1970 15 13
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Solitude is such an excellent alternative to suicide.
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1970 2 2
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“I can’t remember if it goes in or out,” was the reply.
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1970 6 2
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It was already 3:30 PM. Where had all the time gone? Linda looked up from her computer monitor over at Carlos, who had his face intently pointed at his. "We have to go soon," she said. "We want to avoid rush hour traffic.""Where did we put the address?" Carlos answered, not…
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1970 12 4
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was yesterday’s dawn breaking in the high sky/ meant for us?
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1970 18 13
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The young man is back again, solo,
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1970 0 0
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I found my patch by accident whilst out picking medicinals ta cover a load o' dead constrictors. I tested the patch in the traditional way an' got a bit stoned on jes' a nibble o' a fresh sprout. Course, everyone knows the sprouts 're more concentrated t
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1970 2 1
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If you know how, all bodies can be read like books, like poems, like scraps of song
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1970 3 2
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One day my mother's lover shaved his beard and legs. Said he couldn’t fit into his tight jeans anymore.
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1970 17 8
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Mama loves birds but is afraid to fly.
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1970 18 4
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At night, I fold your name in origami doves and blow, hard, and you are disassembled come morning.
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1969 0 0
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By the time I learned how much I loved my family, I was 3 years and eight-hundred miles away from them
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1969 2 3
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It's blues, bars and boots since you went away. You were wiferustled like sheep, like cattle.
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1969 15 12
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Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
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1969 6 3
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I often thought about touching those slippery flames between my thumb and index finger.
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1969 0 0
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"I didn’t take my mother’s denial of my dream lightly. I wanted it desperately. I cried and pleaded, nagged and begged. On several occasions, I temperamentally got out of the car at a stop sign and walked. Once, my mother said that I was nagging her so mu
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1969 2 2
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"Don't fuss, hon. I just lick it off like tequila."
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1969 18 8
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I always step around his mess...
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1969 0 0
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1968 16 15
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One by one I lost my desires.
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1968 6 3
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They’ve thrown the painter in the trash upside down with his red pajamas and feet sticking up in the air, with his shoes on. The large red hand of judgement pointing at him, that gives us direction and law and shame, gives us a large red headache.
Whi
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1968 14 12
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Then I heard it -- a sound like an oboe being strangled. Teeny was farting onto the cement stoop through her jeans, a tripple flutter blast.
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1968 11 8
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Everyone at the Bermudez Brothers Combined Shows and Circus held one low opinion or another about Jimmy Dubcek.
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1968 0 0
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As Mayumi ran toward the battle, she watched helicopters over the giant centipede explode and rain down on the street below. Lightning bolts, fireballs, and water balls that burst into rain, littered the skies.
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1967 1 0
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I’ve been here before.
it wasn’t you though—
it was her before you,
and then she before her …
before you.
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1967 17 6
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Tasha loved to tease the rain. She sat still with her legs folded on the bench, never once looking the clouds in the eye.
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1967 11 12
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...even unbelieving prayer
muttered with quiet resigned breaths
can not foretell or forestall stains...
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1967 11 10
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In San Francisco, there rides at night a phantom streetcar whose driver is none other than Walt Whitman . . .
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1967 8 6
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...I stared at my good dog with the same entreaty I saw in her eyes. Save us. Please.
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1967 7 2
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I can't even tell you when it all started to come apart, but I do know that they're just nervous tics, responses to stress. We all go through it.The fact is I wouldn't even be bringing up any of this if it wasn't for the fact of the… incident… Shit, I know I wasn't…
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1967 4 2
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August 14, 1945.Vincent had kissed a lot of girls before then - and a lot of women after. But there had never been a kiss like that one. And because of that photo apparently the whole country, damned near the whole world, thought so too.He'd tried to get her…
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