The bum on the corner holds his sign: ANY AMOUNT WELCOME GOD BLESS. Whether he’s scamming or not he’s superior, he can toss away self-respect or dignity long enough to collect, and everything he makes he keeps, no tax. What good is self-respect if it doesn’t pay off?
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Welcome to the world’s shortest love story! I found a matchbook in the street. I ignored all of the matches still intact, noticing only the space where one had been ripped out and used. That was the match I wanted.
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Kayaking. Why?
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Frisbee on the roof, neon orange plastic bleached white by the sun. What does this have to do with winter? It’s over.
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Giant tortoises never write books, or maybe they do, they just procrastinate the first 100 years.
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Why are you surprised by problems? So much of our economy is based on people that never learn.
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I read the obituaries, aka People You Will Never Meet. It’s the only part of the paper promising an end to suffering.
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Only very still fish prefer to swim in formaldehyde.
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I can’t cry.
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