1384 4 1
|
|
138410
|
|
13831612
|
ARROGANT MAGNOLIA, the first to open all, poised ten feet above our fuss. …
|
138320
|
When she was just a little bit younger, Dana wanted to be known around town as something other than the girl who used up all the machines at the laundromat with her little brothers' Spiderman underwear and her grandpa's pants soiled with God-knows-what. Something…
|
1383188
|
he who laughs last is probably a dumbass fuck
|
138342
|
One day, every girl I’ve ever slept with showed up on my lawn.
|
1383179
|
...a session/
of hide and seek/
among the syllables.
|
138343
|
I used to fear things. The lonesome wind come through the clapboards. Dry hillsides rustling. My own skin in the summer heat. Rattlers. Lurking. Abandoned coal pits. Pa said I was afraid of desolation. I didn't know what he meant by that. How can you be…
|
138300
|
I know I used to say I’d rather walk on the moon with my own rapacity. And you can easily say things like that, given the luxuriance of youth. But it was a lie, if you want to know the truth. That is only so much hot balloon air, puffed up in the chest,
|
138340
|
I'm an artist, baby. We make our own rules.
|
13831813
|
After her grief had subsided, the wife felt immediate relief. / Suddenly she was free to abandon or pursue loneliness
|
138392
|
i watch my mind not wanting to touch the vanished rusty notes remain objects of consciousness heaven and hell inside us each moment birds fly through mental speech dark garden rain olive green cool breath of betrayal siempre mixed with greed awakens…
|
138321
|
For the sake of convenience, we must assume that everything ugly is evil. Lightning rejuvenates. Sulfur preserves. The obvious solution is dismemberment. The ghost appears to Ludwig; “How can you destroy my creation?”
|
138320
|
Pascal would let something slip now and then. He was sharp and spoke excellent English, with a beautiful Spanish accent. He corrected speech among the guys, but he exercised his lessons in grammar with an eloquence that fascinated all of us, not letting a
|
138233
|
You, who reaches in, touches me in that moment of decision, and knows I’ll be everything you’ve looked forward to tonight.
|
138240
|
|
138221
|
He keeps re-reading the menu but knows already how it ends..
|
138297
|
a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
ticket
|
138264
|
" . . . with twinges of dread and pangs guilt, I worry . . . "
|
138261
|
They had both discovered, though, that when people stared at them now, away from the carnival, it was very different. There, they were supposed to be odd, it was what people expected. Here, they were supposed to fit in.
|
138200
|
|
138233
|
It is dead, for a time.
Sometimes we are all dead for a time.
Our lives leave off, sleep under the weight of snow.
|
138232
|
^ through a busted window in this desert…
|
138244
|
I just sit here thinking
You’re cheating on me again
It’s how you acted last time
The same as it’s ever been
Don’t wanna go ballistic
What’s inside your head?
Why don’t you just tell me
Who’s been sleeping in that bed
|
138276
|
We wanted so much to find ourselves in a beautiful world. It was, and is, but every inviting leaf has got another hidden dangerous precedent that must be surrendered to in order to survive to see another sunset with the ones you actually…
|
138221
|
This energy said, "Fuck it, I am going to be the fucking sun."
In it’s language it sounded more like "Khershhhhhhh Hhhhhhhhhhh Zirshhhhhhh."
|
138120
|
Her plastic shopping bag brushes your leg. You look into it and all you see is a 2 liter of Coke, a bag of Lay’s potato chips and a package of Oreos. It’s so oddly touching, so purely American, that your heart breaks a little bit. You want to hug t
|
138173
|
The drone of radio seeps into the car’s back seat… I hear only bits and pieces of information –
|
138121
|
A bridge not satisfied with just crossing the river - It slashed through the sky, crashed through nature - Creating a new nature, a double-decker
|
138187
|
The lecturers are retired professors from Oxford or Cambridge. They are snarky and wise and aloof.
|
