835 8 4
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He had become an accessory to a murder.
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—You must be joking, he laughed.
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55122
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The Dude asked Ed: "What about Love, Man?"
Ed shrugged. "Love is just acceptance."
Words that would change my life forever.
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Liz spied the box of Kleenex right away. She sat down at the chair closest to the Kleenex.
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8781612
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Don't mistake my eyes for supplication.
My invisibility is your nightmare.
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'love is when the body goes away.'
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96964
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And as you try to read, he appears.
No, not in front of you, but somewhere
just behind your eyes. You hear the sound
at the end of an argument, just before
the kiss; you see a shirt fall to the ground
in late summer; you watch him read
as his mouth
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I want to ask him why not now, right here on the living room floor when Rosie is out for the day. Instead, I suggest Sunday afternoon. I can make grilled cheese sandwiches and we'll eat them on the veranda. I'll take off my tennis skirt and unbutton my...
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42030
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"I didn't ask you to unhook my bra." her words were blunt and bitter in blue and white iMessaging font.
A gap of an hour went by and he grappled with what to say next.
"I'm sorry." was all he finally came up with. "I thought you wanted me to. You
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67066
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I'll still want the blinds open
and the lights on,
to see the papier-mache of our flesh
fighting death away to the century mark,
even if you only want to live until
a ripe eighty-two.
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9298
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The single halter that I have -- a candle, or
a torch, though fulgent -- is no solvent to absence.
I eat in silence; I take, finally, like some communion wafer,
a thought on my tongue, and swallow the cusp of evening.
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Where am I? The void between life and death. The light at the end is flickering, not as bright nor as strong as I’d hope it would be.
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When you think I'm not looking,
I always am.
You say it's like nicotine, your best analogy as a non-smoker.
The kind of hit that is hard to live without and isn't it human nature,
you ponder.
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We're not running this by the women. We'll tell them what they like. We've always done that.
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