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1 " In fact, he had become an it, and those of us who knew him noted how poorly itness suited him, his pale demeanor resembling nothing he’d been. "
― Stephen Dunn , Whereas: Poems
2 " Doesn’t blood usually follow when language fails? "
3 " She was thinking a woman needed an angel for every son of a bitch she’d ever known. "
4 " She’d seen her best friends disappear into their marriages. Even when she spoke on the phone to them, they weren’t there. "
5 " Finally, though, she had to admit a penis was silly, mostly hiding, like a diphthong in a sentence you had to work too hard to figure out. "
6 " Evil always has an advantage and always succeeds until its enormous feet understep some moral chasm, or a damsel held dear by the populace cries out and is heard. "
