1299 3 1
|
"The food tastes kind of...off."
|
1299 2 1
|
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
|
1299 3 0
|
I turn the corner and come face to face with Ed, who's stark naked at the kitchen sink. He chugs a glass of hot tap water from a measuring cup and belches loudly. “Good morning,” he says, as he pisses in the sink. “I drink 6 cups of hot tap…
|
1299 0 0
|
Last time I saw the American Dream was Tuesday, down at the Unemployment Office. He was looking pretty worn out, as if being unemployed for over a year was finally getting to him.
|
1299 6 5
|
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.
|
1299 6 3
|
We call it the alley of the shadows, the low sunless concavity of earth between the stalks, the acrid scent of the ripened arrow-points.
|
1299 4 0
|
He almost died, but hasn’t been this much alive ever.
|
1299 1 0
|
There's one graveyard for the part-timers and another for the full-timers. Ours is a little nicer, but we're still all going to hell. Do you remember St. Petersburg? No, you're memory's not that good.
|
1299 0 0
|
the gambling priest stands in the morning fog/red moon hangs in the sky/the army of seven houses marches over the hill
|
1299 6 2
|
Of course, no one can control what goes on in an elevator.
|
1299 3 1
|
But I sense a tremor in your soul as well, young friend, a yearning of some sorts.
|
1299 4 1
|
We call this game the end of the world...
|
1299 2 2
|
Let your father stay
through that dinner
when his mistress needed him,
while your mother was on the verge.
|
1299 5 0
|
Bitter the sun when it is in Hades
High fans meaning nothing keep the heat down
but the nitre keeps burning
So glows the gloss and high sheen on the skin
Foreheads exhibit thought
though the eyes are crossed
and at night, butterflies i
|
1299 12 9
|
The gulls/
have somehow mastered the art//
of avoiding the nooses of six-pack/
plastic rings
|
1298 2 0
|
He sat behind her in Honors English, each day studying everything about her.......
|
1298 0 0
|
Perhaps she’s also a do-gooder. One of those socially conscious, change-the-world type girls complete with a never ending supply of life’s own contagious enthusiasm.
|
1298 2 0
|
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.
|
1298 3 2
|
|
1298 11 9
|
|
1298 0 0
|
-That’s more like it. He released Ben and holstered his gun under his leather jacket.
|
1298 3 2
|
a thinking man's bird
high above
coated with scent
of life
|
1298 0 0
|
They are kind of cool though I’ll admit…pretty types with perfect angles and poise and judicial daddies and shade tree homes, holding their books preciously against their tight bodies as if they’re into academics or something.
|
1298 0 0
|
|
1298 2 2
|
I keep the book when the lessons are done, go through the pages Momma skipped over...
|
1298 1 1
|
never have i wanted/ to stay in one place long,/ flight inspired to escape/ existential ennui--
|
1298 0 0
|
After going to the garage and moving at least 4000 boxes of junk we found the coat rack. We wrestled it up the stairs to my room. I wasn't much help, but Dad was cool about it. I think he was just happy I liked the suit.
|
1298 7 7
|
often visit me in my room, so quietly, so suddenly, buzzing my head with wonderful, possible sentences. Sometimes I find they've been there radiating all along, children ready to burst out in a sneaky fit of laughter if I move just slightly…
|
1298 0 0
|
When the lore of the land could no longer hold the minds of men, they turned their eyes to places where they expected to find no other gaze.
|
1298 4 3
|
|