fuzzy threads from half a mile away. She hates dirt. She hates the couples who come in and talk stupid lies at each other. It's so simple with her. I ask what she likes. The feeling of soft wool on her bare nippl
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1533 24 22
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But I came back around, after Robert Kennedy got shot, with one hand up your skirt and the other on the gear shift...
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1453 46 22
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Mirko returns!
All the words have been said.
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1447 21 15
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The dog is there, on sorry legs, with sorry claws. He looks toward the man, the bat, and says, You know me, Man. I know you know me.
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2094 38 20
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One dinner party, two couples, three bottles of wine.
A moonbeam shone on the balcony. They felt a slight shifting under their chairs and heard a quiet scraping sound, then the apartment slid out from the building and lifted away.
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1535 33 24
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No one explained triumph
would feel like this.
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2337 12 17
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Let x equal the moment just after he tells her he's starting a club for people who know something about computers.It is summer, 1984, and this is their grade school playground. She is idling on a swing over a patch of scuffed earth. He stands just off to the side, one…
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1895 21 18
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is all but invisible. Some say this is because it is within a bakery within a bakery within a bakery and thus appears to be everywhere at once.The cake for God has never been eaten except by children who seem to later forget what it tasted like. Some …
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1479 16 11
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the cheek of you! to dream/ upon my sheets in schoolboy peace/ when here i lie,/ each second spent/ a tranquilized tiger cursed with awareness/ for all the flesh so near its maw.
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11889 18 11
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It is no easy thing getting noticed on Las Ramblas.
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1652 17 14
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a chosen cantaloupe a child let loose . . .
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