1530 6 6
|
israeli flares light gaza/ casting incandescent nudity/ upon jumbled puzzle piece buildings.
|
1530 16 7
|
It's time, more than anything
|
1530 9 7
|
a girl with wolves, dogs and a bear
|
1530 13 6
|
|
1530 4 0
|
“Well, aren’t you the cutest thing?”
Shelly looked around for the source of the line and one of the better looking bar flies met her gaze. He wore a faded t-shirt with a swoosh graphic that read ‘Just Do Me‘. True to its mystical nature, her indefatigabl
|
1530 11 7
|
Lucky for mama, he doesn't like for his women to work.
|
1530 0 0
|
"Oh — what is this 'work' thing the philosophers speak of" sort of thing.
|
1529 0 0
|
The sound built up, louder and louder causing birds and insects to fly into the air. Then it stopped.
|
1529 3 3
|
It is only seven-thirty but the night is full, gloom seizing Highway 66. There is a carcass on the road, maybe a human, slumped next to an empty ice cream truck. Several stars hang up in the East, drunken constellations scrambling to find meaning.
|
1529 3 1
|
|
1529 3 2
|
Each time his eyes closed, he shook off the sleep, whimpered, and opened them wide again. I’d never watched a baby fall asleep before, but I realized at that time that falling asleep could be a scary thing. The world gets fuzzy and starts slipping awa
|
1529 7 6
|
“Now we lay you in your grave
There was no way you could be saved
You hate our lord Jesus and he can tell
Which is why you will burn in hell.”
|
1529 5 6
|
facts of matters are not as they seem,/hour by hour crafty comments creep in,/another hour and "the good" is a horror:/ our human blindness is older than our sight.
|
1529 3 2
|
He took the car out into the middle of Nowhere, Mexico, and drove it at top speed, off-road for a day and a night. I am talking strut-breaking, axle-wrecking, wheel-bending, paint-peeling conditions and balls-to-the-wall, testosterone-drunk driving.
|
1529 1 1
|
When we started plans for the party, none of us wanted Larry to die, most of all Larry himself.
Actually, when we first started plans for the party, Larry wasn’t dying.
|
1529 6 5
|
I got on the Greyhound Bus at 11 a.m. and sat by myself staring out the window. I could see the reflection of my own dark beard in the window, a 27 year-old man with a huge poem bursting my heart, gasping to get out into the bright lit-up world out there,
|
1529 3 0
|
You’ve known her since grade school and even though you’ve never copped a feel, it gave you a strange chill when you heard boys talking about her breasts, pressing against madras or chamois with some devilish life force, or how one day she’ll fuck l
|
1529 6 5
|
Going to the candy store at night in the section of town called Kalliope. Riding bike, trying to get there before it closed at ten. Getting candy at that little store with the glass containers and the rows and rows of candy. Getting milk there…
|
1528 6 2
|
Eddie meets Sarah Packard, a “college girl” played by Piper Laurie. She walks with a limp, a fact Eddie doesn’t notice at first because she’s sitting down at a diner table in a bus station. She’s alcoholic and writes poetry.
|
1528 7 4
|
I was just sitting in the corner, stirring my stories with a straw that sucked characters out of bars.
|
1528 13 8
|
|
1528 4 2
|
Sparky took to me immediately. In some atavistic canine way he knew I was simpatico to a dog like him.
|
1528 6 3
|
“I'm thinking about math class,” she said. “The solution to three factorial.”
“Easy,” Leo said.
|
1528 3 3
|
|
1528 17 13
|
This year we have no need of spring!
|
1527 5 2
|
This is Peter’s office. The room is small, and the wood paneling is painted white. Light colors, Peter has been told, make a room appear larger.
|
1527 0 1
|
Dear Butterfly, Are you there ? Wherever there is ? Are you there, crossing your feet on top of each other, sipping your coffee while observing the sky from behind those cat-eye glasses of yours ? 3 days, 8 months and 11 years. That's exactly how long since the last time…
|
1527 1 2
|
An yet we are all inmates...
|
1527 8 2
|
Mom wraps a bulky-knit scarf around my face and over my mouth. She tightens it into a big knot in back of my collar.
|
1527 7 5
|
The Devil and the Holy Ghost played Euchre on Friday nights. The Devil drank rock and rye and the Holy Ghost went for Miller Lite. What just irks hell out of me, pardon my French, the Ghost began, is that nobody knows who the fuck I am.
|