1701 8 6
|
Your laugh used to startle the nurses.
|
170177
|
Content may contain ordinary, everyday, and all around average happenings.
|
17011210
|
The kid with a testosterone chip
Instead of a brain
|
170101
|
As the four flew beside each other, they shared their stories and got to know one another. Soon they learned from the voice what was happening.
|
170175
|
If the Titanic rises from the bottom of the sea,
I will meet you on deck, in a deck chair.
Fully dressed for a change.
|
1701104
|
Come, bring your sadness
to the precipice of my body,
bury it within me like a tool
|
170194
|
I It's been there all week, Nose tucked into tail Comfort found between impact and asphalt II I'm still here logged out, still here Had it with the billboards the check engine light milemarkers... Just…
|
17001113
|
I was seeing the owl lady from time to time when I met Caroline.
|
170000
|
Alysia tried to focus on what was important, but it was too much to bear. She was ready to dive down when a shot of wind blew past her, causing her and Megumi to lose control over their gliders.
|
170075
|
I got a sixth of a cow in the freezer
That’s not meant to be just a teaser
I guess all I’m sayin’
Come on home and you’ll be stayin’
Cause I got a sixth of a cow in the freezer
Got a rack and a half of ribs
I ain’t tellin’ you no fibs
|
170075
|
Why flash?because the moments, the moments, they pass in flashes of brilliancethat shudder, death glow alightand nothing makes sense beyond nowand nothing will help me but meand I am not even enoughnot my thoughts or your nod of assentor even the deep sigh of…
|
170021
|
|
170022
|
So it's me and two other girls...
|
1700128
|
Trigger warning: casualties of war.
|
1699127
|
In time, I will forgethow he said "smooshie" for "smoothie"and "eyebrowns" for "eyebrows,"how his upper lip dimpled when he laughedin that uproarious, wild toddler way.How he wheedled to be wrapped and rocked,after a bath, even at age five,his long calves uncovered by…
|
169944
|
It was a dark and stormy night.
|
169932
|
|
169900
|
I met Barry Hannah once in my life. I’d come to Oxford, MS, to meet an entirely different writer whom I thought then and think now very highly of. I’d also come to escape from another slew of regrets. Oxford is a great city to run away to.
|
169945
|
The last time Cyrus rode in a train’s passenger car, he came home a dead man.
|
169954
|
I said, “That bird is hungry.”
The sparrow was eying both of us
At our separate outside café tables
As it hopped around looking for crumbs.
Then it would look up at us
Expectantly.
|
169911
|
1. The sparrows' heads revolve slowly when you press the red button, but the boxing glove attachments don't work.2. A weird weaving of voices, unmusical harmony. One phrase punctures the texture: “The empty slot.”3. Poems are processed into more useful verbal…
|
169930
|
white-gray mounds persist
|
169900
|
Their faces covered in shadow, smiles so relaxing, a tall woman approached her, gently rubbing her face. Her lips moved with no sound, but Sora subconsciously understood what she said.
|
1699118
|
He liked to take pictures of her, and she liked to pose. It made her horny, she said.
|
1699136
|
|
169972
|
I must have been six years old at that time, but the events of…
|
169854
|
facts are facets are / things in the act // the truth speaks softly // as time saying amber / to the enduring sap // words come and go / like leaves like men // we the tree remain ...
|
169843
|
I'd never seen a dead person before, let alone one that was living just
seconds earlier.
|
1698172
|
You can tend to recognise the difference between a good and mediocre mind by observing how each reacts to a misfired original idea.The mediocre mind will praise the merely meretricious, but ignore the more interesting bad art. The higher mind will value the misfired…
|
1698154
|
This cell the sole certainty,
all else steeped in mystery.
Why should we be here?
|
