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Posts tagged with shoplifting
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That Brief Moment of Terrified Truth
And there it is. Maybe, you have let this go on too long. You have definitely let this go on too long. This trick wants to fuck you in the ass. Maybe, you could run. Running has all kinds of problems as a plan. It is not a plan. You…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times: Growing Old in America
Poverty is a cycle. It comes. It goes. It eats its young. It decimates its old. It is not unlike the people who inhabit it. Tara Parker-Pope’s statement in the New York Times: Getting older is inevitable (and certainly better than the alternative) stuns me. We are afraid of death.…
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the waffle house poems
i knew he’d be in there he was he was wanted by the cops for shoplifting at fifteen, he had avoided all the traps the hoodie obfuscated his face from the cameras his tongue was not much given to a torrent of words maybe you might get one word grunts…
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Stealing Video Cameras
One of the most popular things to steal in America would be disposable video cameras. I can’t imagine why someone would shoplift this camera that can be had for as much as five bucks. Not everyone has five bucks. If you didn’t have five bucks, and the choices were stealing…