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51398247208797I just want to make/sure it's in New York City/and we get it done.5/26/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/51398247208/i-just-want-to-make-sure-its-in-new-york-city-andhttp://nyti.ms/10Mowlb
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73118530338590And in the middle/of January: I know/where I'd rather be.1/12/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/73118530338/and-in-the-middle-of-january-i-know-where-id-rathttp://nyti.ms/1gXgsZR
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66985415460517(And it may account/for my tendency to start/sentences with "and.)"11/14/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/66985415460/and-it-may-account-for-my-tendency-to-start-sentehttp://nyti.ms/1arOJNW
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56534571943443Each new bar found us/a bit drunker and sitting/closer together.7/26/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/56534571943/each-new-bar-found-us-a-bit-drunker-and-sitting-clhttp://nyti.ms/13gIgzt
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46843549563411I slugged two shots of/plum brandy: convinced we had/wandered back in time.4/1/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/46843549563/i-slugged-two-shots-of-plum-brandy-convinced-we-hhttp://nyti.ms/10d6gD9
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46843544891352It's hard to find your/bearings in the middle of/a cataclysm.4/1/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/46843544891/its-hard-to-find-your-bearings-in-the-middle-of-ahttp://nyti.ms/11SAf4c
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71774644858324This was an odd year:/one that feels like a prelude/to some grand changes.12/31/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/71774644858/this-was-an-odd-year-one-that-feels-like-a-preludhttp://nyti.ms/19bgQ1n
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77426922597298In the end: we all/practice a certain amount/of self-deception.2/21/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/77426922597/in-the-end-we-all-practice-a-certain-amount-of-sehttp://nyti.ms/1jSKBgR
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61423286396298Nobody's life feels/from the inside the way it/looks from the outside.9/16/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/61423286396/nobodys-life-feels-from-the-inside-the-way-it-loohttp://nyti.ms/185BXCd
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78894914283287Just because something/is inevitable does/not make it moral.3/7/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/78894914283/just-because-something-is-inevitable-does-not-makehttp://nyti.ms/1ia654l
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75424451819282I expect a lot/out of you: and you expect/a lot out of me.2/2/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/75424451819/i-expect-a-lot-out-of-you-and-you-expect-a-lot-ouhttp://nyti.ms/1k3dVhG
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80207460192275The disappointment/of a college rejection/is brief: but it's deep.3/20/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/80207460192/the-disappointment-of-a-college-rejection-is-briefhttp://nyti.ms/1lOUhqt
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57741735906274I used to be one/of those people who would walk/down the street reading.8/8/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/57741735906/i-used-to-be-one-of-those-people-who-would-walk-dohttp://nyti.ms/13H8dMz
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52306211435271"The best things in life/are free: the second best are/very expensive."6/6/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/52306211435/the-best-things-in-life-are-free-the-second-besthttp://nyti.ms/13lPXqk
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50764420511261Loneliness can be/divided into two types:/transient and chronic.5/18/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/50764420511/loneliness-can-be-divided-into-two-types-transienhttp://nyti.ms/10yMjF3
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74222638128259A wave of words rolled/in my chest and tumbled to/the tip of my tongue.1/22/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/74222638128/a-wave-of-words-rolled-in-my-chest-and-tumbled-tohttp://nyti.ms/19FAOH8
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73771667758259But now: finally:/I do understand about/the holes in her heart.1/18/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/73771667758/but-now-finally-i-do-understand-about-the-holeshttp://nyti.ms/1gCPMg8
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78869588628240Later: she wonders/if she merely dreamed of such/transcendent passion.3/7/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/78869588628/later-she-wonders-if-she-merely-dreamed-of-such-thttp://nyti.ms/1l2BcR2
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79914204012228Holding on to the/mistake continues to be/a bigger mistake.3/17/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/79914204012/holding-on-to-the-mistake-continues-to-be-a-biggerhttp://nyti.ms/1nsfN94
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72020504862210"Take pictures of my/pain and let the world know how/terrible it is."1/2/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/72020504862/take-pictures-of-my-pain-and-let-the-world-know-hhttp://nyti.ms/1dqJ64I
