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• "The Americans in their wisdom have taken the heads off the pictures, enlarged them and superimposed them with the heads of animals and then strung them up all over the walls of the interrogation room," he said
• he taught me to fly then took away my sky
• I was less than one hundred footsteps away from you I suppose
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
• It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• steal out the eyes from the angels and set them as stars
• We've come from too far away, I think, to really make much contact.
• Having gotten myself into a position where I can have my cake and eat it too, I feel a strong compulsion to get up from the table
• I write my secrets on the bathroom mirror, like Jesus, before wiping them away to check my hair.
• My first and last attempt at a one night stand was raided by the police
• Now and Then : From Coney Island to Here
• throw them away; there will be individually-wrapped replacements
• This book was stolen from the Harvard College Library. It was later recovered. The thief was sentenced to two years at hard labor.
• And the power of the Great Peace drove the evil from them
• Having run away from a wedding reception
• Home away from home
• Up, Up and Away
• Up From The Downvote
• I crave it like well water, pulled up from the deep
• away from me
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• We were all waiting to hear those words (and no one ever said them)
• "It was wrong to do this," said the angel
• I'm Rudy Giuliani! I was mayor of New York on 9/11! I Should Be The President!
• The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
• The Tale of a Youth who set out to learn what Fear was
• The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
• He said I'm better off without you, 'til I showed him my tattoo
• Let's run away to where the shooting stars fall and meet them when they land
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
• Why some guys don't pick up on hints from women
• Your job is to brush away the cobwebs from the corners of your emotional bedroom.
• I get up from my sleeping spot
• How to get away at work without doing anything
• When smoke stood up from Ludlow
• And then I will just slip away
• Bringing them back from the dead
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• Inches away from her face
• Drop the hamster and back away from the canary
• You can never get away from yourself
• And Then I Said "Touche"
• Why do all the pretty things always run away from me?
• If you took away the floor, we'd be floating
• we woke up to find you gone. well, said the city, we still have the river.
• she turns and smiles, then walks away
• John 3:16 was said to one man, at night
• Was it something I said?
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• The voice of God spoke to me. It said, "Lift up everyone around you."
• The voice that said yes was mine.
• And then Satan said, Let there be cricket ball.
• How to set up a formal table
• How to set up and record an EEG
• Jesus said, "I love him, for he is my brother." He was talking about everyone.
• All it said was clump and scratch, and it only said those very late at night.
• Women you know you should just walk away from
• Get your dog away from my rims, cop
• Keep us away from us
• She picked herself up, wiping away at her dignity
• Why I ran away from home
• My people, some of them, have run away to 4chan and have no XP.
• He said 'tentacle porn', so I stuck my dick in a toaster and went from there
• Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
• The Ones Who Walk Away From Salemo
• How I was thrown from a car at 45 mph
• how to protect yourself from date rape drugs
• Crawling through festering flesh, hungry and, yearning, they wait for the day they will tear away from the dark.
• The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get
• Come Up From the Fields Father
• Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
• You make a light in the world and you hope someone can still look up from the dust for long enough to see it
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• Slipping away from myself
• NATO runs away from protestors in Victoria
• You know you've been away from home too long
• And then you made the world go away for a little while
• walk away from time
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• stop adoring from so far away
• I've got to get away from all this escapism
• It isn’t fun to hide. But it will protect you from lightning.
• She kissed me gently, just once, then walked away crying
• snapped up by giant mice from Mars
• Follow Up: Zero Tolerance for Police Harassment: Summer 2000 South Haven, MI
• It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came.
• Listen to me, because I am in the soapbox. This is the voice of the soapbox. I am calling to you. Do you hear the sounds of my soaply siren song? My syntactically sweet strumming along to sequential sequestrations of symmetrically snakey st
• "I see," said the blind man to his deaf wife as he picked up his hammer and saw
• Not what was said
• To a girl who thought she was moving away
• The sparkle of this angled blossoming was invading the Earth, and Vug said, "It's spring!" I kissed him.
• Keep guns away from drunks
• Far away from home
• So then she said
• if a bird is never free from his cage, then his world is only his name
• Choose your words carefully; now throw them away
• Step away from the fridge, lardass!
• Words said in anger are, in the end, just words. They only become daggers if you let them.
• No one ever said that the moral process of humanization was necessarily a pleasant thing.
• What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
• First Christmas Away From Home
• GpBCT: proof that Bob wins on a countable union of sets if he's guaranteed a win on each one of them
• If you love somebody, set them free
• how to set up and use a microphone in Windows
• set up
• and the moment we said we're not giving up is the moment we knew we'd never stop
• This is me, I said, and then I talked for hours
• only then will we be safe from each other
• running away from home
• I'd walk away from the dawn and leave for you
• Please leave me far away from your nonsense, woman.
• Suddenly alone among a million lives, far away from home
• stepping away from the computer, to go camping
• returning to that place from far away and long ago
• Till Eulenspiegel walks the tightrope
• even cigarette smoking, Atlantic City gamblers walked away from the slot machines
• It was the tree that gave him away.
• Everything is about a week away from paying off
• George W. Bush is a heartbeat away from the presidency
• they are waiting for us to return to them, beneath and away
• We had to go away ... and dream it all up again
• And then I crawled out from under the table
• What I used to be/Will pass away, and then you'll see/That all I want now/Is happiness for you and me
• keep away from children and poets.
• Cemeteries are boring, but I can't seem to stay away from this one in particular.
• Removed from humanity, I realized I was just another distraction
• I'll give up printf() when you pry my cold dead fingers from it
• As seen mouthed through one half inch of safety glass as the bus pulled away from the terminal and left a westward wafting cloud of exhaust
• Fucked up Facts from History
• How my Father was excommunicated from the LDS Church
• Finding the origin of a Hotmail message
• An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
• i Kill Strangers, Stay Away From Me
• These people from the other village smell wrong! Kill them!
• How to protect yourself from a vampire
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• Keeping secrets from your children may harm them
• Protected from the Rain
• Charles I's decision to rule without parliament from 1629
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
• On getting blown up 8000 miles from home by a man who does not own shoes
• And then wings sprouted from the space between my shoulders where my wings had once been
• The prettiest views are all from the ground up
• My purity was little stickers I willingly gave away in exchange for hearts
• I tiptoe back into myself so I can run from what I was
• Up From Slavery
• They protect us from danger by harming us before we can harm ourselves
• Those are giants; and if thou art afraid, away with thee out of this and betake thyself to prayer while I engage them in fierce and unequal combat
• Usually, if you've seen one bald man in a robe, you've seen 'em all, but most of them aren't burning alive from the inside out
• collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
• How I found peace staring up at the moon from a gutter in my dreams
• Oxford From Without
• Up from the depths
• She is lobbing rainbows at me from across the room and I am swallowing them like fear.
• First They Took Away Napster
• Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
• This was not my going away party
• The trail of its demise was visible from the surf.
• I dreamed of her pulse long before I took it from her
• keep away from children
• I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
• I'd like it here if I could leave and see you from a long way away
• Having someone wrapped around you, looking into your eyes, inches away from your face, smiling the cutest smile in the world and giving you quick little kisses on the nose is the greatest feeling anywhere ever
• An American in Tours
• fatigued from trying to keep up with all of the changes
• It looks like a tourism brochure photo from up here
• To withhold forgiveness from a person is like drinking poison and waiting for them to die.
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
• Your facts peel away from your own fiction

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