1783 2 2
|
"Don't fuss, hon. I just lick it off like tequila."
|
17831813
|
The young man is back again, solo,
|
178399
|
They sat before the fire and played cribbage. He was a good player, but not as good as she was.
|
178273
|
Maybe she thinks in Czech, dreams in German, pretends in English. Babylon is a beautiful place after all.
|
178200
|
As we sat at the cafe, Darrell told me that he had to make a mushroom delivery to one of his clients in Berkeley. I never knew whether it was legal or illegal business he was on, and he made a point of not telling me, because he said it was better I didn
|
1782104
|
Again, that was not the man I once knew. If they were taking Las Vegas odds; I should be the one dealing with this first.
Why was it him and not me?
|
178294
|
His hair was well groomed. The skin was radiant like apples tossed at the moon. The gym membership was well used, as the weight issue was easily cast into an abyss of loaded memories.
|
178231
|
The Happy Bunny Family had a secret: They weren't very happy.Everyone in town knew it, but of course no one said anything. Mr. Happy Bunny would stroll through the center of town on his way to work and people would smile and nod and wish him a good day and he would return…
|
178200
|
She turned to the window, staring into the dark. A smile crept to her lips and she laughed softly. “No, we can’t. I’m Mexican and we speak Spanish.” The smile vanished and she moved to leave. “No sé qué decir… sólo puedo llorar. Nada
|
178286
|
For me German was a school subject. For Hymen, who could pronounce German but not speak it, it was a poetic technique or element, shorthand for what ails the world.
|
17822518
|
|
178155
|
He has one good eye and is missing the other. The socket of his missing eye squints with a disturbing and unfathomable insight.
|
178100
|
The tsunami started, ironically enough, with a phone call.
|
178120
|
Before Plasma screen TV Futon Underwear (brief style) piled on kitchen chair Unopened mail from funeral parlour Water in the sink coloured orange with grease Desktop computer (flying toasters screen saver) Cigarette butts floating…
|
178130
|
He was dead when he tried to wake up.
“Wake up,” he yelled silently to himself, although it didn’t sound silent to his voice.
“Brr, brr, brr,” shouted his alarm clock as it glared two red fives, a colon and a seven
|
17811712
|
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
|
1781116
|
He has stubby, rough little fingers. Good.
|
178173
|
Why don't we do it in a yellow submarine?
|
178198
|
“As you do it unto the least of these so you do it unto me.” —Jesus These children that you murder are not your enemy. They are not your pain or your personal sorrow. They are, if anything, flowers blowing and …
|
178100
|
you choose to be mine
when you take hold of my hand -
silently, i'm yours
|
1781114
|
A wall of icons can be beautiful if you don’t look closely at the hands. The hands tell stories of too short lives and unrequited love.
|
178021
|
A plague of dykes mattered not. This spider-girl had driven the world of thought from Borden’s mind.
|
1780278
|
They discovered the baby in the grass, under the snapping cotton sheets.
|
178030
|
If I was a bum
I’d risk everything
for a drink or a smoke
I would beg and curse and steal
if I was a bum
If I was a bum
I would cuss out the Pope
I would not vote for anyone
because I would know truly
they’d be telling gross lies
|
178000
|
...It's my advice that this Fourth of July the Office of Homeland Security post the following instructions on your web site www.Ready.gov — people should act like my dog Lucy and just stay inside under the bed and tremble...
|
177977
|
The mountains of humility went silent, / the rain of regency dried its eyes
|
177987
|
a dry bony voice/from a desiccated soul/coughs up its own throat.
|
17791514
|
The rain pelted down, it got dark, and they couldn't see a thing. The wind roared like a thousand locomotives.
|
177821
|
He’d been wishing for months that he’d bought a retro clothing store. He would have called it HARRY’S HOARY HOSERRY. He would have met a better class of women.
|
177821
|
My dear Papa: I don't care to join you on holiday. Last summer when I came you and Frau Himmelfarb played "Wildlife Management" so late into the night that I got no rest.
|
