1398 8 7
|
arrogant, sullen,/
supple and ambiguous,//
English seems the ideal tongue
|
139801
|
The Devil’s laugh was the screech of wind. Ignacio Carillo heard Him as he dug the grave that would hold the body of his beloved wife.
|
139840
|
"Well, you certainly can't be marrying him then .. "
|
139800
|
Was he really a Secret Service guy? No time to think now! Quick as lightning, Rachel bounded over the sleeping matron and sprinted up the aisle.
|
139877
|
Spring Squirrel Spring is here now A dead squirrel in the road Regrettably not Seasonal Surprise Inside warm spring rain Coiled up like Jack in the Box Resides a snow storm Bad Vibrations telephone shouting an…
|
139874
|
NO ONE CAN BE A BASTARD FOREVER
|
139853
|
Somewhere between the bleating of sheep
And the laying of eggs
Comes the licking of frosting
And the eating of the cake
We’re not young enough
To know everything anymore
And you may think there’s no rush
But I know this
There’s a limit t
|
139831
|
The whole scene smells like paranoia.
|
139821
|
Did I refer to Mark Twain’s typewriter as an animal? Did I call it a hyena? I would not say that about Mark Twain’s typewriter.
|
139810
|
it is heavier than it looks with edges smoothed by the passage of time
|
139833
|
"Let somebody else deal with for a while, man, I'm tired."
|
139832
|
The worm was stabbed where two rivers branch:/ the thing that would slay was slain.
|
139880
|
She plucks two eggs from the carton, weighs and measures them with the cup of her palm, the curve of her fingers.
|
139820
|
"The rider rode his bike in Arizona just about every day and for all the usual reasons....."
|
1397136
|
I said he was cold. I said I like cold.
|
139710
|
|
139795
|
My relationship with Uzma exists on several levels, from basic to abstract, from animal magnetism to spiritual journey.
|
13971615
|
|
139710
|
I heard them calling my name. “Will passenger Karen Anderson please come to flight desk Six Fourteen? Flight 912 is ready for takeoff. This is your last call.”
“Mario, did you hear that?” I asked. “We’re on the wrong plane!”
|
139710
|
He was triply satisfied: he’d come twice and he was a damn good-looking man.
|
139700
|
When we crossed the California/Oregon border, I had this
vivid image of sleeping bags filled with human bones. I shook
my head and the scene would not go away. The woods must be
full of dead campers, hitch hikers, run-a-ways, and black
teenage whores
|
139701
|
No one told us that the LZ was already hot and the last Combat Mobile Team had already been shot down and killed. No, no one told us that. So when we came in below about 500 feet I began to hear that "pitit" sound of AK-47 rounds going right through the f
|
139798
|
After you lost sight in your left eye, mom made me go on the road with you that last summer to help you see.
|
139743
|
The blooms are practical/
and cannot see themselves
|
139710
|
Us kids in left field steal out bedroom windows after dark to pinch hit Lucky Strikes between first and second fingers, arc the glow of shop-lifted hot-boxed cigarettes over the chain link homerun fence sprawl on perfectly ridiculous grass passing a bottle…
|
139721
|
“You think it’s a self-castrating suicide note or a self-righteous freedom speech?”
“Probably just the ramblings of a madman, pissed he lost a company baseball game.”
“Fuckin-A, Pete! Double-murder suicide for a baseball game? Ain’t nobody that craz
|
139783
|
The particles of dust didn't want to be looked at
|
139743
|
Skulk like a lovespun spider in a record store corner
on the orange formica subway car
|
139711
|
I planned and planned. I followed the veterinarians around and I took vials of panda tranquilizers when they were not looking, and it was often that they forgot to look. The earth kept shaking, they were hungry, and many did not know what had become of th
|
139700
|
Gibson Park, underneath the grove of trees beside the soccer field. She's buried. But don't say anything yet. Her disappearance will make the news shortly, but it hasn't yet.
|
