1201 3 1
|
One of Montejo's captains has us drilling in the rain again. The sun hasn't shone for days and the air is stifling, like trying to breath under water. Everything looks gray except the palms. Each green leaf droops in the rain like a…
|
2141710
|
Whenever my mother’s will-to-live wavered and her hand reached out for the electric fence, my ash would whisper, “Live, live.”
|
105111
|
Everybody knew the McDonald’s at the Waterfront was selling theraflu stamp bags, and I guess I’d heard how bad it was for you—they’d had reports of dumbasses ODing on channel 2, 4, and 11—but it was a lot stronger than regular heroin and a lot cheaper...
|
145476
|
Now, the Midwest was ashes. The oceans were covered with hydroponics plant growth.
|
103610
|
Floating along the ebbs of the ocean,toward the horizon, where time has no say,an end that will never be reached.
|
113363
|
Day by day people went missing. Reports of the ads being answered with a robocall solution to their problems were at first unconfirmed. Yesterday my best friend told me his emotional distress call was going to be channeled into a free trip to what he call
|
29222
|
O most disconsolate ashtray, you are not politically correct, it's a conspiracy I suspect. O most disconsolate ashtray, how I long to see your smoke arise, suspended in my eyes, now you have nothing left to do but sit there in a smokeless …
|
206331
|
Got a home repair question? Ask Mr. Fix-It! He usually knows the answer, and if not, your problem isn’t worth fixing.
|
97841
|
A woman I work with is always going on about her daughter is an expert water-skier and has a collection of antique thimbles and makes prize-winning congo bars.
|
126562
|
Your usage of the English language / is awkward and passé—
|
64621
|
He wore a jacket with just
a letter; by this conspicuous reserve
he hoped to show the others it didn’t matter what you did
last year, only who you hit in the here and now, and how hard.
|
120422
|
No one is a Puritan under all that powder!
|
104496
|
so here we all are/
deep in debt
|
1252149
|
I assemble myself daily//
from the ready-mades/
of a fast talking world,
|
12651210
|
We can’t be sure. Perhaps it is/
some slight exaggeration of one/
or several elements that steals our breath.
|
131694
|
This guy struts and never walks, and while doing so he reads and sends text messages and emails from his smart phone and so never walks in a straight line.
|
3385322
|
Assholes are assholes
who do asshole things.
|
120993
|
|
108643
|
A convoy of military vehicles is heading into the city as we are heading out.
|
140295
|
Uzma accepts my invitation for dinner.
|
130165
|
I'm in love with Uzma Goef, a beautiful young woman less than half my age.
|
1283144
|
|
1398168
|
Her clothing style varies from grunge to glamor and . . . she always looks good.
|
128353
|
Don reports everything to Uzma and Rasheed, I'm aware of that. It doesn't bother me. I'm not hiding anything from them or anyone else.
|
1278137
|
Don and I return to Rasheed's room on the top floor of the middle house where Uzma sits waiting to speak her piece. I'm feeling blessed listening to their enthusiastic chatter. It's like the world is opening up to me again, allowing me to experience a rush of…
|
116054
|
Luv walks around touching everything with her little hands. Uzma follows behind her, talking sweetly, saying: "This is going to be your new home for a while, darling."
|
121754
|
Uzma dashes up the stairs ahead of me . . .
|
1267115
|
In the darkness, as I awaken, an orange glowing 3:45 greets me . . .
|
1336126
|
"Every generation is a new generation, isn't it? What's so different about your generation?"
|
125765
|
I'm fascinated by Don's evolution . . .
|