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75944617547202Seduction involves/elegance and has the goal/of pleasing others.2/7/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/75944617547/seduction-involves-elegance-and-has-the-goal-of-plhttp://nyti.ms/1iylqgl
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49780451043200Love appears to strike/us from the outside and we/cannot love at will.5/6/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/49780451043/love-appears-to-strike-us-from-the-outside-and-wehttp://nyti.ms/ZJXQ8F
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65061472916199Then it just becomes/a collection of words that/sound vaguely profound.10/25/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/65061472916/then-it-just-becomes-a-collection-of-words-that-sohttp://nyti.ms/HdFdDW
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73458585105193"I want to buy her/nice things: I want to make things/easier for her."1/15/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/73458585105/i-want-to-buy-her-nice-things-i-want-to-make-thihttp://nyti.ms/1eB6RYh
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71991095605192I'm going to take/this off: and you're going to/love me anyway.1/2/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/71991095605/im-going-to-take-this-off-and-youre-going-to-lohttp://nyti.ms/1cGAyqa
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76870997828191Words came out mushy/or incomplete: but with real/sparkle nonetheless.2/16/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/76870997828/words-came-out-mushy-or-incomplete-but-with-realhttp://nyti.ms/1g33atk
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72112945934191It is the faith in/the heart that makes a dead dream/worth resurrecting.1/3/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/72112945934/it-is-the-faith-in-the-heart-that-makes-a-dead-drehttp://nyti.ms/Klt1T5
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49184285280191You never forget/your first time: but the way you/recall it changes.4/29/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/49184285280/you-never-forget-your-first-time-but-the-way-youhttp://nyti.ms/13AcMWy
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69807400650188"There are going to/be some places in your life/where you feel bizarre."12/12/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/69807400650/there-are-going-to-be-some-places-in-your-life-whhttp://nyti.ms/1fltTSq
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77299287743187He loved the feeling/of free-fall; he loved being/alone in the sky.2/20/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/77299287743/he-loved-the-feeling-of-free-fall-he-loved-beinghttp://nyti.ms/1kSQYkn
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78055321331186And the novel needs/to keep changing if it is/to remain novel.2/27/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/78055321331/and-the-novel-needs-to-keep-changing-if-it-is-to-rhttp://nyti.ms/1fp6IcS
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67679042217186"I questioned myself/a lot: and I lost a lot/of faith in myself."11/21/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/67679042217/i-questioned-myself-a-lot-and-i-lost-a-lot-of-fahttp://nyti.ms/I3Yt7N
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67101694625186"The book is dying:/and we must do everything/we can to save it."11/15/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/67101694625/the-book-is-dying-and-we-must-do-everything-we-chttp://nyti.ms/HYHCSP
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72229949812185By the way: what does/a mirror look like when there's/no one in the room?1/4/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/72229949812/by-the-way-what-does-a-mirror-look-like-when-therhttp://nyti.ms/Kj9FxY
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69499049280185In the blur of her/city's crowded streets: she is/just another face.12/9/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/69499049280/in-the-blur-of-her-citys-crowded-streets-she-ishttp://nyti.ms/19ufv5B
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73888668712184Honestly: I feel/like I've been on the same path/my entire life.1/19/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/73888668712/honestly-i-feel-like-ive-been-on-the-same-path-mhttp://nyti.ms/K3e4Fi
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73227715586184I was terrified/that I was going to have/something to regret.1/13/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/73227715586/i-was-terrified-that-i-was-going-to-have-somethinghttp://nyti.ms/1iCl8Vj
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76372938776181I have decade-old/one-line emails from friends still/saved on my hard drive.2/11/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/76372938776/i-have-decade-old-one-line-emails-from-friends-stihttp://nyti.ms/1aPdNlq
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76899245893178"I like to present/works that raise more questions than/leave you with answers."2/16/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/76899245893/i-like-to-present-works-that-raise-more-questionshttp://nyti.ms/1b9O5sr
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69507532203178To have a pretty/little apartment with all/of your little things.12/9/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/69507532203/to-have-a-pretty-little-apartment-with-all-of-yourhttp://nyti.ms/IAa927
