1524 7 4
|
Bill Watterson isn't just the creator of the world's best comic strip. According to the book “Looking for Calvin and Hobbes,” a biography of the elusive and reclusive cartoonist, Watterson is also a world-class introvert. Watterson refuses to make…
|
152431
|
This was looking down from what we know as The Grassy Knoll.
|
152476
|
Steven was a hollow tree of a man — outwardly normal for a tired fortysomething, but empty inside. He lived alone in an old farmhouse that reeked of decomposition and Lysol, the previous tenant having left a dozen skinned raccoon carcasses in the attic.
|
152432
|
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...
|
152422
|
I have reasons to believe she’s been stealing.“
“Stealing what?”
“Steaks.”
“Steaks?”
|
1524128
|
The slicing is easy. Blade barely touching skin, flesh separating into two clean parts. A breath, and blood fills in the space, an old friend materializing in the shadows. I am redolent with hope and desire. I can't stop thinking of how he excised himself from my…
|
152322
|
Her memory was a faded pastiche of the past, and indeed the present sat uneasily in the middle of the dreams that governed her mind; so it was that often she would forget the day, the time, the year.
|
152343
|
some days you wake up/ to feel horror/ wrapped beneath your blanket./
|
152355
|
|
152385
|
What fascinates me now is now, this instant, this moment. This fugitive, this delinquent, this indiscreet, this forever elusive now. Now now. Now is now and now it is not now. Now is the adversary of time.…
|
152363
|
It is not unusual to see Göttwigg with his shirt on inside out.
|
15231211
|
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…
|
152355
|
Black bugs are falling, fluttering down
like big, black snow flakes.
Two bugs, almost always,
sometimes only one.
|
152311
|
I like babies and little kids, more than some people but goddamn, children's laughter out of nowhere (in the night, when you're not expecting it) is creepy. I don't like slugs smeared like nightmare goo on my summer-bare feet, I could do without them in …
|
152245
|
His daddy died in his sleep. Went to bed one might and never got up.
|
152200
|
Sacrificial vic bleeds out . . .
|
152221
|
Gert sat in the car and wiped at the inside of the window while the defroster blasted at full strength. The shards and slivers of ice that networked across the windshield were just thick enough to hinder visibility. Bane wrenched the door open and shoved
|
152296
|
New waitress/bartender
draws my attention to
bare ankles and red hair
|
152200
|
My tongue kept me from fitting in with the latinos. I understood little Spanish and spoke even less. No one really believed I was Mexican, and they kept me at a distance.
Or maybe I kept them at a distance. Living with
|
1522158
|
Ghosts//
and the voice of God/
never actually visited you
|
152231
|
What follows is one of those moments, though to some people, it would seem a fantasy, perhaps a "Wizard of Oz" era tale.
|
15221210
|
|
152287
|
How many shadows in your soul? Close your eyes, my love, let me / make you blind as the wings of a drenched, drowned bee.
|
152265
|
Infinity occurs as an afterthought, for discoverers like Columbus as for countries like America.
|
1521107
|
I have known a head become / a callus, matriculate, stop / shaving, move to Vegas
|
1521119
|
In the summer when it's light out later it's my nature to linger a couple of hours in the park after work, just standing around watching the Downtown Divas working the corner, offering themselves to each male driver who stops for the light and I always joke with them about…
|
152132
|
|
1521109
|
Only last Friday, he was introduced/
around, smiling, healthy,/
a fine young man.
|
152121
|
...I am taut...my ankles ache...
|
152198
|
They articulate my failings as a human being./
They articulate my greater rage at human beings//
here for such a short time and at the precipice already
|
