1521 4 2
|
In the summer of 1963 I went to Philadelphia to study with a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
|
1521 3 2
|
I didn't feel when you cut out my spine I'd been throwing up all night couldn't even smell the rust …
|
1521 8 1
|
Sorry, I think I was jotting and not writing. I see a dropped article that would clarify my interest. I purposely didn't describe my alcohol use. There, I just did.
|
1521 3 4
|
Carl’s peculiarity of toilet paper rolls is not covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act – he’s looked it up.
|
1520 0 0
|
If I remember him at all it’s because I decided not to flunk him so he could graduate. I had this theory that teachers should be bound by the same oath as doctors, First, do no harm.
|
1520 2 1
|
An excellent plan. Just like old times.
|
1520 7 6
|
Safe does not ride horses at sunsetSnorkel in MolokaiRaft down a swollen river.It does not steal kisses in a darkened theaterTouch the inside of a thigh under a restaurant table.Safe does not declare war.It chooses dinner every night at sixMass every SundayConfession once a…
|
1520 2 0
|
Stay tuned for my next short - Candle Smoke Wishes - COMING SOON ON A MONITOR NEAR YOU!!
|
1520 8 7
|
|
1520 3 1
|
|
1520 5 1
|
THE BOOK YOU'LL NEVER READ CONTENTS This Is Not A Test In The Event Of A Nuclear Attack, This Message Will Be Followed By A Message From Your Local Civilian Defense Authority Fuck, The Radio Doesn't Work Trouble Shooting Radios The Top 40…
|
1520 7 5
|
I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…
|
1520 2 1
|
Neither you nor I is old enough, of course,
to remember that America’s most
popular athlete once was a horse.
|
1520 15 11
|
When Lois finally found him down there, Johnny was wedged between a large rock and the trunk of an old, long since fallen, cottonwood tree. She said as she got to him, she heard his gurgling breath, fighting fiercely to stay alive. When she saw the deep, gathering, red…
|
1520 6 4
|
Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.
|
1520 11 5
|
Blue skies greet us as we exit the forest . . .
|
1519 5 3
|
|
1519 4 4
|
I gave you two daughters.
I gave you four grandchildren.
I'm done.
|
1519 6 1
|
HORDES OF MEN desolated, struck down, destroyed, sunken form of skin and skeleton, bare cloth matted to torso, bodycage and hipbone, face and neck darkened, bloating to black, rain the endless dream stuck fast in the stone-dead skull and blood a fine sheen over all,…
|
1519 0 0
|
Let me guess. You're reading this because it's dark or there's no surf or you're at work dreaming about surf or you're broken in some way that prevents you from surfing. If I'm right, you depraved little human, then you have come to the right place. Here we…
|
1519 4 0
|
There are songs I know to not listen to when I am alone.
|
1519 9 10
|
So where does that leave me, Roscoe Loomis wondered, dismounting his silver, aluminum steed in his sweat-soaked, spandex outfit, and, clearing the saliva from his beard he walked over, checked and smiled, learning that the bike track's timing unit showed it was Roscoe's…
|
1519 6 4
|
you tell
a stranger's story...
|
1519 0 0
|
Hits start, enters numbers, runs the program / Does this again one hundred times / Then takes a break
|
1519 6 5
|
He doesn't call, not even on her birthday. She doesn't mention it or complain. She knows she doesn't have it as bad as some, even in this privileged Triangle of North Carolina. She is white and pretty and belongs to what's left of the middle…
|
1519 17 10
|
politics only add to assault and distract
|
1519 8 6
|
Before Genesis, digesting the primordial soup.
|
1519 2 0
|
Now it's late. I am hanging upside down from a rope coiled around my crushed left ankle, the pain too sharp to be really felt, as the excess blood to my head makes my thoughts fuzzy. I am almost two meters from the rock face, thirty-five hundred meters above sea-level, the…
|
1519 5 4
|
when i was five or six/ we lived in an apartment/ and every sunday/ i'd lie on the carpet/ to watch squares of sunshine/ crawl across the rug/ while my mother inflicted upon us/ a centuries-long hour of television/ worse than any droning mass.
|
1519 3 1
|
The trouble with alarm clocks is naturally that they are miserable. And their curse is that their misery is useful: we employ them because we want to get away from them. But we would never have one as a friend.
|