1690 20 11
|
The nearsighted world/
puts on its lenses
|
169086
|
My wife tells me/your dog has vomited/
on the carpet AGAIN!
|
169044
|
It was like watching one of those vintage eighteen-frames-per-second films of someone trying to open a stuck umbrella.
|
169083
|
"I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence, memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime." Francis bacon “Feminine …
|
169033
|
Her body: normal as a body, a baby’s body: skin and eyes.
|
1690217
|
Once, asked what time it was, M. replied, "Eternity."
|
169098
|
I could trust that most nights I would drop off to sleep at around midnight and shortly thereafter dream an “us dream”, a how we were dream, a sensing of our bodies undulating, then moving faster, moving with the waves of a special music only we could hear, with…
|
1690108
|
The next time I see you, I’m going to pretend you’re a stranger, and that I’m meeting you for the first time.
|
168953
|
For reasons he couldn't fathom, his motorcycle only moved in reverse. He engaged the engine and lurched backward hard. He called a friend, a gear-head with perpetually dirty nails, asked him to look it over.
|
168941
|
The strawberries remind me of you,Fat and fleshy,Pimple-dimpled.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
168974
|
I don’t want to debate polemics while I’m sweaty and naked. I just want my hair cut.
|
168900
|
"So, what do you do for fun around here? I mean, other than each other?" Carlo's smirk broke into full-fledged laughter; Yuri feigned shock. Iris leaned forward and breathed into Bronte's ear: "We misbehave."
|
168901
|
This time, he didn’t admire the fish for very long. He was close to shore and tossed it up on the rocks. Before the fish could flop its way back to the water, Quentin lobbed a broad stone at its head.
|
168900
|
For you –
because you deserve more effort
|
168970
|
[TURN-ONS: willingness. TURN-OFFS: rejection.]
|
16891513
|
I asked the hospice nurse about maggots.
|
168844
|
A tough enough signal to read under the best of meteoric circumstances, this is one maybe I'll keep on thinking about. I might be able to make something everlasting out of this crazy shamble for love after all. I no longer…
|
168800
|
Alysia raised the staff over the huddle and together everyone created a barrier. The wind blew past them and the grey mist surrounded them.
|
1688106
|
If you're a Boomer, your brain is teaming with decades-old Pop tunes that you just can't forget. The real reason you can never remember where you put your keys? Too many of your brain cells are clinging to every last lyric to “Fire and Rain,” “Free…
|
16882312
|
We know them just enough/
to recognize them when we find them.
|
168840
|
Holy shit, man, look at that!” Mike's pimply face melts into drooling bliss. His dad had stopped in this whacko town on the way to our campsite, muttered something about angry lesbians, and disappeared. Rick and I follow Mike's dumbstruck gaze to a shop…
|
168833
|
eleven o'clock spills
despair all over
our bedspread
|
16881613
|
He'd hung above her head for months.
|
168886
|
Our afterlife depends upon//
what interesting shape
|
168865
|
It was the sodabottle glasses that scared Entro the most. Stubbled with scratches, taped with residual angst and piercing his soul with contempt he’d seen only on the National Geographic Focus Antarctica series - as Seals readied to mangle for Alpha bragg
|
168732
|
... and the train pulls up and my shadow from yesterday steps off, and I'm standing on one leg balancing just like the weather between winter and spring, I hear a siren and my heart races, I'm about to step aboard when I hear footsteps behind me and two hands cover my eyes…
|
16871911
|
Girl with glasses and
skinny fingers
playing with wires
|
16871210
|
of placing the rope just so; of settling
the veil with care --
|
168774
|
God damn you women get me all /
twisted up thinking oohrahrah and lala
|
168711
|
King's splendid stronghold Pressing down the earth below Broken by the grass
|
