149111
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At one point he’d said: Don’t you have work to do? And she’d said: I’m doing it now.
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206483
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They should have shot me when I turned 80, a bullet right between my sunken eyes.
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9600
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We moved on past the events of quiet rage, subtle acts of suicide, less subtle acts of calm homicide as people imperceptibly became willing to do more heinous acts than they were yesterday.
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156566
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It drifted into the sea, I say, when you ask me about home. You’ve only known me for a few moments, so you’re not sure how to gauge me. You laugh, and make an Annabel Lee reference. The English teach in me wants to hug you. The New Jersey in me wants
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7582
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History has never been alive for my forward seeing eyes; I only looked towards the future. I never saw the machines of war, soldiers who marched upon the people, taking down their meager barricades. They took down…
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153710
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But she knew what she would find. She knew it all the moment she felt the sticky fingerprints behind the slat of her old oak slay bed. The fingerprints that would only be left from a person grabbing it from behind their head. The fingerprints that she
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116125
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I was looking for hope, and received none.
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7511
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Evil encroaches on all sides.
Wicked things with gaping maws and empty eyes
Grunting, snarling beasts of hell's creation.
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90620
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I’ve been silent for a long time. All my life, actually. And it never occurred to me whether or not that was a bad thing.
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92688
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I can confirm nothing/
but impressions of the world//
that appear beyond my/
body’s reach.
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4332
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I despair for the world, /
Its hunger, violence, corruption, /
things like this /
I cannot write.
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433156
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1168125
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844127
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What purpose other than misery/
can cancer serve? And Parkinson's,/
AIDS, and STDs?
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