You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
Panic strikes me when I think about a sentence that isn__ given the chance to live because I don__ have a pen in my hand or am not sitting near enough to someone familiar to speak it to. Especially if it__ a particularly good sentence, a sentence with truth or beauty or humor or sadness to it. The best ones always take you by surprise. They sneak into your head while you__e walking down the aisles at a supermarket, or flat-out assault you when you__e at your grandmother__ funeral, and you have to scramble to give the thought life before it__ gone forever. Cocktail napkins, palms, text messages sent to yourself.
Somewhere Over the Sun
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Panic strikes me when I think about a sentence that isn__ given the chance to live because I don__ have a pen in my hand or am not sitting near enough to someone familiar to speak it to. Especially if it__ a particularly good sentence, a sentence with truth or beauty or humor or sadness to it. The best ones always take you by surprise. They sneak into your head while you__e walking down the aisles at a supermarket, or flat-out assault you when you__e at your grandmother__ funeral, and you have to scramble to give the thought life before it__ gone forever. Cocktail napkins, palms, text messages sent to yourself.
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