Live the boom, unruffled,
busts, in the shade.
Spiralling gold prices,
frozen pay checks
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Live the boom, unruffled,
busts, in the shade.
Spiralling gold prices,
frozen pay checks
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And the poor have the sufferings to which they are fairly accustomed
And each in the cell of
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When Daddy’s brother, Uncle Edward, got a new horse for his fancy shows, he gave me his gentle old mare, Pearl, for my seventh birthday. I thought she was the best present ever.
“That’s a
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To Quit on Sunday:
Debt free
Investments decent
Savings is minimal
No plan
Probably meet a
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I remember that day starting off ordinarily enough; there I was playing in the open field not that far from home, the sky azure with hardly a cloud blighting its face.
The lie of the land is so
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The train takes exactly 12 hours to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco, leaving at midnight and arriving in the high noon sun. This is quite apt in a way, for by making you wait for the good ... [+]
My blues ain’t yours!
my blues be,
maybe more
but no less then
400 years of,
broken black
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Dear Giantess
I am as big as the sea
My hair as long as a neck
My thighs are ribbed with
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No matter the color of your face
No matter the beatings of your heart
If you wanna win the
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This is not the America that I know nor is it the one that I dreamed for me
It began when you
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I always wonder if cavemen and women knew what time was? And if so, did it seem to accelerate and decelerate to them, as it appears to us today? The concept of time has only changed recently (a few ... [+]
The thing about trauma, when it is survived, is that it can prepare people for the future. Sometimes people develop skills to handle a crisis or deescalate violence. Veterans can become police ... [+]
The words in my textbook dance off the page in highlighted neon lines. I hadn’t made the highlights. They came with the book despite Ebay’s reassurance that it was in “good condition; like ... [+]
Joan feels remorse for having hated her toes most of her life. She inherited them from her grandmother, who had hated them too. Her grandmother had cried at the swimming pool on Joan's 11th birthday ... [+]
My America is so free until its dysfunctional. My family is as functionally, dysfunctional as they come. Because of them, I have loved and can persevere anything. I have never discussed what it has ... [+]
Ending my shift in the darkness of the night. Walking to the car quite exhausted. Climbing slowly into the driver's seat. Inhaling a deep breath prior to starting the ignition. I exhale and listen ... [+]
I met Mario my sophomore year in high school; we had five of our six classes together. I was not arguing with that kind of fate, and I was going to know Mario. Our high school was ninety two percent ... [+]