2309 17 7
|
Dear Erin,And people call ME a pussy. Fuck you,The Cunt
|
2309158
|
When you return home, one year to the day that you left us, you will wonder if you can do it all over again.
|
23092217
|
I stare, out a dirty window, / into the sanitary blackness.
|
230931
|
There are gestures, unmarred by the words put to them after all has failed. When Y. stopped you from talking to apply lip balm to your dry lips. Or she sidled up to you to read what you had written for her. When you lay on the grass together she put her head on…
|
2308179
|
I have been mother
to a hundred soldiers,
holding their hands
barely knowing
their names
|
230841
|
Larry's next book, A Fly in My Ointment, is due out this summer
|
230655
|
I used to charm you,
hold you in my hand.
|
23051110
|
he scans the headlines of the tabloids as he waits to pay. “Dog Accidentally Shoots Man With His Own Gun, Elvis's Hidden Extraterrestrial Daughter, Swedish Man Bursts Into Flames on Train Platform.”
|
23052515
|
We made our escape on grimy streets under skies filled with crows, flapping like litter in the wind.
|
230520
|
A cruel panther gets its prey.
|
23041010
|
... while I lie, cool as a nectar cream snowball,
in my Maggie The Cat slip, painting my toenails
a color called Bad Influence
|
2303125
|
“How much is stuff worth? Stuff man! Bling! Cargo! STUFF! What's it worth to you? It ain't worth a shit, man! Clean clothes! Comfortable shoes! A ride! Those things are important! But they’re only stuff.
|
23032321
|
The debits and credits of life have been recalculated. You are not due tax; you are owed a trapeze. It turns out you have a natural gift for hanging upside down, knees to the clouds.
|
230396
|
Sorry Glenn Gould, I said, but our princess is in another castle. After that, Glenn and I went to an all night diner and ate scrambled eggs.
|
23035727
|
She sits at home, on the floor of the kitchen, bathing her stuffed animals in molasses to match the ones on the news.
|
230362
|
He sits on a folded-over cardboard box, slightly off-balance and without any visible sign of support other than the granite wall of the bank behind him and the few coins in the paper cup he shakes at each passerby.
|
230146
|
"The problem is, sometimes my pigeon wants to fly somewhere new- to the beach or south for winter. Other times, my pigeon wants to steal someone else’s lunch or picnic with a stranger’s leftovers. Often, my pigeon wants a good show and some freedom, to be
|
2301124
|
It's a lie, it doesnt mean anything this, only that my lips are ripe and soft.
|
230088
|
Public voice when he's tense.
|
230075
|
This was a dream in which I didn’t know fear.
|
22991315
|
Love is always going to be all even when all else is
floating to the burning ground.
|
229877
|
on the far shore, in the vineyards
timed charges explode like the sun catching on fire
it scares crows away from the grapes
|
2298102
|
The couple drove away at the end of the late show. They crashed sooner or later, often with fatalities to the woman cuddled up against her illicit lover.
|
229752
|
The Six-Second Rule
They come to the new world, but bring the old world with them – the six-second rule.
When their bagel drops face down on the café floor, apparently it’s the old world six-second rule that applies, instead of our own
|
22961211
|
I was having festive sex flashbacks and wasn't thinking sharply.
|
22961813
|
Donnie remembers just in time. So we run practically every stop sign and red light in town, and get there just before they close.
|
2294126
|
It’s about 4:30 when the phone rings. I look at the display and see it’s home.
“Hey,” I say picking up.
“I hate you,” says Jules.
“I hate, you, too,” I say. My co-workers don’t even blink. They’ve heard this before.
|
229397
|
I never looked at her face.
|
22932113
|
This is my house. You park in the back.
*
This is a picture of flowers and hands.
|
229154
|
On the Rocks What matters these, to all, below the crest… If privilege of mind-blankness is the bay's? Remembrance breeds no fathoms of its rest- As plumb the circuit lulled, at each rephrase Of capture,…
|
