1294 8 7
|
The musician’s wife had a roving eye. He didn't care. He liked being married to a wild and crazy woman.
|
129472
|
and the President didn't call.
|
1294127
|
When exactly does cheese go bad? it simply does not, I say.
|
129477
|
The arithmetic of human experience/
is always a losing game for some. Poor Jane. Rich Dick.
|
129420
|
"No idea yet, why it was so important, what could it possibly mean to her? Was it someone who she knew, a distant relative, a character for her novel, something was just so strangely haunting about it that she could see it even when she did not have it in
|
129443
|
Reams of saggy bunting intersect the streets.
|
129460
|
Where the fuck are my keys?Where the hell is my phone?Where the fuck are my keys?Where the hell is my phone?Where the fuck are my keys?Where the hell is my phone?Where the fuck are my keys?Where the hell is my phone?Where the fuck are my keys?Where the hell is my…
|
129471
|
The sound of a siren approaches his home. His wife asks him why he's so nervous. It's nothing, he says, but he rises from the couch and peers into the night from behind the curtains. The siren approaches relentlessly. The road twists and turns and the sound fades but always…
|
129400
|
Wait a minute, said Ben. What do we really know?
|
129430
|
The last time my old lady threw me out, I decided to go and stay with my brother. I thought, "That's the last place I'll be welcome," and I knew that was true. The drive was calming, which was good, because Steven wouldn't have even let me in if I…
|
129422
|
mind heart soul will blood sweat tears muscle, and bone,/and then always something else—not more, just else . . .
|
129432
|
She is not centered, but she finds her way.
|
129400
|
Lulls, and the gulls, amid the tides and their tears (And I join their voices and my heart is run), Though each or neither takes no part in my fears, I join no hands with the beach or the years (And the ships slip near plus yon). Held handfast,…
|
129422
|
They can’t help
Seeing a child even there
In the crude brushstrokes.
They say it is me.
|
129451
|
As a kid he had run away from the family farm and shoveled coal back East to put himself through college. Now he was just another old man in a nursing home, desperate for a drink, his blue eyes bleary, a sticky goo filming at the corners of his lips.
|
129300
|
“A lot of kids–granted, kids who aren’t too bright–will choose a school because of its mascot, and that’s what Chipper is all about,” he says.
|
129397
|
“I fly in my dreams,” his mother said. “It's my privilege.”
|
129331
|
NO IDEAS FROM HERE Tape The knife that tore the envelope tore the apricot. What was it? Water The boxes ranked against the open room. Watch So it was cut the water bright the tub. Say …
|
129355
|
The redwood trees were taller than dreams
|
129300
|
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
|
129363
|
While most spread their time in other occupation, I traveled through books and grew my imagination. I knew endless bliss. I was a book eater. I would just devour books that I loved and slug through those I didn't, just to make myself eat the truths and li
|
129312
|
I slept and it was pleasant. Then there was the kiss, and it was hot. Later you turned away, and all was November chill. Now there are touches, caresses and shouts, Marvelous nights flavored with favors bestowed, and blackened days,…
|
1293128
|
the tall, thin ectomorph sat
on the verdant, green grass
as the unclothed naked woman
on the Sunday-picnic blanket
poured white cow’s milk
into a vodka shot glass
|
129343
|
Man, this bearskin rug was a big, awkward sonofabitch on his back....
|
129300
|
I considered my choices, then asked the question that has brought my wife so much pain over the years. "Which is cheaper?"
|
129333
|
I imaged him at his mother's house, eating chicken and tabouli with her at her round marble table, leaning back and laughing, then reading my “love you” and excusing himself to cry in the bathroom.
|
129387
|
In the quiet dark, fathers reappear.
|
129311
|
Adam hitched his dinosaur to a covered wagon. He drove the Virgin Mary to the Faire. Shiva rode behind them in a silver limousine combing out his long and flowing hair.
|
12931611
|
On Monday, May 7, 2018, at the age of 67, I had a stroke.
|
129230
|
Get a Hold of God
Get a hold of God, will you?
I have seen a lot
I saw
a Great Dane
licking the dew off
an orange bird of
paradise
Get a hold of God
and tell him that
Get a hold of God
and give him a piece of
my m
|
