1522 7 7
|
Suddenly everything is delaminating
People are popping right off
the surface of humanity
I am coming loose from my previous lives
|
152276
|
The window washer started saving pigeons whose feet were wrapped in fine black thread, the result, he informed me, of picking through trash bins. They are very intelligent, he went on to explain. (Right, trash bins, I thought to myself.) People tend to av
|
152233
|
I didn’t see the little boy run up to Bandit until it was too late. The kid was about four and was excited to see such a big dog. He reached out his hand to pat Bandit’s head and Bandit lunged at him. The leash was wrenched from my hand, leaving a bloody
|
15221810
|
The one thing I believe in is collapse./
Abandoned buildings collapse. Civilizations//
collapse. Financial bubbles collapse./
Stars and galaxies collapse. Falling//
is something that comes quite naturally/
to puffed up things.
|
1522116
|
The question isn't whether we will survive-/
like rats, we are supremely adaptive-//
but whether we should survive.
|
1522116
|
|
1522127
|
|
152286
|
1. How can one begrudge the cracking open of a heart?When the lava love fire loaded insanity of self-control disappearsAnd the raw spewing beginsYou better be ready for the truthIt ain't gonna be prettyYou'll wish you were deadYou won't recognize where you areYou'll be…
|
152132
|
To him the younger women, contemporaries of the bride, all sounded as if they were breathing helium.
|
1521119
|
If you can’t consummate tomorrow / you may as well just annul the future
|
152100
|
She didn't want to let go of the crumpled tissue she had been holding all this time, as it is wrong to litter, but she finally did, and felt free. Released. Bad. Naughty. Almost orgasmic.
|
152111
|
You can tell
Noah hates
his job
and stares off
into space
not thinking of
birds
or land anymore
or the stars
just that wide
wide water
that won’t go
away
and why in the vast
flooded
damned
world
he was the one
w
|
152142
|
They continued sitting by the fake oasis, drinking single malt, eating soy crackers and chatting about the quality of escorts in glitzy glamping resorts. The Paring happened on number three. Just as the gold leafed chocolate fondant oozed decadent Bolivia
|
15211710
|
my family's Scottish heritage
|
152184
|
—Well, are you having an affair with Jack Mahler?
|
152198
|
Years later he surveys this place again to post something, anything. He plays "sex on fire," sounds that once fueled him. Now he knows the song is about VD, not unbridled potency. Names and words all seem at once familiar and numbing and noise. He once wanted fame or…
|
152134
|
Carl’s peculiarity of toilet paper rolls is not covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act – he’s looked it up.
|
152111
|
If I floated about this coffee cafe,Like a spirit, just watching.In this room of framed fake memories,A room of ambient light, marketing to the masses,(It works; it gets 'em in the doors.)If I floated, I'd seeThese people sitting—eating, drinking, sipping, typing,…
|
1521219
|
Polite society will cheer/
as another body is discovered//
and disposed of. The cheers/
will drown out the gasps
|
152188
|
I could hide away in this tower
But I am Rapunzel
And I will let down my hair
|
1520116
|
Today’s new YouTube kitten;
|
1520127
|
Mercury and Gemini disappointed.
|
1520106
|
Tired, so tired of it all, but oh we'll always go on, won't we, still carrying on about the love the love the love we shared, only again and again. Ooh the oozing life blood is slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly now going to shit I say, practically…
|
152031
|
This was looking down from what we know as The Grassy Knoll.
|
152098
|
we name invasive species,
|
152065
|
I'm in love with Uzma Goef, a beautiful young woman less than half my age.
|
152022
|
Starry, Starry Night
we slept, talked and did the nasty
where I, in innocence once
built a raft of driftwood
to take me twenty miles across
to the shore from which we ferried
escaping my Father’s demise
|
152032
|
Momma pointed out our paintings on the walls, the signs we had learned, but when Daddy saw our friends, their wheelchairs, braces on their legs, he left...
|
152055
|
Cockroaches in bed was the last straw. Alicia was sure she’d swallowed one in the middle of the night . . .
|
152032
|
The combined smells of ocean breeze, grilled cheese sandwiches, incense and sweat and burning herb that wafted over from Shakedown, along with windblown notes from tinny car speakers all rolled into a potent sensory cocktail he hadn’t tasted in far too l
|
