1443 4 2
|
Frank left Michiko’s building and walked into Central Park.
|
144331
|
okay fine, on the count of three
|
144234
|
My friend, drunk, spoke to me / outside a bar where we hung out; / and his eyes were red from tiredness,
|
144201
|
On the ridge in front of them, appeared a creature, neither man had ever seen before, standing taller than their horses, the strange beast walked on two powerful legs...
|
144299
|
How many exceptional people/
does it take to change a light bulb?
|
144231
|
He fought off the U-boat packs in the Atlantic — one hand on the tiller, one on the torpedo launch button.
|
144250
|
An expanse of trees, grass, scrub, heathers, sky, space. A grey horse, the type her gran would have placed a bet on, approaches. "Don't like flies?" he asks. He holds her gaze, walks closer. Seventeen black flies crawl over the right side of his head. "What…
|
144255
|
The world is a mighty funny place. It spins wildly and we are held down by its strong ghostly gravity. We're still able to communicate with one another over morning coffee and delicious cake donuts dipped in chocolate. Some of us used to keep…
|
1442119
|
I lay on a table in a cold room in one of those little blue gowns that open in back.
|
144286
|
One by one the hundred matte black drones hummed awake. The buzz was loud on the tiny airfield but died out soon among the waving amber heads of Kansas wheat that surrounded the unsigned base.
|
144234
|
Richard gets me started, tells me to undress the two women mannequins in the storefront window
|
144200
|
My Mother always said that a storm was death knocking.
|
144242
|
She sat in a tall chair and there was only one time in the interview that she took her sunglasses off. She didn't really take them off, but just pulled them down for an instant with thumb and forefinger in order to look out at something going past the window. They said…
|
144222
|
He sees the dogs through the window, his babies, sleeping on opposite ends of the couch. His girl, lying supine, hind legs spread, grotesquely, almost comically, as far as they can without being flush with the cushion. His boy, Cosmo, face down, the power…
|
144200
|
A woman confronts her suspicions about her husband's fidelity.
|
144121
|
Q: Tell me briefly about how you got into the death industry.
|
144165
|
|
144154
|
Along with Bad Bunny
comes the reckless dancing
the ambulance chases
and the long, drawn-on faces
|
144100
|
Robbie took me out to Fox River on his father's ski boat one day, as he often did — but this time it was my eighteenth birthday. That was when he opened up his robe and showed me all there was to show of himself, begging me to make love to him, saying h
|
144133
|
Sad to tears, not bubbly, ordered as all in Madison, outpatient by Elizabeth Karlin, internist, later a bullet-proof vest abortion provider.
|
144154
|
Star-eaterHere lies the star-eater.Tilting on the ancient wheelof summer-glaze-breath,you speak the oceans. Fire's the mealfor you, the star-eater. You defy death,and out of your mouth, a universe openspouring forth, as fleet as the starslight on your tongue. Space…
|
144100
|
While sipping Earl Grey tea in the tent of Princess Citronella, I could hear the nightime burping of several camels outside trying to settle down. A slight breeze entered in through an opened flap and gently vibrated a piece of paper the Princess was handing me. A dog…
|
14411410
|
It was 14:24 official eBay time. Louise had spent hours looking at over 30,000 items under “Elvis Memorabilia"
|
144120
|
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,
|
144175
|
|
144100
|
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…
|
144123
|
I will admit it. // I cannot write poetry / to save my life—
|
144121
|
Then there was this short little girl, Jo Ann, who had a daughter and was divorced, who lived next door to my buddy Andy. She told me right after we did it one night that she had always wanted to have sex with me when she was growing up, as a teenager, I
|
144185
|
Picture it-/
air not clogged with the shit//
that makes Beijing the dark joke/
of the developed world.
|
144100
|
Giant stars are beautiful, when you stand directly in front of them.But touching them, is a whole other story.Junior had touched one. A strong burning sensation flew through his arm and down his spine. A feeling of electrocution and burning at the same…
|
