1525 10 9
|
We’re lucky it/
was chunky spew,
|
152596
|
|
1525121
|
Henry Ground was a healthy and well adjusted English man who excelled at chess and folk dancing. One day, for no apparent reason, he decided to fill his guinea pig with helium. He carried the animal under the light of the stars into the shed at the bottom of his garden.…
|
152551
|
I lift up my sweatshirt and reach with a full fist into my belly button. This is where the fat comes out.
|
152565
|
I left the train, still going nowhere, but in a hurry.
Still a boy, but trapped in a suit.
|
152564
|
The mind sparkles with Shakespeare. It's like hearing the rain fall. The world becomes silent and dark and the rain becomes snow and falls like snow and rests on the ground like snow and informs the mind with the values of heaven. A distant oboe pins its sympathies…
|
152500
|
Emi watched the Perez sisters show each other support. It brought back memories of Mayumi giving her support, even fighting for her.
|
152597
|
Weight of faithlessness...
Mist
Of bodily
Existence
Grave expectations for the future
|
1525113
|
Ego bereft of consistency Betrays a heart hungering to toll. Unable to trust its will Or harbor imaginary gods, It gains a hold melding into a role whose proven viability Can give convincing cover To buy time to fabricate An identity that feels unique, Yet…
|
152531
|
7 — IT'S HARD TO HAVE FRIENDS WHEN YOU'VE NEVER HAD ANY AND ARE STILL FUCKING WHINING ABOUT IT — Once he learned he didn't “bring anything to the table,” Worthless Veikass hit on the notion of [...]
|
152573
|
Look around you, see what you have built.
|
15251110
|
|
1524179
|
A young girl wavering between celibacy and punk mother-lust despair came to visit us each night
|
1524119
|
All else is unmoved/
and relentless in its indifference.
|
152431
|
angels give them names of important people, people under the control of evil demons whose influence must be negated at all cost if humanity is to survive into the future and achieve its ultimate potential.
|
1524139
|
Remember the equatorial heat, the flies,/
the lurking hum and scream of jungle,/
the squalor? Remember the functionary.
|
152454
|
My wife says you can tell the crooks from the cops from the cowboys at the taco truck across the street.
|
152422
|
The first days of October are ordinary in the way that milk just hours away from spoiling is ordinary milk. You can baptise your cornflakes with it, but part of you knows the whole thing is just shy of almost right.
|
152411
|
|
152496
|
...when suddenly I was pushed from behind, smack into the deep end.
|
152444
|
I was so used to the silence of late summer afternoons, when I could roll my hoop through the empty, sunlit piazzas without meeting another shadow, that at first I mistook the footsteps for the beat of a metronome spilling through an open window.
|
152411
|
"So, how did you know my name?"
"I read memories." i said
|
1524108
|
“I have a theory,” she said on their first date, which was at an Indian restaurant where the music was a lovely singsong but the chef seemed enraged as he clapped a ball of dough between his hands, then threw it into the flames. And her date, whom she…
|
15241610
|
Lavender, a Liberal Betty, batty from hormones, in a fanciful fit, named her daughter Lavender. Husband Don winced. Brothers Donald, John, Billy, and Tom were puzzled and pleased by this sister, this girl, who was a little bit like them, yet not like them at…
|
1524108
|
My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.
|
152400
|
When sixth-grade science teacher Pat Farrell assigns an earth-science lab on measuring crystals, the girls collect their materials, read the directions and follow the sequence from beginning to end. The first thing boys do is ask, “Can we eat this?"
|
152498
|
I don't think you understand. A sad boy doesn't just die inside, slowly, he becomes withdrawn from certain types of lovely youthful reasoning out loud, accustomed to feeling what is expected, graded, just to be allowed to survive another…
|
1524146
|
|
152444
|
Feelin’, feelin’ good, down-fallin’ down/rain, rain, rain came today,/wet alfresco alchemy
|
152300
|
I remember one time when we played strip poker in the basement of your house on Euclid Avenue, me, Terry, you and Andy. And I remember drinking lots of wine and fixing the deck so that you kept losing and having to take off all your clothes, and still you
|