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69924748107177You don't want to cook:/but you can't bear the thought of/junk food and bad beer.12/13/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/69924748107/you-dont-want-to-cook-but-you-cant-bear-the-thohttp://nyti.ms/1kE4dAY
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80518840455176These adolescents/are still young enough to be/afraid of the dark.3/23/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/80518840455/these-adolescents-are-still-young-enough-to-be-afrhttp://nyti.ms/1lUksvV
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65807866981176"So many people/settle for what's safe and what/doesn't raise eyebrows."11/2/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/65807866981/so-many-people-settle-for-whats-safe-and-what-dohttp://nyti.ms/1dvKAd0
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77222864865172"But there's a way to/disagree without being/disagreeable."2/19/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/77222864865/but-theres-a-way-to-disagree-without-being-disaghttp://nyti.ms/1j2gSiq
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72814664980171This was what it meant/to go on living without/looking for answers.1/9/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/72814664980/this-was-what-it-meant-to-go-on-living-without-loohttp://nyti.ms/1giC6GQ
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46843029333171"As an engineer:/I'm sort of a student of/how things fall apart."4/1/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/46843029333/as-an-engineer-im-sort-of-a-student-of-how-thinhttp://nyti.ms/WXPYw3
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79280272251168An asylum can/be either a refuge or/a place of madness.3/11/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/79280272251/an-asylum-can-be-either-a-refuge-or-a-place-of-madhttp://nyti.ms/1dLbxef
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66016643740167"It turns out he was/unlike any other boy/I had ever met."11/4/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/66016643740/it-turns-out-he-was-unlike-any-other-boy-i-had-evhttp://nyti.ms/1iAZwqA
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48780008591165And as the stage and/the world turn: you're expected/to keep on dancing.4/24/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/48780008591/and-as-the-stage-and-the-world-turn-youre-expecthttp://nyti.ms/15EMZkd
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76550903737162We smoked a lot of/cigarettes together and/talked about this thing.2/13/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/76550903737/we-smoked-a-lot-of-cigarettes-together-and-talkedhttp://nyti.ms/1m9vKjF
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71871601241162What if I wanted/that old book smell on my hands/from that place uptown?1/1/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/71871601241/what-if-i-wanted-that-old-book-smell-on-my-hands-fhttp://nyti.ms/1cgdFbU
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57081911991162"Spend time with people/who tell you what you can do:/not what you can't do."8/1/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/57081911991/spend-time-with-people-who-tell-you-what-you-canhttp://nyti.ms/14e4WXE
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48123145874158But we are British:/so most of us stood around/in awkward silence.4/16/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/48123145874/but-we-are-british-so-most-of-us-stood-around-inhttp://nyti.ms/XOUu5m
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73662592739157When he leaves: you're glad/to be slipping back into/your own boring life.1/17/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/73662592739/when-he-leaves-youre-glad-to-be-slipping-back-inhttp://nyti.ms/K3aKtX
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54135299413157Is there a middle/ground between doing too much/and doing nothing?6/28/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/54135299413/is-there-a-middle-ground-between-doing-too-much-anhttp://nyti.ms/10p5gOW
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54115910437157There is no next week:/I texted back: there is now/and there is never.6/28/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/54115910437/there-is-no-next-week-i-texted-back-there-is-nowhttp://nyti.ms/11NcDk9
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71250703375156Leave her alone in/a thunderstorm: and she may/fall into despair.12/26/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/71250703375/leave-her-alone-in-a-thunderstorm-and-she-may-falhttp://nyti.ms/1erCA0t
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66042459022156"I'm pretty sure I/want to make music till I/can't breathe anymore."11/4/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/66042459022/im-pretty-sure-i-want-to-make-music-till-i-canthttp://nyti.ms/1hFBgWL
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77827051371155There are many ways/to map the brain and many/kinds of brains to map.2/25/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/77827051371/there-are-many-ways-to-map-the-brain-and-many-kindhttp://nyti.ms/MVYi0x
