2118 13 12
|
They confess love for Karaoke and metal rock. They have purchased expensive Stratocasters and Zildjians.
|
2049 13 11
|
When she opens the door, I say hi and introduce her to my friend, a bottle of J.T.S. Brown. She laughs and tells me to come on in before I fall down.
|
1245 13 12
|
The little Lady and I drove down to New Orleans to take in the Mardi Gras festivities we’d read so much about.
|
1656 13 12
|
The service was a disaster. The Protestants bobbed up and down. They didn't know when to stand, when to sit. I
|
1811 13 8
|
A lifeboat came by in the night,
And I finally saw we were sinking.
|
2164 13 13
|
He stays a couple of yards behind me as we slog uphill. I try to diffuse the tension with a coy toss of head, slip on wet leaves. My ankle rolls and I splat noisily down. From my new angle his beard looks less stylish—bristles straggle all up his neck. He maintains…
|
1513 13 9
|
rheumy eyes wink, gnarled hands pantomime
|
3193 13 7
|
Occupy Wall Street protestors in Boston complained that homeless people had taken coats, blankets and food donated to the fight against income inequality. “They don’t bring anything to the table,” said a spokesman at the information tent.
|
1253 13 10
|
The man who makes the noose
|
1234 13 8
|
my stomach is empty, but it is my eyes that are hungry
|
1135 13 6
|
I learned He was a Schmuck when, on/
the mountaintop, with Abraham,/
I waited on His call: one Isaac, neat.
|
2499 13 3
|
We lived in a Holiday Inn trying not to be depressed that life had turned out to be so much like Eastenders, trying not to acknowledge that the thrill we’d got out of each other was the thrill of giving in to the wrong thing. We had more sex than ever b
|
1986 13 12
|
Let’s talk about Chattanooga, the cloud / mountains, the monastery bench, drunk / at sunset
|
2191 13 13
|
Go ahead, boy, pout like a fool.
|
2870 13 5
|
I'm somewhere on I-10 in Mississippi, barreling westbound at 80 miles an hour through a rainstorm on a late Wednesday afternoon. The last road sign I remember was for Beauvoir, some Confederate general's…
|
1483 13 8
|
Instead, we found his red-inked list of boys who would never be saved,
|
1716 13 7
|
Can we survive our Y chromosome?
|
3704 13 8
|
... honestly, the dishes were just tired. Too few in number and washed too often, they dreamed of an escape -- any escape, really -- from the endless cycle of hot water and being racked together to dry ...
|
1535 13 10
|
This time the bag's bigger/than the boy and the door.
|
1381 13 9
|
one season slips into another
|
1940 13 10
|
He'd tend the door himself in high lace up boots, orange rhinestone hot pants, a tight black t-shirt, and black boa with orange swirl.
|
1882 13 5
|
The javelin was cancelled after the unfortunate incident with Mrs Parker last year, but no one could have predicted this year’s sack race tragedy.
|
1455 13 6
|
April spit its greeting, toe to head.
|
2040 13 12
|
But by day the birds / of prey were in control.
|
1652 13 12
|
Forty years later he was still her Romeo, she his Juliet.
|
1272 13 3
|
I'm available most weekends.
|
1125 13 9
|
I'm complex. You're complex. We're all complex.Who gives a shit? Man's fallen and he can't get up.I consulted Jacques the Atheist for advice: he toldme to beat it. "But I lack the proper stigma!" I cried.Once a month, I volunteer at the dressage parlor.On Tuesdays, I…
|
3168 13 10
|
Eve is eating a plum. The plum is cold and how it got cold is sort of a mystery, but there are mysteries everywhere and the cold juice on her face doesn't really incline her to worry much about mysteries.
|
5536 13 8
|
"Life's Little Instruction Book." There are some words of wisdom here that I plan to ignore.
|
2435 13 10
|
And here you are. Before your time. Behind the glass.
|