1149 3 3
|
How long has this been going on? the admitting nurse asks.
|
114971
|
Drink tons of water they keep telling me...
|
114842
|
“Oh, I shouldn’t complain, I guess, but she did tend to get a leetle bit too caught up in that Hindernet thing, but I suppose that’s something younger people do today. Why, she didn’t even hear me when I would ask her for something! Can you imagine?”
|
114800
|
Slowly, she eased me
into my place
where I melted
into the dark seat
|
114832
|
Junior year, word got around that Eric had lost his virginity to his sophomore girlfriend. She rode him on the back seat of his car. Eric wasn't keen to discuss it - he seemed to feel a certain blushing shame. It was almost as if he was raped.Eric was a scientist, first and…
|
114820
|
I wanted those jelly rolls so bad I could scream
|
114830
|
this orient tide come occident: this roll of wreck and reckoned eyes that fathomless are found or made to find her keep within the tight shut shell in soundings deeper than the plumblined soul these western waves gone east: these…
|
114800
|
Once upon a mind-flight
Leary with the tripping became weary
Of the psychedelic travel
Felt the universe unravel
|
114811
|
I love you, I said. A beautiful smile struggled through the pain. But I love you more.
|
114851
|
It was the truth, you'd say. Then someone else would step in, someone who knew the situation. It wasn't long before the entire population of our sleepy little town became accustomed to your routine. It was even welcome in some circles. Those circles were made up…
|
114875
|
I thought I heard
Follow your heart
On the cold, cold
Night of the soul
I thought I heard
Follow your heart, follow your heart
On this coldest night
Of the soul
Leaves on fire, leaves on fire
They told me look
Into the flames
To
|
11481512
|
Will it//
scare us shitless when we can finally/
draw ourselves a likeness of it?
|
114854
|
Devour my horror, embrace it as yours
|
114800
|
Mike Summer's moustache was perfect. Hard bristle and so symmetrical it looked cut to the angles of a military imperative. He was pretty proud of it, thought the team of beaters, who watched him as he sat on the boot ledge of his sage green Mercedes 123 T, combing…
|
114755
|
Every six weeks or so, he and I would argue. I would argue. He would listen. He raised me twenty-five cents each time. I suppose that is a bad habit for me to have gotten into—to get pissed about rates and to fight to get a raise.
|
114700
|
VIII. Towards Affinities, Beyond My love, since I saw you last, since before we reached the chamber, I cannot count the quasars which have passed, but there still gleams Time, Like a memory of a lost event unwitnessed, and this illusion Carried…
|
114754
|
The renegade states- Virginia, Georgia,/
Texas, and the rest- should have lost their names
|
114744
|
“Everyone you see is half asleep. And you're on your own, you're in the street.” -John Lennon What we can muster now is a few choice words of humor, but unfortunately that won't show them anything that they haven't seen…
|
114723
|
The earmuffs, a fine pale green, are tilted slightly to the left, threatening to quash her in their magnitude. Her eyes, sharp sparkling blue, focus for a flash, looking for applause or assurance, or perhaps just approval. Safe, behind…
|
114720
|
When I was nine years old, I fell through the rotting
boards that covered my grandmother's cesspool and nearly
drowned.
|
114710
|
“Living rooms,” said the town drunk, “are incapable of emanating.”
|
114722
|
the impression I had gotten of him was that he was fifty percent yuppie and fifty percent drug dealer from Marin.
|
114721
|
The rhythm of my breathing
is a litany of regret.
|
114720
|
It is no coincidence that the bossa nova craze coincided with the years in which I achieved my greatest romantic success--first through sixth grades.
|
114700
|
|
114674
|
—A little blood puts some life into the work, said the old artisan smiling.
|
114663
|
“Professor Gosser,”continued Victor, “I once screwed three women in a row--I mean of course, time, not space—good one, huh? Well, each woman farted at the exact moment she climaxed. Would that qualify as coincidence? And did it have anything to do with th
|
114610
|
I liked E first because she knew all the words to "Alice's Restaurant." Everybody knows "American Pie," but "Alice's," that's impressive. We used to cut class in high school and drive around listening to it, and I'd try to pretend I knew the words, but I never did, so…
|
114642
|
She was the clerk in the photography shop.
|
114662
|
I found a field
where all the
unanswered prayers
were once buried
but someone
someone
someone had
dug them up
again
and was putting
them
to good use
|
