1400 4 2
|
{A} So I think maybe I am a robot. If I was a robot, I would do lewd things, metallic (cold, hard, shiny, heavy, malleable, loud, acrid, industrial, immovable, unstoppable) things. I would do the things I do in my dark powerless dreams. People would understand and…
|
14003111
|
They all looked for Vic's leg after the accident.
|
140001
|
“Don’t you wish it always ended that way? The right people fall in love? Romance leads to marriage? God, that was a great movie.”
|
140042
|
Flush, a sputter, and the water level rises, slowly. Flush again.
|
139994
|
Three hours isn't that long.
|
13991714
|
Tan my hide. Feed me to rabid / macaques.
|
139901
|
They drifted for months, locked between the vast merciless blue and the withering sun. Their faces blistered and their minds bleached and weary. They conspired in the shadows, drew plans in the sawdust, they grew confident and…
|
1399119
|
oh, sure i’m still running around like a heads-up/off/prophet/profit/fit trying to cut off my very own de/(con)instruction and all other sordid a•void•able & available /a-Babel-Trumpish towers of post & toastmodern doom/daze/haze
|
139921
|
[ADVERTISEMENT: If you look for it, Google search, for 'html special characters,' the UT Austin page will come up, and you can just Cut & Paste 'em. Fuck the code!]
|
139972
|
leaning over the banister, her Christmas waist making the wood swoon and creak, a warning sign if there ever was one...
|
13993018
|
I dreamed that coffee grounds had spilled on my Buffet. There was another clarinet, a silver one, that belonged to a man not in the room, that was clean of debris.
|
139998
|
The stand is designed to clasp two guitars, one on either side. She cradles an Ovation in her arms, a guitar variety our high school friends used to call a soup bowl. In the stand is an acoustic-electric hybrid that I toyed with for ten…
|
139900
|
The man in the gray trench coat showed up around a quarter to eight.
|
139900
|
The desk calendar was brilliant, unused. The problems with it didn't begin until March.
|
1399105
|
|
139800
|
No way was Robert actually surprised that hewas competitive with himself, but there was something way more concrete about this. Instead of hand wringing, there was someone, Bob, that he could punch.
|
139896
|
I have always admired flat-chested women.
|
1398148
|
hunting after dark,/
in the quiet they seemed to appear/ with every new poem I read, each new workshop, some hunting carried on/ by both animals.
|
139800
|
Was he really a Secret Service guy? No time to think now! Quick as lightning, Rachel bounded over the sleeping matron and sprinted up the aisle.
|
1398118
|
They are always there. Stoic and steady.
|
1398177
|
After not going out for weeks, I went to a bar and met an electrical engineer, a motorcycle racer who raced in the Black Hills, a Renaissance man, in a relationship with a young married woman, and I told him about the toad.
|
13981916
|
My wife thinks I should be committed.
|
139832
|
I want to talk like Rose Tyler, and be whisked away by the strapping Docor, preferably in David Tennant form.
|
13981111
|
It’s like faith. My battle buddy is out there, I know it, but I can’t see him, nor can I hear him. I just know he’s there, trusting he’ll do what he’s supposed to do, and he’s trusting in me.
|
1398128
|
"Everything except food and sex."
|
139744
|
|
13971817
|
Buddy was in a garage band. They were pretty good. “Soul Harbor“ they called themselves.
|
139720
|
Nothing more savory than gossip relayed in confidential tones.
|
13972012
|
burnt-up leaves rustle and fall
|
139753
|
The thing was, though, she couldn’t shake the image of that dead dog she had found inside the black trash bag she thought could be first base, right before the twins said, Screw the game, let’s swing.
|