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61797544750154Yeah: I enjoyed it/but I wished I enjoyed it/a little bit more.9/20/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/61797544750/yeah-i-enjoyed-it-but-i-wished-i-enjoyed-it-a-lithttp://nyti.ms/18bTOYl
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73534261945153It is a vital/biological function:/not a waste of time.1/16/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/73534261945/it-is-a-vital-biological-function-not-a-waste-ofhttp://nyti.ms/19vjLrb
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78491342564151"It allowed us to/discover where and when we/are in the cosmos."3/3/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/78491342564/it-allowed-us-to-discover-where-and-when-we-are-ihttp://nyti.ms/1c1zNtX
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74195178320150She holds nothing back:/which is the best way to be/in this kind of work.1/22/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/74195178320/she-holds-nothing-back-which-is-the-best-way-to-bhttp://nyti.ms/1aCbf89
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61872334137150It is a minefield/of feelings and a place we/may not want to go.9/21/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/61872334137/it-is-a-minefield-of-feelings-and-a-place-we-may-nhttp://nyti.ms/15F7Bbf
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47718282223149It's not like she's this/lightweight beautiful person/in fancy outfits.4/11/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/47718282223/its-not-like-shes-this-lightweight-beautiful-perhttp://nyti.ms/16JNw06
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79305556420146I want to create/something that people might want/to hang in their house.3/11/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/79305556420/i-want-to-create-something-that-people-might-wanthttp://nyti.ms/1iufYyz
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71033425744145I enjoyed writing/about a moment: but not/about a process.12/24/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/71033425744/i-enjoyed-writing-about-a-moment-but-not-about-ahttp://nyti.ms/Jm2PXI
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49195561114145Archivists are the/specialists who snatch objects/from oblivion.4/29/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/49195561114/archivists-are-the-specialists-who-snatch-objectshttp://nyti.ms/11vpLae
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74085651833144The tradition of/the colorful pants began/as an accident.1/21/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/74085651833/the-tradition-of-the-colorful-pants-began-as-an-achttp://nyti.ms/1el90ql
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77751081401143But even the most/flint-eyed economist has/a romantic side.2/24/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/77751081401/but-even-the-most-flint-eyed-economist-has-a-romanhttp://nyti.ms/1h67ppM
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80593948840141The Internet is/emotionally a very/flat experience.3/24/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/80593948840/the-internet-is-emotionally-a-very-flat-experiencehttp://nyti.ms/1ggnf21
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70108981041141Many people have/been lost; more keep arriving/to dance in their place.12/15/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/70108981041/many-people-have-been-lost-more-keep-arriving-tohttp://nyti.ms/1e8N4ll
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56988976624141"I was innocent/when I started: and I was/filthy afterward."7/31/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/56988976624/i-was-innocent-when-i-started-and-i-was-filthy-ahttp://nyti.ms/1ckzrM8
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74113773275140I came to this world/naked and will leave this world/with a clean conscience.1/21/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/74113773275/i-came-to-this-world-naked-and-will-leave-this-worhttp://nyti.ms/1mjU3Gq
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62101816144140Are you a force to/be reckoned with: or a farce/to be reckoned with?9/23/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/62101816144/are-you-a-force-to-be-reckoned-with-or-a-farce-tohttp://nyti.ms/1eBvwgH
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47459453721139Writing not only/plays fast and loose with the past;/it hijacks the past.4/8/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/47459453721/writing-not-only-plays-fast-and-loose-with-the-pashttp://nyti.ms/Y2nTbw
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76243627105138Make enough money/so that wherever that is:/you can fly me there.2/10/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/76243627105/make-enough-money-so-that-wherever-that-is-you-cahttp://nyti.ms/1ime1A2
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46843467889138He has a mind as/fascinating to me as/the city itself.4/1/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/46843467889/he-has-a-mind-as-fascinating-to-me-as-the-city-itshttp://nyti.ms/YrMa9q
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80110595158137What I love so much/about crosswords is that they/ask something of you.3/19/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/80110595158/what-i-love-so-much-about-crosswords-is-that-theyhttp://nyti.ms/1meJB7v
