1281 5 5
|
Seems I was in the wrong place, wrong time.
|
128171
|
The new poetry
comes in shining
metal boxes
covered in glass
so you can peer in.
|
128130
|
Thérèse Defarge felt the first drop around ten.
|
128100
|
The Gringovitch family was gathered in the lobby of the hotel. The boys sat on the floor using their packs as back supports. Francesca Gringovitch sat on a chair with the remaining luggage in front of her.
|
128174
|
|
128141
|
We call this game the end of the world...
|
128100
|
Watching the surroundings, the school proceeded on with no threat in sight. The Circle of Four entered inside Azure’s classroom where she sat next to a window.
|
128051
|
Samson was also somewhat in hopes that his son Jason would become engaged in this minor capitalist enterprise and 'turned around' in his life.
|
128020
|
He once owned a dog named Bark. As a kid, he was kicked out of the Boy Scouts of America. His childhood nickname was “Sleepy.” When he was little, and alone, he used to sing songs to God. When he joined Second City in 1973, the troupe was…
|
128031
|
This was not a good sign, comforting gestures from strangers were bad omens.
|
128001
|
It looks like Arizona, like a desert with secrets. The bed unfolded and she was being good today. She would be good, no matter how he moved and laughed she would be a lady. The names of the flowers escaped her, flowers she'd always known. All she saw were waterlilies.…
|
128033
|
I will not leave the boat.
The sea has left you.
|
128065
|
I texted a wickety-split, tax-declaring New York-based international escort, a moonlighting, all-pro Kit, whose day job on Wall Street yields no bonus.
|
128022
|
“Miss Brown had spent the morning (was it just this morning? Or another?) purchasing parsnips and leafy green vegetables from the local grocers, when she was overcome by a wave of nausea. The world went black and she awoke in a windowless, doorless room.
|
128043
|
And her life runs like clockwork. And the kids wouldn’t get to school without her, and the paychecks wouldn’t arrive and the taxes wouldn’t get paid. And she listens to religion and country and God telling her how to run her life, what to do and when. B
|
128040
|
He almost died, but hasn’t been this much alive ever.
|
128022
|
Let your father stay
through that dinner
when his mistress needed him,
while your mother was on the verge.
|
128043
|
Your father's remembrance and memorial would be inappropriate for me to attend. never mind the truth the searing…
|
127922
|
The Church of Chimera, which has tentacles in most cities, would like you to accept the existence of MEGACROCODOG, invisible possessor of the largest penis imaginable. You are promised an afterlife of bliss, as long as you pray to MEGACROCODOG and say his penis is the…
|
127996
|
" No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."--T.S. EliotI think, okay now I know, the poem's starting to wear off. But I'm alive, at least…
|
127987
|
|
127921
|
I remember taking you to see all these sexy movies because it really built up the passion in you. I loved what you did to me when we got back home after those movies. That’s when we were just trying out our dating wings.
I don’t know if you knew how
|
127920
|
As we follow the trail and things snap beneath our feet, I tell myself that the snapped things take pleasure, find purpose even, in the sounds they make with my soles.
|
127900
|
Their laughter is of a tiny world that knows nothing of taxes or lost loves, or news reports of flag-draped coffins filled with limbs.
|
127972
|
"The tundra was as cold and barren as Mother Theresa's womb."
|
127933
|
This world is always at least as strange as it seems, but usually far more strange, so many non-repeatable phenomena . . . .
|
127901
|
I felt my words reach out and try to grab him by the heart. They missed.
|
127922
|
The boss has a serious problem--he's too nice for his own good.
|
127900
|
"It all began with a painting," I said. "Mostly blue. Acrylic. Naturalistic in a modern sense. She was stylized but recognizable, and her breasts were exposed. Everyone could see her disordered skirt. The painter was a fan of Herrick.
|
127910
|
I bow my head
and shed the antlers
of past lives
I no longer butt heads
with the universe
but I miss my curse
and can’t do worse
I throw myself in reverse
and rehearse the early scenes
of science and my
full meat diet
that sent
|
