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"You swallowed a Vicodin,
sipped your double scotch,

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and asked from where you
sat at the kitchen counter,

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what is the meaning
of this life?

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To numb the pain, my darling,
and to master our cliches.

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You told me Jewish people
don't talk about the afterlife

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because nothing is knowable.

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I like this theory.

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Pure formalism seems
the death of an idea.

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I didn't believe you were
ignoring me until you said,

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I'm not ignoring you.

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I can't sit still.

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I have no thoughts
outside my own.

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That's death to a writer.

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Mike texts, wait till your
book gets on the New York Times

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Bestseller List.

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I humor him, I know!

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Exclamation point.

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Actually, I'm getting
paid to endorse products

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in my new work.

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I'm wearing a Roberto
Cavalli gown right now.

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Actually, I've been
on strike for months

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and haven't written a word.

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The CIA sent me to Europe as
an employee of a fake company

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to penetrate Islamic networks.

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Actually, I read that on
the internet about the CIA,

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though I know a girl who was
training to be in the FBI.

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She is prepared to kill someone.

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I killed a spider yesterday.

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Two of its legs stuck
to the rolled up catalog

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and went to the
wall, but the body

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went missing somewhere
on the bathroom floor.

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Friends send me links to
breaking news for inspiration

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like, 'Japanese girl's letter
returned 15 years later

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by a fish' and 'ah,
that's the spot,

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why scratching brings relief.'

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Beloved's scratching
suppresses painful memories.

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Suddenly, I itch all over."

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