1226 21 14
|
Let routine/
propel you through/
the day after/
the day before.
|
1226 0 0
|
|
1226 29 18
|
It was in the last expulsion/explosion (theories differ) that we became OneWith. Tsunami. Seism. Zud. All matter cast out outcast came back like a gangster on crack. What did it think it was? Who do we think we are? It thinks we think it thinks…
|
1226 0 0
|
Son, could you please step out of the car?
|
1225 5 0
|
The banality of his own state of boredom, a luxury to be satiated with violence, to hack with an axe the exposed neck of his friend.
|
1225 2 0
|
I normally don't photograph well, but today – well, today's different.
|
1225 2 1
|
In certain sense most fractured in each part, the whole Resolves itself more central, but I sense no calm In the cyclone's eye, the forest of the soul, Where plants this eidolon of poisoned charm. This is the secret of the hurricanes, reaping Out from…
|
1225 4 1
|
That was all it took. Thirty seconds.Half of a minute.30: He was standing with me on the corner of the street, 29: waiting for the crosswalk to say it was okay for us to make our way to the other side. 28: The red "do not walk" signal changed to the white "join us over…
|
1225 4 3
|
-- as if I had / only rung the rusted bell --
|
1225 2 3
|
hot,
full
focused,
hypnotic
|
1225 6 3
|
It was as if every wrong foisted upon his ancestors stirred up a war in him and he was charged with intending the canon at the living.
|
1225 0 0
|
That’s where her reputation Wild Cat came from.
|
1225 6 5
|
Things are still being said in a world that sounds like rough bows and straight slicing arrows communicating with (smashing like fists) a poor pool of tired animals. There must also come a time to surprise these same cruel machines…
|
1224 10 2
|
...cinched the handcuffs.
|
1224 4 4
|
“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…
|
1224 6 6
|
You had autumn in your hair
I liked the way you sat at a table
And drank champagne
My past years have carried me
To sixteen countries
Christ, we have so much to share
Listen, I know how the other half lives
And we can’t live like that an
|
1224 2 1
|
The monsters in the sky burst with riotous laughter, their rumbling voices barking out commands, their cracked nails scratching on the screen, their knotted knuckles tap-taping on the window. Little girl, won't you come out to play? She clutches her floral bed sheets,…
|
1224 0 0
|
Marie Poupon-Kennedy wasn’t strangled by one set of hands; there were thirty sets around that long, pale neck.
|
1224 5 2
|
Like the Lady Miss Kier, I believe in the power of love. I believe.
|
1224 0 0
|
I strolled mindlessly along the concrete pavement, the cool breeze carrying the characteristic scent of the night. I stared at the path ahead, but not really looking. My legs continued their automated operations. I didn't know where I was going, but that was all right - I…
|
1224 0 0
|
I am brave, I am sexy, I am strong
|
1223 0 0
|
...I made the mistake, thinking the point of a maze was to go in one side and out the other.
|
1223 5 5
|
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.
|
1223 0 0
|
Popular wisdom would have it that heroin addicts are some kind of cross between vampire menace and low-rent cartoon.
|
1223 2 0
|
For Derek, Remembering Odd Jaunts in Overtoun I here remembered how we smoked and swam Under the cadenced pleasure of our under-days, Congealing cross-thoughts under oaken breeze, And watched the Turnered ocean of that swarm Last…
|
1223 1 1
|
They heard Chu’s voice, he was lying ten feet away, his skull opened up.
“Find my change,” was all he was saying. “I left my change around, look for it."
|
1223 5 2
|
If I was a bum
I’d risk everything
For a drink or a smoke.
I would beg and curse and steal
If I was a bum.
If I was a bum
I would cuss out the Pope.
I would not vote for anyone
Because I would know truly
They’d be telling gross lies.
|
1223 6 3
|
Meeting the past an inevitable outcome (this inside a future fortune cookie). Shame pierces her like a sudden migraine.
|
1223 3 2
|
Lips touch briefly at first
|
1223 1 1
|
In his head the moment would have been different.
|