The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.
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The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night.
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He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the barest traces of what had once been a life. His body was like a dilapidated old house from which all furniture and fixtures have been removed and which awaited now only its final demolition.
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The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.
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gleaming like a searchlight, Iowa moon, silver plate.
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Hung in the air like fart gas in an elevator, insecurity in a prom ballroom, guilt around a police lineup.
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Gasps erupted from his nostrils like grouse from a thicket, schoolboys onto a recess yard, grease spatters from frying bacon.
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Whacked away under the desk like hail on a barn roof.
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Divided like boys and girls at a summer camp, egg whites and yolks in grandma’s lemon-meringue-pie recipe, dogs and cats in pet heaven.
Dennis VickersStudied all year and wrote in my journal like a nun works a Rosary, dog with a new bone, bee in his hive’s back room.
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