1940 6 5
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There are glasses in the sinkfrom the water that I drink.And the books in my li-braryare not dumb and ordinary.There's a doggie at my door;did I go to the pet store?There's a puppy on my couch-ywho was happy, now she's grouchy.Was a writer, now an authoror an otter; no, an…
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19401211
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Call him a hobo or homeless or bum or junkie.
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193950
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How many of them, I'm wondering, are just going through the motions until the power goes out and never comes back on again? They've got to know the Americans will never let the city fall to the færies.
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193966
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4. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
> > (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
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1939169
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homelessness, you called the lie,
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19391511
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There was nothing to do but dream ourselves forward. Nothing to do but not die.
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193912
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Crea grew up above a pet store and now she dreams of cats. There are too many of them to name, a slinking mess of calico, tabby, tortoise-shell, black and white. There are more each night. They whisper to her, words made of hissing mewls. During the…
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193850
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“No, dad, I've never seen urine colored pearls.”
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193882
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Four in the morning. I was awake because I'm always awake. There were little fog-halos around the streetlights.
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1938118
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They are always there. Stoic and steady.
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193831
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193812
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In his dreams, he swam in piles of pills. Sometimes the piles were infinite, other times the were contained, tonight the pills were intense shiny reds, chalky yellows, deep blues and matte purples and swirled around in a children's inflatable castle. Derek swam happily,…
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193810
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193862
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Did you take out the trash? Did you water the ficus? Did you cancel the cable? Did you take my black sweater? Did you tell the neighbors? Will you get the friends? What about the cat? Will you send me a Christmas card? Will I tear it up? Did you know…
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19381211
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Everything would've been copasetic except about the time we got down there they put the turkey in the fryer..
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193811
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For a fleeting moment, eyes seemed to clear and the man spoke as if he were coming out of the pea soup fog that formed over the lake on spring mornings.
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19381615
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The dancer was a little chubby, but I didn't mind. It gave her more to shake.
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193791
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I've come to the Playboy Mansion on a mission of mercy. Hugh Hefner, my good buddy, has just lost two girlfriends in a single day!
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193721
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Beard of Bees
My father always used to say to me, he said "Son" (he called me son) "Son. Falling in love is easy. Getting into the Guinness Book of World Records is hard".
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193711
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They say ehmand for almond in the San Joaquin Valley.
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193754
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Click-clack, click-clack. The cadence of the tracks below push George back and forth between what happened and what is to come.
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193711
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Steve Bancroft’s future wife showed up at his door that same night, slamming her hand loudly against the door and shouting for him. “Steve, Steve, wake up. Damn it, come on. You forgot to pick me up at the airport. Who are you in there with? I said wa
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193721
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One night the woman went down in the
basement, grabbed an electric drill, and let the voices out in eight places.
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1937278
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They discovered the baby in the grass, under the snapping cotton sheets.
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19372512
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...fancy the idea of tapas, Spain an' all.
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1936149
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Maybe all quarterbacks are shitwads.
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19362016
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The custard of eternity is scooped into
the quantum cone of knowledge and drips
out the bottom one lifetime at a time.
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193680
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“You always use that as a crutch. You, a sixteen year old girl. The way you were…” She looked at me, shaking her head, looking at my body as if remembering some wrong, some thing that should not have been.
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19361315
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Somewhere a banjo, somewhere a hound.
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193601
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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…
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