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72576544039137The role of a pet/is to be relentlessly/anthropomorphized.1/7/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/72576544039/the-role-of-a-pet-is-to-be-relentlessly-anthropomohttp://nyti.ms/1f8N2KP
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57537324460137There must be even/a moment: however brief:/when you cease to be.8/6/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/57537324460/there-must-be-even-a-moment-however-brief-when-yhttp://nyti.ms/192rMTU
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46895619699137As a leftover:/the soup was equally good/without the croutons.4/1/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/46895619699/as-a-leftover-the-soup-was-equally-good-without-thttp://nyti.ms/Xp1PHG
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63572687425136As a child: she sees/things she will not understand/until much later.10/9/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/63572687425/as-a-child-she-sees-things-she-will-not-understanhttp://nyti.ms/1fb83Da
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79000116506135They kicked open the/door to her small one room hut/and found her hanging.3/8/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/79000116506/they-kicked-open-the-door-to-her-small-one-room-huhttp://nyti.ms/1ifUHIO
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70950187150135I'm older and more/experienced now: and I/could write it better.12/23/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/70950187150/im-older-and-more-experienced-now-and-i-could-wrhttp://nyti.ms/1dTxLIO
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56729912867133Alice lives out of/a backpack and doesn't care/if she loses it.7/28/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/56729912867/alice-lives-out-of-a-backpack-and-doesnt-care-ifhttp://nyti.ms/19k8FDQ
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80823086411132But there isn't much/Netflix can do to address/that disappointment.3/26/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/80823086411/but-there-isnt-much-netflix-can-do-to-address-thahttp://nyti.ms/1doES0h
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56555355773132He says that he will/sail till the end of the world/and one day longer.7/26/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/56555355773/he-says-that-he-will-sail-till-the-end-of-the-worlhttp://nyti.ms/15k0gfB
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79887167422131Don't let the machine/and don't let technology/take you from this earth.3/17/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/79887167422/dont-let-the-machine-and-dont-let-technology-takhttp://nyti.ms/1mb6ecQ
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79597129024130But you still really/don't know what you're going to/see when you get there.3/14/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/79597129024/but-you-still-really-dont-know-what-youre-goinghttp://nyti.ms/1nO6RYl
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64722032802130We have become a/society that totes hot/liquids everywhere.10/21/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/64722032802/we-have-become-a-society-that-totes-hot-liquids-evhttp://nyti.ms/17ShEq2
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55357138143129I mean I have whole/relationships that mostly/exist through e-mail.7/13/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/55357138143/i-mean-i-have-whole-relationships-that-mostly-exishttp://nyti.ms/12uCFo0
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51593160057129They shot each other:/wounded each other: and then/became friends for life.5/28/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/51593160057/they-shot-each-other-wounded-each-other-and-thenhttp://nyti.ms/114fPDL
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55529514420128Nothing like starting/the day on the wrong foot by/wearing the wrong bra.7/15/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/55529514420/nothing-like-starting-the-day-on-the-wrong-foot-byhttp://nyti.ms/12JT2Ox
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80490325039127Come back to the land/of chess-piece perfection and/ask yourself: what next?3/23/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/80490325039/come-back-to-the-land-of-chess-piece-perfection-anhttp://nyti.ms/1l8i8UJ
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69611488082127But say the wrong thing/and she turns fierce: letting the/four-letter words fly.12/10/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/69611488082/but-say-the-wrong-thing-and-she-turns-fierce-letthttp://nyti.ms/19ufv5B
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61038876011127Then wine took over:/leaving little shelf space for/the vodka and Scotch.9/12/2013http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/61038876011/then-wine-took-over-leaving-little-shelf-space-fohttp://nyti.ms/189LOuA
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79700440113126And we will sit at/a table: taking tea and/eating some brownies.3/15/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/79700440113/and-we-will-sit-at-a-table-taking-tea-and-eatinghttp://nyti.ms/1kn6FOp
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77529717624126To observe the rules/was to be good: and to be/good was to be loved.2/22/2014http://haiku.nytimes.com/post/77529717624/to-observe-the-rules-was-to-be-good-and-to-be-goohttp://nyti.ms/1gY0Jd7