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I don__ like seeing you hit.___ell, to be quite honest, I don__ like being hit unless it__ by you._ As soon as it was out of my mouth, I realized what I had said. __hat sounded all sorts of wrong.___nsanely so, actually.___o be clear,_ I said to any overhearing ears, __ hit him back--___ard.___t__ a very give-and-take, non-abuse type hitting situation__he sides of Liam__ mouth folded up like an accordion. __ou should probably stop now._____ trying. My mouth keeps moving of its own accord.

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These days every morning begins like a joke you think you have heard before, but there is no one telling it whom you can stop. One day it's about a cow who walks into a bar, then about a man with a big nose on his honeymoon, then about a kangaroo who walks into a bar. Each one takes up an entire day. The sun looks like a prank Nathanael West is pulling on the world; on the drive to work cars are swinging comically from lane to lane. The houses and lawns belong in cartoons. The hours collapse into one another's arms. The stories arc over noon and descend like slow ferris wheels into the haze of evening. You wish you could stop listening and get serious. Trouble is you cannot remember the punch line which never arrives till very late at night, just as you are reaching for the bedside lamp, just before you begin laughing in the dark.

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Billy Collins

The Apple that Astonished Paris

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As far as he could discover, there were no signs of spring. The decay that covered the surface of the mottled ground was not the kind in which life generates. Last year, he remembered, May had failed to quicken these soiled fields. It had taken all the brutality of July to torture a few green spikes through the exhausted dirt.What the little park needed, even more than he did, was a drink. Neither alcohol nor rain would do. Tomorrow, in his column, he would ask Broken-hearted, Sick-of-it-all, Desperate, Disillusioned-with-tubercular-husband and the rest of his correspondents to come here and water the soil with their tears. Flowers would then spring up, flowers that smelled of feet."Ah, humanity..." But he was heavy with shadow and the joke went into a dying fall. He trist to break its fall by laughing at himself.

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Nathanael West

Miss Lonelyhearts