1415 6 3
|
...my books have lots of swear words. So there's that.
|
1415 4 3
|
Cliffs are not all I've known, but I've seen them every day since I came to light. When I first broke out of the shell that protected me from feet and poisons, I pushed my way into darkness. It was soil. I could not have survived if it was light, and when I surfaced there…
|
1415 0 0
|
I made a man of men. He made a man of me, the way all men are finished, in tragedy and sorrow. Together, we make a story, for other men, brothers and sisters.
|
1415 4 2
|
The air smells like dream, like farm shit, like the salty stalling of evolution.
|
1415 7 4
|
Jim Morrison moved
ever so slightly
in the cold of his grave
|
1415 4 1
|
I was like a bullet shot from a university tower
|
1415 5 5
|
They’ve deduced she’s still of sound mind and body. What do they know?
|
1415 0 0
|
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…
|
1415 0 0
|
the darkness held frieghtened by the surveillance of a distant white shimmer.
|
1415 0 0
|
A woman confronts her suspicions about her husband's fidelity.
|
1414 10 6
|
a girl in a red cap
flashes by
|
1414 5 5
|
Due to recent enhancements to our billing system, the rate per unit for your basic service can no longer be determined.
|
1414 5 4
|
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…
|
1414 0 0
|
the strength in you i envy/ leaves me naked, sweating in the dust/ while you possess what ethic i pretend to have/ in the face of those who expect from me/ so much more.
|
1414 0 0
|
The other night at work, some kid was in for swallowing a snail's shell. He was nine and, according to the computer, did not have cognitive insufficiency. That last bit was probably put there to make us all not feel guilty about laughing at him.
|
1414 4 1
|
Jeans. You passed yours along to me with some helpful tips.
|
1414 3 5
|
Does God feel the same way /
whenever you practice your indifference toward me
|
1414 2 2
|
I’m just your ordinary poem,
|
1414 1 1
|
“I love women. They’re like goddesses.”
|
1414 7 6
|
You look at me with that contemptuous smirk while I'm here in Walmart dressed in sweats and house slippers, sloppy, a bit fat, trying to figure out which electric toothbrush to buy.
|
1414 0 0
|
Make paddles of his hands
Use his skull to bail
Rig his thigh bones for a mast
And his skin to make a sail
|
1414 3 3
|
cummings starts to sniff, his usual routine. He feigns aloofness while raising one wolfy leg to pee on Eliot's sneakers.
|
1413 0 0
|
Character & Fitness, the opening chapter to my novel, "Death of the Dying City."
|
1413 4 1
|
Camilla and I watched a movie, then we were the movie. A man wandered in a decrepit house, or in a dream of a house, which had wallpaper hanging like shredded flesh and little mounds of filth and a madwoman with a butcher knife creeping from room to room with fear or…
|
1413 11 6
|
Unless they leave you comatose,/
it’s the disasters you remember.
|
1413 14 4
|
. . . once you start reading and thinking about what he's saying, it's like looking at the reflection of your soul in a mirror . . .
|
1413 1 3
|
Seeing her in black /
with his arm around her /
from the other side /
of a glass door. /
He gave her a beer. /
She might’ve been thirsty, /
uncomfortable.
|
1413 14 10
|
It was 14:24 official eBay time. Louise had spent hours looking at over 30,000 items under “Elvis Memorabilia"
|
1413 1 1
|
A Halloween drabble. Happy Halloween to all!
|
1413 0 0
|
I imagine Gene Simmons licking a twelve year old girl that looks like Erin dressed in a dog collar and leash.
|