1895 17 10
|
“What are you doing, Maestro?"
|
1895128
|
No fuckin' way, Maude. Excuse me, but you know I can't stand that bag of wind. No way.
|
18951615
|
When I died, she said, she was going to have me cremated and put my ashes in the cats’ litter box.
|
189572
|
French pee runs stronger, less minty. In France the world' a pissoir.
|
189566
|
There were avocados splayed across menus like 1950′s pinup girls–all thigh and curve. Avocados in California omelets. Avocados split and diced, sprayed with lime, slapped on bagels, served with tomato.
|
1895128
|
"Everything except food and sex."
|
189500
|
Two women grab a table near a window in a coffee shop. Outside, the sky is the color of dulled aluminum. It is early spring and pollen assaults the air with a tint of sulfur.
|
189432
|
Put blisters on your fingers and
Put plasters on your head but
Put peppers on your privates and
You’ll wish that you were dead!
|
189476
|
2. humility You know what silly does? Silly guarantees that you will enjoy the moment as the moment for the moment. Clowns make fun of silly. Isn't that ironic? They are in essence the opposite of their own image. That's why so many people see them as evil--because you…
|
18941714
|
Tan my hide. Feed me to rabid / macaques.
|
189485
|
They have a saying in Russia: Live in Voronezh, work in Samara, die in Tyumen. In honour of Saint Rose, born on the banks of the Voronezh, fed the hungry and the poor of Samara, torn apart by wolves in Tyumen on the exact date that she had herself predict
|
189484
|
A girl waiting at the door, heart in a Ziploc. An elderly woman stopping at the bank. A bear in a screaming contest with a troop of girl scouts.
|
189311
|
I keep my life very ordered. Order for me is security. I am sure of some things. Like the fact I work five nights a week, and sleep during the day.
|
18931715
|
Before the days of “customer experience,” Eddie figured out whatever information he could about his clients. He asked them for business cards, recorded their phone numbers from the reservation book, snapped photos of them in his mind…
|
189321
|
A plague of dykes mattered not. This spider-girl had driven the world of thought from Borden’s mind.
|
1893116
|
He has stubby, rough little fingers. Good.
|
1893105
|
|
18922016
|
The custard of eternity is scooped into
the quantum cone of knowledge and drips
out the bottom one lifetime at a time.
|
1892105
|
there she was, this beautiful duck with her 4 beautiful babies, under my bush.
|
189286
|
There was something wrong with this picture. Was he the man she had slept with last night?
|
189233
|
In another lifetime the loft had been a shoe factory and I joked how in the dark of night I could hear the ghosts of lost soles speaking in tongues. There was the rolling of eyes, and when I repeated the joke to my therapist, who was actually sitting acr
|
189262
|
They stood at the intersection waiting for the light to change so they could cross the highway.
|
18911510
|
It's so far to get to where we aren't inthe way of someone's destructive progress.I'm only walking in my own gardensnow, but the big blue house is like an emptiedout envelope. I guess that makes this themissing letter. I don't know your heart's newaddress, but I once…
|
18911410
|
It is indisputable that poets love roadkill...
|
189120
|
They were starting to get winded. The boy, his father and his little brother were hiking up a hill, cutting a diagonal path through hay-colored grass towards an outcrop of craggy boulders below the hill's summit.
|
189162
|
I flip up my hoodie, pull the string tight across my lips until it cuts into them, pull tighter, saw back and forth until blood warms the hairs on my chin.
|
1891114
|
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.
|
189135
|
The vampire donated floodlights so the children could play ballgames at night. The lights came on but the dugouts remained vacant. The vampire sat alone in the bleachers. “Sometimes I am less than the sum of my parts,” he said to the sum of his parts.
|
189100
|
Lighter-than-air flight was back. The skies of the coast were alight with colorful balloons, dirigibles, and zeppelins tethered to their docking towers along the beach, the huge aircraft bobbing in the breeze up and down the coast for miles,…
|
189098
|
In the beginning the revolution was all motion and energy. When the President for Life resigned motion and energy disappeared with the sounds of clapping hands.
|
