August 2012
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“Or a long, laughing, rambling phone message in which every person this person has ever known is talking on a speakerphone and they are all saying, You have passed the test, it was all just a test, we were only kidding, real life is so much better than that.”
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“We waited and waited. All of us. Didn’t the shrink know that waiting was one of...”
– Charles Bukowski
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jensensbluesteel:
The Wire
serene-quill:
It wasn’t a coat hanger. It was a wire.
The theory was that by inserting the wire through the cervix, moving it around a bit and then removing it, an infection would result and the pregnancy would be aborted. It worked. It was March 1967.
Afterward, after I watched the ‘doctor’ wash his hands with one of those little soaps wrapped in white paper,...
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“The worst it got was near the end. A lot of people died right at the end, and I didn’t know if I could make it another day. A farmer, a Russian, God bless him, he saw my condition, and he went into his house and came out with a piece of meat for me.”
“He saved your life.”
“I didn’t eat it.”
“You didn’t eat it?”
“It was...
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“I knew I had to go home, I hated myself for going, why couldn’t I be the kind of person who stays?”
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“Older brother, restless soul, lie down Lie for a while with your ear against the earth And you’ll hear your sister sleep talking Say, “Your hair is long but not long enough to reach Home to me But your beard Someday might be” And she woke up in a cold sweat on the floor Next to a family portrait drawn when you were four And beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good no more She’ll lay...
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