1389 2 1
|
|
138950
|
I noticed his pistol before his pissbag and I knew then that failure not only had a face but a balding head, too
|
138921
|
“Maybe you should consider dating your terrorist,” my dad said to me. “Most terrorists, I think their problem is they can’t get a date. "
|
138955
|
Due to recent enhancements to our billing system, the rate per unit for your basic service can no longer be determined.
|
138921
|
Ben exited the uptown Broadway Local at 103rd and oriented himself.
|
138911
|
They run nonstop for weeks. Between traffic stalled cars. Down forgotten subways tunnels drilled long ago in the cold earth. Past burning sugarcane fields.
|
138900
|
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh; the rhythmic thrust of Mezereon’s wings…Th-Bumm, th-bumm, th-bumm; the drumming of his heart…Hooou, hooou, hooou; the exhalations of his breath…
|
138942
|
|
138942
|
I had a friend in high school that wore a size G bra and we would take guesses on how much her tits weighed in comparison to the rest of her body. I spent a night wondering how she kept upright.
|
138998
|
I'm pulled in by the music
like a rogue wave
and he has no idea I'm drowning...
|
138974
|
She’d reached me after running through the directory, alphabetically. Apparently no one in the a’s or b’s or c’s before me would talk to her.
|
138922
|
At the Winslow Funeral Home in Winslow, Arizona, just like in the Eagles’ 70s song “Take It Easy,” only I’m not taking it easy.
|
13891612
|
you escape by finding the bubbles
|
1389119
|
I lay on a table in a cold room in one of those little blue gowns that open in back.
|
13891210
|
We are our own pathogens.
|
138997
|
I see them walking. They pass right by my house. If I’m outside, I sit down on our porch and watch the parade. Sometimes I watch them out of a front window.
|
138854
|
Along with Bad Bunny
comes the reckless dancing
the ambulance chases
and the long, drawn-on faces
|
138800
|
She once told me that cleanliness is next to godliness, but I think everything is next to godliness, if you care enough to pay attention.
|
138842
|
Girolamo Dente was nodding off in his studio at Découvrir Art when he heard the alarm.
|
138820
|
If you had gotten pregnant our last time, in 1967 (when you lied and told me “I guess I’m finally over you,”) then our son could have been that man you saw with the drooping moustache and his coattails flying in the lobby of the building in Louisville,
|
138833
|
we ran that afternoon/across Bayshore lanes/into green blooming fields, beyond all those
|
138821
|
They put me in charge of developing a drug that stifles fear.
|
138855
|
My businessman does as his nature allows him. He is so cute. All day long he makes deals. He is on his phone most of the time. He raises his voice. “Fuck those fuckers, just do it,” is what he says. My businessman hedges risk on his investments by keeping…
|
138842
|
there is a tunnel / between your skin and the ground / for kisses to crawl
|
13881710
|
I arrange my stones in circles
|
138841
|
Tiny skiers look like beetles/on a white bedspread. /We watch them fall to earth from/the high peaks and tell ourselves
this is the week that sealed it
|
138844
|
Write me a Will you laughing boy,
|
138844
|
|
138800
|
What do you mean dope in the front seat. I always keep my dope in the trunk. I mean hey, children DO steal.
|
138855
|
Like when she said the word 'but', it came out ‘bet’.
|
