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I look on Britain as a new world, which it is almost madness to invade.

He resumed his nightly practice of writing without being able to see.

Ma didn’t believe in slapping. It was what common people did.

What humanity needed was that gravity-defying miracle, the bird.

Never issue a dare to a dead person. They’ve got all the time in the world.

If mine, then, is a religious Offence, leave it to religious Punishments.

this country will stick it to infiltrators imprison traitors love neighbors

Taller than most women, Sojourner Truth seemed to rise a little higher.

He will be unable to resist his manias for symmetry and completion.

Men like me and my brothers filmed what we planted for proof we existed.

When the snake attacked the soldier, its fangs left a violent opening.

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One said she heard the jazz-band sob when the little dawn was grey.

He was ready to move on, to touch his patients, to cut them open.

Ajax killed men and then animals thinking they were men.

Fatwas condoned our arrest for the rouged contours of our lips.

There was a shout, then a shot fired. I pressed the shutter again and again.

Her family was still poor and hungry and scared.

Before he started spraying he would hand her the mask to put on.

If life was exchanged, who is to say it flowed one way?

A goddess was offended; her altar required my virgin blood.

The first skeleton drawn from the earth, they called beautiful.

Condemned to an easy life balanced on the suffering in another land.

A memory in the drip, drip, drip of the kitchen sink that won’t stop.

Charlie wasn’t Lena’s first love, but he counted on being her last.

Here: geeky cyber-warriors crunch cheese Cheetos over keyboards.

They cut you off, let fall your hammered silver bracelets to the sand.

Yes, Eylon thought, he lied to Cath. Lied about his day, about the risks.