1323 4 3
|
Her son was doubtless the biggest wanksta that ever went to Andrew Jackson in the whole crumby history of the school.
|
1323 0 0
|
Rome and Carthage wage war as Hannibal crosses the Alps and invades Italy. With him, he brings an army of barbarian hordes hellbent on reducing Rome to ash. For one young Roman soldier, Gaius, he is trapped between his loyalties to the republic, and to hi
|
1323 1 0
|
The doctors said, when she was born, that the gills would eventually fade away on their own. Nothing to fear, they said; no more unusual than the rare child born with a tail, or a dense pelt of fur, or a single sharp tooth jutting from its new pink gums.
|
1323 11 5
|
The spectacle of weather/
on the prairies approaches.
|
1323 0 0
|
Meanwhile it was four o'clock in the morning, Pacific time. Seven o'clock eastern. The cat was busy chasing imaginary mice around the hammock—at least Manuel hoped the mice were imaginary. He loaded the next digital images onto the screen. It seemed to
|
1323 7 6
|
I almost caught a poet today.
|
1323 5 5
|
Another year has flown, crashed to the ground, and convulsed to its death in a final match with the meaninglessness of existence. Decided to try my luck as a Walmart greeter this year but the apomorphine treatment made me break out in hives and I reacted…
|
1323 2 1
|
Sometimes when I fall I see a ...
|
1323 3 2
|
The were two things and two things only in the town of Comfort, Alabama, that were older than Bella.
|
1323 9 8
|
6. to register for the draft
|
1323 3 2
|
sometimes it's hard/ to leave the house in the morning/ when bed is so comfortable/ and you're so far away.
|
1323 6 5
|
His shirts he hangs on the back of the chair, one on top the other so they won't wrinkle.
|
1323 7 4
|
The marble, it's just there.
I can't explain
how it got there
(or when),
all I know
is that everything
is in that marble.
By "everything,"
I mean every
thing. Your breakfast?
It's there.
|
1323 4 4
|
So for now, let the snow fall, but
let it fall gently,
each flake as a soft piano note
|
1323 6 2
|
We’re going to talk about our future like the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40. Like there are 40 great songs this week about our future.
|
1323 4 1
|
Describe my origami, the shape of a gun or a limp dick, or maybe a flower.
|
1323 3 2
|
Mother told me that I would go to the moon. But she did not tell me that on Diwali night, the moon hid himself on the other side of the sky.
|
1323 13 5
|
The year begins well here
with much needed rain
and tee-shirt temperatures.
|
1322 10 5
|
an engine stalls out
in the parking lot
the driver
tears her skirt
coming through the door
|
1322 2 1
|
In the ’70′s, Bigfoot was romantically linked with Farrah Fawcett, spotted in an Arkansas 7-11 with Elvis, and tabbed the front-runner to be Secretary of the Interior had Gerald Ford defeated Jimmy Carter.
|
1322 4 1
|
Wicklow sat in the handicapped stall, pants down and straining, fed up to here with a world in which he couldn’t even take a decent crap.
|
1322 13 12
|
My wife, Sheila, inadvertently clicked my e-mail address, too, when she sent her reply back to him and I read her poet friend's message that her love opened the window of his heart and she replied that his words were knocks that opened the door to her being, then I stood…
|
1322 3 2
|
A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
|
1322 9 0
|
Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.
|
1322 12 8
|
Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
|
1322 5 4
|
Mon wakes up surrounded by trees. The light is grey, the trunks black.How long have I slept? he wonders.He doesn't know which way to walk. In every direction, the same prospect of trees. He looks up at a blank sky. No sign even of the sun.***He starts walking. Slowly,…
|
1322 10 7
|
and where have the years sped
how distant was your youth
|
1322 1 1
|
You’re listening to Smooth FM, taking you from the darkest hours to the start of a brand new day.
|
1322 0 0
|
And God said unto the oil can: “Thou art cursed above the cattle, and above every beast of the field. And deep the ground shalt thou go.”
“Mother,” said the oil can, “fucker!”
|
1322 5 1
|
1. Research how to locate and outline the chin of a toy terrier. Find a toy terrier, outline its chin, then count the hairs on said chin to determine the number of lines your poem will have.
|