1690 1 2
|
“Why do you write filth?” they howl
|
169071
|
I’m in high leather boots; I’m talking many dead cows here and I respect that
|
169076
|
She tells me I have to face the fact that I have the heart of the Tin Man. I know the story. He had none. She is very sensitive and I have to measure my remarks because words bruise her so easily. So, I…
|
169064
|
What in the name of God’s green earth does this say? “Chifferobe if you can of Aztec in coffee can”?
|
16901012
|
A cult is one thing; it defies common sense that a commonly educated person cannot escape cultist thinking and belonging. That cult, A.A., is girded by police, fire, therapy, hospitals, insurance companies, and courts.
|
16902015
|
Falling Water almost fell./
12 million dollars later//
it will splay itself a little longer
|
169088
|
|
169074
|
My mother's afraid the dog will drown. It's raining and our street is flooding and the dog is standing on top of his doghouse. My mother is pregnant. I can stand beneath her stomach and not even see her face. I watch her from the kitchen window. She's shoeless. She holds…
|
169066
|
The coffin-sized pit in his basement wasn’t freshly dug.
|
169032
|
She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
|
169023
|
Mr Robertson chuckled gently as he caught the aroma of freshly cooked cinnamon doughnuts and watched the oil leave its fingerprints.
|
16901512
|
I took Annie to the zoo, and the tigers got out. The little tigers, that is. Cubs. Two of them. The zoo employees scurried about, peeking into nooks and crannies.
|
169031
|
The man next to me on the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto makes me think of the smokers I’ve kissed.
|
168965
|
There is an empty space,
between every note in rock 'n' roll,
where they have buried John Bonham,
|
168900
|
After Jonesy entered the bear habitat, he walked up to the biggest bear in the group and punched it square in the nose. The bear was visibly startled. I mean, bears don’t get punched that often. And there’s a reason: bears are ferocious animals.
|
168953
|
Henry and I had met at the hospital. He'd been forty years my senior, but we'd been in for precisely the same reason: kidney stones.
|
1689126
|
The ghosts run before/
attacking horsemen. A heart/
is ruptured by a spear.
|
1689125
|
Can’t you do anything right?
|
168970
|
[TURN-ONS: willingness. TURN-OFFS: rejection.]
|
168975
|
Long, elegant, with a touch of arch,
|
168900
|
Frowning, loosening a purple tie, Tony pushed through the golden revolving doors of a skyscraper. He drifted into the crowded midtown street as if in a daze. He was roused to his senses as his cell phone sent out the melody of his wedding song.
|
168822
|
I remember thinking the seasons are arriving later every year,
as if the world has been slowed by the weight of graves.
|
168889
|
I thought the Ferris wheel was dumb. All it did was give you a high altitude view of the little Minnesota town where I had grown up.
|
168844
|
She served him pie she knew was ruined.
|
168831
|
It was a phone call we never expected. You were so full of life and joy and the sound of your laugh was pierced in our minds. Two strokes. That's what they said. No explanation, no back story. We worried we would lose you. Immediately, all of our memories with you started…
|
168898
|
I think I remember now why people write poetry.
|
168801
|
A blonde girl, her youth evident beneath a cosmetic mask of bruised eye shadow and plum lipstick, claims the seat beside me on a train. A radiant six month-old gazes out from her hip, awe-struck at life, as my own son must have been at that age. I never e
|
168832
|
fate is an illusion we use to ease the terror of our mortality
|
1688136
|
I travel over your body with small feet,
reach your heart.
|
168896
|
People suck. They suck you down, and if you're not careful, they'll ruin you.
|
