1550 10 8
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1794 13 6
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...galaxies burst into an infinite slide-show of the absolute... god?
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1522 10 8
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Unreasonable anger, Each hour prescribed
The house haunted
with good intentions,
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957 9 6
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We laugh at them, parading two-by-two, the elephants rolling tail to trunk across the makeshift gangplank, wide slats flexing under their sway. A pair of snakes contemplates gulping a pair of frogs and their clandestine movements stun a cricket and his mate. Birds squat…
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1997 10 9
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The winner was some kid from Ohio or Oklahoma -- one of those states that begins with an "O" and ends with a yawn.
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1702 8 9
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I thought the Ferris wheel was dumb. All it did was give you a high altitude view of the little Minnesota town where I had grown up.
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1925 5 4
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1533 11 9
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The universe extracts no retribution./
It annihilates without a thought/
of evil/good, sin/virtue.
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1068 11 8
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1580 3 1
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Warning: Open and read before making any dumb-ass New Year's resolutions.
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1474 10 8
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I never took more than a few pills at a time, just enough for a treat on Friday night.
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1846 11 9
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The taste of / what is denied us is always sweet
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1983 11 8
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A friend of mine is killing me With all of her lies. If I die tonight, you can bet it's Because of her. A friend of mine Is killing me with those lit eyes like Twin pyramids holding up her rambling Blue skyline. Look I don't have to …
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1645 9 8
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Actress Rita Moreno wakes up humming.People (5/1/17)Riding a roller coaster with your partner makes you more attractive to each other. People (5/1/17)The image on the commemorative stamp the Central African Republic recently issued to honor film legend Marilyn Monroe…
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1569 10 8
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hookers are better educated these days
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2725 13 8
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I stood there skinny-as-a-half in “big hair,” ankle boots, and black eyeliner. P. was in radio, not books. He had a sense of humor. I was researching a different man for a novel.
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1923 17 8
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Mama loves birds but is afraid to fly.
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1325 16 8
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Rain and wind and the pecking of birds
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1806 14 8
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She walks ahead, dropping matches as she goes. Grassland is consumed by flames and when I arrive all is wasted.
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1323 11 8
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Since dawn doesn't understand my words, I will give them to the donkey, finely cut for him, let them ferment some time and add a few sprigs of lucerne. The donkey grazes in the meadow down the road and always welcomes me with a grin that displays his mauve gums and his…
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1122 17 7
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are you afraid sometimes, in the night, in the wind as it beats down your maelstrom thoughts?
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1899 12 7
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I have no more use for the beautiful words you used to like so much for me tosend you alone. See my feathers donot so much hide me now as giveme away; I tend to feel farfrom home. Forgive me this. Theend jumped by me quicker than anorange flower cricket on its…
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1231 15 8
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I haven't felt my soul leave my body
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1226 13 8
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Humanity comes without a choice
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1274 13 8
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The creatures were thief-walking...
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2297 14 8
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Martín stood over the slow, labored panting as if it were a mystery he could not explain. The dog lay on the frayed pillow bed, a knot of fur and skin, in his father’s office. One eye, like an almond floating in milk, stared up at the boy.
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3488 9 4
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He envisioned sinking his hands through his fat and pulling out the young, sinewy, long-haired Brendan Yin, the man Evelyn fell in love with. The blubbery shell would fall away to the floor, like a greasy banana peel, and the real Brendan Yin would be lo
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2944 14 8
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Just stay at home woman, and do your job /
wash those dishes, mama, its what I pays you for
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2630 11 7
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Wrapping Kevin It was his last…
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2086 13 8
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I had been in bed for a couple of days and by this I mean sleeping for fifteen or sixteen hours at a time. I don’t think that I believed in God anymore. I no longer knew how to stay awake.
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