1238 6 5
|
You don’t want to tango with me, she said.
|
123800
|
|
123810
|
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
|
123831
|
When I bumped my head I almost fell to the ground Not so much stars As flashes of lights That looked like sparklers My mother chasing the dog She never catches it The cat sits on a nearby chair It's head moving as the dog does …
|
123821
|
Tonight’s concert was called Desert.
|
123843
|
I'm re-invented on Main St. every single day.
|
123711
|
Writers, in general, enjoy the solitude that their profession allows, or more precisely, requires. I consider myself a member of that generalized group, along with a more exclusive club of writers who also tolerate an occasional…
|
12371310
|
I realize that to say, "I do not believe in God" is footsteps away from "I do not rely on God" and "God left me."
|
123720
|
The alcohol is on my mind, on my mind, on my mind
|
123774
|
—A little blood puts some life into the work, said the old artisan smiling.
|
123721
|
I liked her when I first saw herShe came to meI liked her hair and body and eyesBu there was something wrong with Her teethScarred beautyI hit it off with her easily at the barThe others didn't like herShe was a cookShe told me about her narcolepsy, ADHD, Tourettes…
|
123721
|
I’ll bet
You got bit by Snake Charmer Boy
And your world fell out from under you
|
123755
|
Obituaries aren’t as much fun
as they used to be.
|
123744
|
Then there is Ethelbert's husband whom Ethelbert hasn't met yet, and who has literally weighed in, as if fed up and tired of waiting for a long, in full length, needless, wake up story. That is when Ethelbert asks, "Amy who?" related to a different group
|
123700
|
For some reason in my daydream he would use the formal “ma'am” to approach me, despite the fact that we were in a swarm of sweaty grunting men in the basement that smelled like feral animal feces and jock straps.
|
123730
|
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…
|
123730
|
Walking east, he pauses,
Picks a cassava,
Cleaves the melon in two;
He tears juicy chunks
Of flesh to cleanse the blade.
|
1237119
|
|
123795
|
Someone must bear witness//
at a comfortable remove.
|
123711
|
I want to fly like a snail. Yes, snails fly in their minds, so does the brain of the ocean.
Does a man want to drown in the ersatz of desire?
You must understand me. You and I swam together. They call it escape velocity.
|
123721
|
Listening too much to the night, with its whistles, bright lights of luminescent bursts like leaves on fire, or the raised ear of a cow in the purple mist, or the curled tail of a pig foraging in the night.
|
123752
|
Red leaves
green trees
wind chimes tune
|
123754
|
cold plunges its lethal chill spade/into the dirt before cold takes the earth/to ossify it stiff with ice/the semblance of cold the semblance of death/said only to be felt this side of the grave.
|
123711
|
god's seed is asleep in the carseat
|
123700
|
You already had me in all your other paintings. You already had me in every possible position. Underwater, in a car seat, on your back lawn at night with lightning coming from the west, bending over to sniff a rose, with my panties down around my knees.
|
1237126
|
Agamemnon and Menelaus were/
complete creeps. Achilles was//
a pompous piece of shit.
|
123743
|
This grey is going to kill me
|
123632
|
driving and standing in front of the same car
|
123654
|
|
123654
|
She laughed as she stuck up the word flaccid,
it kept falling down
|
