1330 1 1
|
. . . I wanted to put Tiffany out of her misery and mine and shove her in front of the next large vehicle hurtling down the drive-through lane . . . .
|
133011
|
Joseph and his little brother, Kevin, were there again. Kevin was too small to understand what had happened yet. He would usually just go off, running around the statues and playing with the wreaths; the last time they'd visited he climbed a tree and broke one of the…
|
133000
|
I watched as you tried to fit yourself quite awkwardly into the small chair. Your eyes fluttered curiously around my house, and I smiled to myself. Your vision landed on my smile, and your face wore an expression of puzzlement."What are you smiling at?" you asked, your…
|
133044
|
Poems reflect their poets. /
Mine: ugly but loved. /
It is just as well.
|
133042
|
Standing there as you walked away from me that late March afternoon, in the park off Meridian Street, the spring tableau seemed
|
1330127
|
If you find a lone, sad honeybee, buy a Habitrail cage and make it your new pet.
|
132911
|
Now that you can go to a body shop and get nearly any mod you can imagine printed and attached in about an hour, every cracker-ass redneck is sporting a twelve-point rack...
|
132900
|
-Someone could have boosted this easy as pie, Ben said to himself.
|
132997
|
communication/
with the dead
|
132922
|
He cleaned off the pump with a steel brush. Then he took it out to the pressure washer. Out there was where a lady that looked like a witch used to move around and sit on the fences like a crow. The air was humid, and the men were dressed in heavy blue coveralls.…
|
132911
|
There’s a room
Full of white
And it smells
Like bleach and
Iron
|
132932
|
The retina was burning, the liquid had dried up, and the veins bursting. My eyes bled. But I kept them open. The sound was like nails on glass, screeching endlessly. Coming close to me louder, harder, faster.
|
132952
|
Someone desperately dials a number.
Iris, draped tight.
|
132942
|
I was sitting there drinking with Paul at the bar, and it was a Friday night and I was I was feelin good. I didn't have to go to work in the morning, and I had a few drinks and food in me, and I able to that on da cheap, which felt good. And Paul…
|
132932
|
Over the last years of her life, my mornings began when Mom decided to play. Sitting on her black, ball-and-claw stool, she'd raise the key cover, stretch her neck and shoulders, and take slow, deliberate breaths. A deep, meditative state descended over the room and…
|
132923
|
I even listen to the Ugly Kid Joe version. I fall asleep perplexed and disheartened.
|
132944
|
Here’s a picture of you
Lit up by the internal light
Of the moon. It was a
Super moon that night
And the story of God
Had not been told
And we had to wait a good
Long time to hear it out in the cold
And I was the King of Fishers
|
132910
|
Seems hot for a Thursday, doesn’t it?
|
1329108
|
toe and hand-/
holds against/
the shear cliff
|
1329178
|
|
132942
|
whatever weaknesses you displayed//
as empathetic human fellow traveler,/
your command of English survives you,//
on into the last echoes of the human/
once we’re gone.
|
132910
|
"The Genius has since abandoned all hope of seeing full remission of the Great Descending Haze in his lifetime."
|
132842
|
He adopts a stance known as Part the Wild Horse’s Mane but calls it a different name--the Part the Hair of the Skanky Barmaid for a Bleachjob position.
|
132821
|
lucy had simply taken a kitchen knife and removed the outer layer, the layer of things people notice
|
132822
|
All the baby monsters are being born on stage.
|
132845
|
She arranged to have an abortion at a doctor Greene’s office, who practiced out of a converted house on Solano Avenue on the north side of Berkeley. I took her there the day of the procedure. You couldn’t go to a regular hospital to have this kind of thi
|
132855
|
The redwood trees were taller than dreams
|
132898
|
we’ll never win/
the ongoing battle with dirt.
|
132853
|
"Do you kiss all of your models?"
|
132875
|
Forgive the doctor/
his hypocrisy -
|
