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When we say "Nanoism is looking for twitter-fiction serials for its current contest," this is one example of what we mean.
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We make our way into the Colosseum–excuse me, the Prince Spaghetti Colosseum–and take in the beauty of Italy’s national pastime; sadistic cruelty to wacko religious cults.
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I tell people that we leave out food for the creatures to appease the skunk gods.
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I realize that to say, "I do not believe in God" is footsteps away from "I do not rely on God" and "God left me."
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The sign that informs tourists that there is
no access to the Hollywood Sign is the
most ignored sign in all of Los Angeles.
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Eric was born with three testicles.
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// opening act: van featuring balloon featuring drugs
// headliner: lubv ya babe
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"covered in a sheen of sweat, flowers of salt bloom on my T-shirt"
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the last, best//
analgesic--/
guaranteed
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It’s not every day that a girl like me gets greeted with a hairy beast that orgles and spits when excited. Didn’t help none that it only had one eye. Poor little ole bugger.
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If opposites attract, that might explain it, Doreen and I. Conjugally blissed through thick and thin. Forty some odd years. Since June of sixty five.
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We argue on the way down. We bicker on the walk to the bistro. I get coffee and croissants at the bar and bring them back to our table, and she is still talking, proving me wrong, when I return.
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When my mother called to tell me what had happened with Francine, she was crying. The minute Francine left, my mother understood that woman had bamboozled her. We got on the next jet down to L.A. and rented a car. Gina and I drove all the way out past Ont
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I find Vermeer and Bach and feel/
for a moment a shower of my own world’s/
prismatics.
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each act of creation is a jolt of expectation
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with cool confidence
and believable body language
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Our local low rent ice-based superhero said he’d had enough and would check back in early spring.
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on this scenic route you will likely encounter a handful of bicycle spoke lobster traps.
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Grey would rather be in the trees or down by the river. When a wind comes up, he grabs the wooly blanket from the hook in the barn and calls Phoebe. They stretch the blanket out between them and sail into the grassy meadow that slopes down the hill from t
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Well, it's midnight and here I am drinking alone at the Stick It Inn, watching the clock because that cute, brunette waitress with the home wrecker tits, Julie, is working again, thank ya, Jesus, and she just came over and murmured she'd be off at one and come over and…
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With the whole bizarre crowd surrounding us like birds on shit covered cliffs, offering up a bowl full of choppy seas to the many bored and stuffed sky gods, we danced our way into all their hard shell covered hearts as one thing. Still they never knew our hiding …
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screw everything, youth is plinko
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He introduced me to key lime pie, and for this alone I would have loved him forever. It was an innocent time for me, and I was easy to please.
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Humanity comes without a choice
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We honor fierce, quick, cunning/
thought-in-action types
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i was jus countin' your heartbeats, Emmie
and you know what?
i think they's the same as mine!
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