1508 14 8
|
In the gutter, the paper signs turned back to pulp.
|
150888
|
|
150853
|
She came to my house late that last night and shucked off her things and we slow-danced to Cruisin' as beaded rainwater slid off her black hair to the floor. She smiled an almost quizzical smile as she drank me there with her eyes, as if I was some…
|
150812
|
It distresses me that you will never lust after me /
the way you did for that girl /
who had her hands around your belt
|
150853
|
The porous bear the anchorite’s vial
|
150852
|
Maintaining a healthy love life requires effort and professional advice, and Your Love Life columnist would be happy to assist you.
|
1508119
|
|
150821
|
I knew nothing about the letter at first. When I came in that morning and smiled and said good morning, it was a genuine smile and a heartfelt good morning. But the letter, which had arrived the previous afternoon, was already doing its corrosive work of
|
150876
|
|
150820
|
Summer nights in Boston, old cast iron streetlights.
|
150810
|
Dana Weinstein, whose pet dog died last year, has spent nearly $50,000 over the last six months to clone her precious Chinese pug, Yu, so she could have 'Yu Too'."It's definitely not for most people," said Dana about her extreme measures to recreate her pet. "No other dog…
|
150897
|
In half-dreams she saw a pale alchemist kneeling before a stitched together abomination, witchcraft and science merged, mocking God’s fire.
|
15081714
|
He was a liability. I knew I had to ditch him.
|
150810
|
He was almost dying when I reached the hospital. I walked past the open automatic sliding doors into the lobby, almost vacant except a few people milling around, the nurses fighting sleep behind the desks while waiting for their shift to end.
|
150798
|
... black holes suck in matter and supernovas explode.
|
15071312
|
// opening act: van featuring balloon featuring drugs
// headliner: lubv ya babe
|
1507157
|
In one of the cartoons I watched as a child, Popeye the Sailor gives Olive Oyl a bouquet of flowers. She is thrilled, he walks on air, thinking they will marry. His one-eyed heroism is soon challenged by Bluto however, who pours cement into Popeye's bath. It goes…
|
150766
|
Devoid of flesh and muscle,
Composed of bone and air.
|
150742
|
Albertine had never loved Agnés. Oh! She had liked her very much. Especially her wit, the skin at the nape of her neck, even the two freckles on her arse that would bloom when licked.
|
1507156
|
It was not that he was boring – it’s just that he needed a lot of encouragement. When he came, he whispered to himself, ‘ohgodohgodohgod’ - like it was something to be ashamed of, to be sorry for. I wanted to hold him close against me but I also n
|
150752
|
The last time I saw Jackson, I didn’t write down the set list. This time I didn’t write down the set list, either.
|
150720
|
Joseph K. ran a publishing house in the shadow of the Castle.
Perhaps “publishing house” is too grand a title. Joseph K. kept a battery of six or seven (depending on repairs) manual typewriters, a crate of carbon paper, and a large stapling machine
|
1507146
|
There are lines//
across time, beyond the tug/
of elections and fashion,/
beyond the turbulence of history
|
15072112
|
It chases other newborns down and eats them.
|
150796
|
I cannot begin to list all the ways this conversation can go downhill from here, so I hang up the phone quietly.
|
150701
|
And out on that lake that day you yelled “desperation please!”
And I heard “desperate pleas?”
I wondered about first impressions.
|
150711
|
We begged him to sell us some shade. Just enough for half an hour, until our bus would pick us up and drive us to our next destination, continuing what was turning out to be a purgatory tour of forgotten Mediterranean towns.
|
1506135
|
Slice the moment into/
free body diagrams/
of elegant simplicity
|
150600
|
Damien, my boyfriend, talks me back to sleep when I wake up in the middle of the night, he doesn't judge me for being afraid of the dark, or being lost at sea, he simply listens to me breathlessly explaining why I'm awake— again— at 3:32 in the…
|
150695
|
To make your own, obtain a book with blank pages. Collect materials; postcards, photographs, magazines. Make rules to determine what you do with them. Write things down. Make other rules to determine whether you write in the book or on pieces of paper
|
