| 832  3  0   
 | so i slather cortizone on the bite marks of my experiences | 
		
		
			| 2137  3  3   
 | Two friends follow the train tracks by their neighborhood. | 
		
		
			| 1415  3  0   
 | The Snowman grinned malevolently as the Sugar Plum fairies shook in their tiny powdered boots."Santa has one more hour and then you're all marshmallow toasts!" the Snowman said. He laughed and he laughed. His evil plan? He wanted the key to time delivered to him personally… | 
		
		
			| 1086  3  2   
 | We continue,/Held beyond all surface
Liking it still/And each other/Often surprised:/Like finding garden flowers/No one planted/In summer bloom | 
		
		
			| 1117  3  3   
 | Cliffhanger Notes 
Sexpot 
Bunched Panties 
Cereal Killer 
Hello Kitty Litter 
Canoodle 	
Named 
Anonymous Clock 
The Lizard of Oz 
Luke Warm and the Cold Zippers 	
Megaschnauzer 
Truffle-Snuffers 
Pork-Pie Hats 
Helium Chipmunks 
Tender Is  | 
		
		
			| 1050  3  2   
 | Bradley turns out to be a walking red flag. He approaches as I unload the U-Haul and says, "Hi, I'm Bradley. I'm not very modest so you might see me from time to time in various stages of undress." Bradley is the last man on Earth I wish to see undressed. | 
		
		
			| 1151  3  1   
 | The white and yellow are sublime and desperately powerful, like angry screaming over tears and through laughter or hatred. Maybe the words are about crying or laughing, but the expressions are altogether impenetrable and distant. The jokes told behind the teeth and through… | 
		
		
			| 1447  3  1   
 | Fat robins are chirping – 
loudly – at 4 a.m. 
They’re trying to delude 
the worms into thinking it’s 
dawn already 
The worms get up underground 
They’re grumpy, they 
bump into things 
They come up to the surface 
and Wham! That | 
		
		
			| 1516  3  1   
 | He wiped it with a damp cloth. He set it in a glazed clay pot next to the sofa and admired its scrawny handsomeness. | 
		
		
			| 1591  3  3   
 | She went up first, I followed, a respectful three paces behind. Now, I know what you’re thinking: I was perfectly placed to steal a quick, if innocent, glance, and she would never see. The house is a center hall colonial, and there are no mirrors on the s | 
		
		
			| 1119  3  0   
 | Walking east, he pauses,
Picks a cassava,
Cleaves the melon in two;
He tears juicy chunks 
Of flesh to cleanse the blade. | 
		
		
			| 1153  3  2   
 | There was no hope for the writing desk. Even if it had not been for the splintered leg held together only by duct tape, there was no way Ron could have fit into the back of the station wagon with the rest of the luggage. He asked the Mexicans across the s | 
		
		
			| 1243  3  1   
 | “Don’t do this Jack. You are better than this.” He pleaded. My lips curled, “Maybe I am, but you’re not.” I spat. I lifted up his delicate frame and threw him back against the wall of his office. I watched as his head bounced off the decorative brick | 
		
		
			| 1045  3  3   
 | “Mirela,” I said.  “Mirela, Mirela, Mirela.” I must have told him a hundred times, no  exaggeration.    “What  the hell kind of name is that?”    I  ignored him, lit a smoke and watched a group of teenage girls as they laughed  their way… | 
		
		
			| 822  3  1   
 | “Price has gone up,” Jim said.  His head and his body were still, like a deer’s when it hears something.  “It’s three cents a bale now.”
 | 
		
		
			| 1146  3  2   
 |             The strangers say hi at the Piggly  Wiggly grocery stores, compliment my gold necklace, tell me I'm as beautiful as  a Southern Belle, ask where I got my Gucci shoes. “Wow, New… | 
		
		
			| 732  3  2   
 | My wife’s got dangerously good 
Peripheral vision 
She can see things so far to the side 
That I’m almost certain she can see things behind her 
And I’m sure she can see things that happened yesterday 
But the thing that scares me the most 
She  | 
		
		
			| 1851  3  0   
 |  | 
		
		
			| 1256  3  2   
 | I’m glad they put the wall up. When it gets a little humid around here, I can smell those damn people. | 
		
		
			| 1181  3  2   
 | I spent the evening looking at our old pictures. / 
We were never happy. I realize that now.  | 
		
		
			| 1074  3  3   
 | I am from slow diagnoses, impatience and parents skeptical of New York City doctors. I am from tall buildings, yogurt shakes, and envy for my brother's asthma machine. I am from here, stay away from there, don't get too close, be careful at the edge, the… | 
		
		
			| 1202  3  0   
 | He's got a rager for Casablanca, the old Bogart and Bergman classic.  I can't snap him out of it. | 
		
		
			| 1338  3  2   
 | It's a tunnel, you know, like the neck of a bottle, the tunnel the hair comes up, it's coming out soon, I'm an adolescent now, dammit. | 
		
		
			| 1307  3  0   
 | Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings. | 
		
		
			| 1099  3  2   
 | The coach told the player, number 21, to stand in front of  the net in order to distract the opposing team's goaltender and to block the  view, to 'screen' him as it were. 21 did so, and did it well. There were defensemen that gave him  much trouble by hitting his legs and… | 
		
		
			| 1155  3  3   
 | a midge smothered
in the light of disarray
crawls back into the sage | 
		
		
			| 1257  3  1   
 | A friend of mine died and went to heaven. At least I thought he went to heaven. I mean Freddie wasn’t such a bad guy and if he had any faults they were mild peculiarities. Like his girl watching. He was a champion girl watcher. Even in this a | 
		
		
			| 1253  3  2   
 | Natty looking 
in his 2-tone shoes 
and argyle socks 
blue blazer 
with 3 gold buttons 
on each cuff 
pale yellow 
hemp or burlap 
necktie, of course 
with a blue shirt 
(never white!!) 
long mopish hair 
hanging on his forehead 
and a  | 
		
		
			| 1872  3  4   
 | I’m going to stop there, before the darkness sets in.
 | 
		
		
			| 1111  3  3   
 | I'm the first child she ever knew that couldn't sing. |