1321 5 4
|
They have their own homes to fill with bought and sold dreams. Their own babies to care for and feed. The world is big enough to have more layers than you can ever imagine. The lights will show you a way when you have turned too dark for your own…
|
1321107
|
and where have the years sped
how distant was your youth
|
132110
|
Talking to Shakespeare by the riverside,
I am saddened by my lust for women,
how my eyes fixate on the spit that passes from top to bottom lip as they talk to me.
|
132111
|
You’re listening to Smooth FM, taking you from the darkest hours to the start of a brand new day.
|
132132
|
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.
|
132162
|
Mom stayed up all night again Tending to her papers Pushing them around Trying to make order of the debts, the dreams and the obligations She couldn't get the columns to add up, So she shuffled them around some more and Rearranged the piles …
|
132142
|
Last night we slept with books in the bed.
|
132064
|
I'd wear my pajamas too, fitting for the big sleep
|
1320105
|
an engine stalls out
in the parking lot
the driver
tears her skirt
coming through the door
|
132000
|
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
|
132021
|
Sometimes when I fall I see a ...
|
132041
|
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.
|
132032
|
A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
|
132032
|
The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the Magazine of the Museum of Everything
|
132000
|
Fat Patty sniffs the delicate waft of peat and sidles over, proffering a grope in exchange for a few wet-lipped swigs. Hell yes.
|
132053
|
Any form of exertion would defile what we are trying to do
|
132000
|
Behind the bellicose façade lay a soft, compassionate soul. He sat within a swirl of rosy twilight hues, buoyed by the gently creeping tide. A dark wall approached and he mechanically spun and began stroking into the glassy canvas of light and ocean that lay between him…
|
132090
|
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.
|
1320128
|
Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
|
132043
|
"You're no good at sex, no good at drugs and, god knows, no good at rock and roll."
|
132021
|
Only fragments of their lives survive, like broken Sapphos. I have known them, alleged killer of themselves for the love of a man., but we know this is an invention. The leader of a whole guild of girls, who wrote 7 books of poems. What happened to them
|
132065
|
It sits up tall on its hind legs to take in all of whatever this is, big and bluer than the sky, death's own taxicab parked on its doorstep.
|
132022
|
|
131910
|
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.
|
131922
|
At a candlelit table near the back of the restaurant, Jack and Lois greeted the waiter as he delivered their drinks, a diet coke for him, and for her, a vodka and cranberry. He apologized for the slow bar service and promised to return in a moment to take their…
|
131910
|
the honesty of bodies & the lies hidden under skin.
|
131965
|
I know someone in need of healing.
|
131954
|
. . . how a body calls
in the dark. . .
|
131998
|
6. to register for the draft
|
131998
|
It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.
|
