1497 4 2
|
...it's about female needs, Rex.
|
149754
|
This is why the earth revolves around the sun: refrigerator magnets.
|
1497149
|
Endurance wears the soul thin.//
The hour to succumb ticks ever closer.
|
14971810
|
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.
|
149742
|
It was hard, in the crowded vacation house,
to make love as they would have alone.
|
149798
|
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…
|
149762
|
The goose on the roof isn’t aware it is doing anything odd...
|
149734
|
They were just boys, the Nazis I mean, young in their twenties, not much older than my brother Cyril.
|
14971510
|
The Plaza had a chess-board floor, green wood booths, and the lights stayed up. I might be combining a memory of Fitzie's in Binghamton. The Plaza felt like a preppy soda fountain with beer.
|
149653
|
and watched you grinning from your opulent spinning cages and although you were never less than always remarkably perfumed, toappeal I'm guessing to the sniffing about masses, to me they've…
|
149640
|
I had never seen anyone die. For first time in my life, I was afraid, even more than when my step-dad got drunk and roughed me up. When Dale Franklin got shot last year standing on the corner outside the laundry-mat it took the ambulance forty-five minu
|
149651
|
Nicole knows that Deirdre is winding up for the weekly pitch, practicing the line in her mind.
|
149666
|
Divine guidance. That's why Dad used a blowtorch to set the jug on fire, its contents the “Devil's elixir.”
|
149653
|
Either it was rescue--if the customer was alive to be found--or recovery, the term for bringing out the dead.
|
149621
|
Jill's number was flashing on Carol's caller ID. Jill, the baby sister she had practically raised after their mother died of a stroke when Carol was 12. It had been months since they'd talked. Jill had been avoiding Carol because Jill's idiot husband Mark…
|
149600
|
They look like amateur beavers, all twenty-seven of them on their knees, gnawing through frosting bark. My wife is taking notes on a huge purple flower, listening to the kids as they shout out what tree corresponds to what flavor.
|
14961911
|
served as it is/
among these friends.
The frayed filaments/
tickle my chin and irritate my nostrils,
|
149662
|
The sting of a slap will be remembered, as will sex, or at least a fragment of it, such as the face of a man in your room who tied your hands with the belt of your plush terry bathrobe.
|
149643
|
Auto and the Grease-Pits
Sugar Cube
Full Frontal
The Holy Grill
Crazy Al and the Squirrels
Talk Is Cheap
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Cold Zippers
Destiny Howl
Epiphany Critter
Cold Kneecaps
Crepes
Pulled Pork
Baby Seals and the Club
|
14961211
|
Wanna,wanna, whoop de loop. Hold my baby, kiss my mom, dance the way I used to do. Desktops, blacktops, cut and paste, speed down hills, learn the rules, Sister Saint Marion, married to Christ. Sixteen, life-green, pink tights, Swan Lake, an…
|
149665
|
We now live in post-Postmodern Absurdist fear of course, says our smiling Prof. That’s the price we pay he tells us. . . .
|
149600
|
Even if you're doing it together, there's no unity when everyone's dancing to their own tune.
|
149631
|
What follows is one of those moments, though to some people, it would seem a fantasy, perhaps a "Wizard of Oz" era tale.
|
149642
|
Whatever innocence Michelle had brought to the game was long gone, even the part where she dreamed she was the star of a righteous, asskicking movie.
|
149677
|
I’m decades in and it hasn’t gone away.
In all other respects, I am normal. Life
is hard, but I’m not complaining. The thing
is, I am in a constant state of falling.
|
149686
|
The world is upon us. The only thing that matters Now is if you are willing to be seen by them. Many moths Will be hidden by simply gathering on the bark Of the one tree, but this will not sustain you if you Do not also have the courage…
|
149522
|
I am a human resource, batteries not included
|
149598
|
Just beyond the corkscrew slide / the President of Egypt was bleeding to death
|
1495216
|
She hasn't called me in days. Before calling her, I search my memory for something romantic to say. Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 says exactly what I'm thinking. But she doesn't need to hear it. She already knows, as all human efforts come to an end, my core energies are tapering…
|
149542
|
Downton Abbey and The Beverly Hillbillies. They're practically the same show.
|
