2350 10 7
|
Every dive bar has a Max. Max is an elderly man. He wears a dented ball cap. He sits at the end of the bar, right along where it curves and then slams into the wall. You may find it cliché, but when Max enters the room, the patrons actually announce, “
|
23491211
|
I was having festive sex flashbacks and wasn't thinking sharply.
|
2349124
|
It's a lie, it doesnt mean anything this, only that my lips are ripe and soft.
|
234866
|
Others climbed
trees for a
hopeful sighting.
|
234875
|
This was a dream in which I didn’t know fear.
|
23482113
|
This is my house. You park in the back.
*
This is a picture of flowers and hands.
|
234783
|
Figures are a strip tease.
|
2347149
|
You can't always get what you want, and fortunately, that's sometimes a good thing.
|
23431912
|
Say the word and I shall become
a photograph;
|
234356
|
The man she loved did not love her. At first she prayed to Athena for strength and steadiness. She began to knock on wood, spit on her…
|
234277
|
on the far shore, in the vineyards
timed charges explode like the sun catching on fire
it scares crows away from the grapes
|
23421713
|
We were to eat just meat and to become discombobulated over vegetables and bread and not to indulge in sex with strange men—men were all strange once you got used to their distance—were Lincoln logs, poles, boulders and scrub trees.
|
23424121
|
My eyes became purple, and boys called them "picture windows". Well, not boys, exactly, but one girl did. Junie.
|
23421813
|
Donnie remembers just in time. So we run practically every stop sign and red light in town, and get there just before they close.
|
234252
|
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
|
234084
|
Tell me your hero and I'll tell you what's cooking with you...
|
23365224
|
|
23363918
|
Lined up like ghosts on the front lawn, the second-hand porcelain fixtures had embarrassed her.
|
23351717
|
Andreas Cappelanus taught that the word / “love” comes from the word meaning / “to fish.”
|
23353019
|
He’s hooked on the pinball / excitements of adolescence
|
2334126
|
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.
|
233342
|
The handler found Topsy as docile as a woman being fitted for a shoe. Each time he tapped his cane against her ankle, she lifted her foot and held the pose, allowing him to dip his sponge into a bucket and pull it wet across the thick ridges of her skin. It was…
|
2332125
|
Diedre and Pearl look on from their perch at a nearby table as Eleanor dribbles water from a plastic measuring cup into the bowl of crushed chalk and, using a clean fork, mashes it into a thick paste. A few more dribbles bring it to the correct consis
|
233178
|
We watched kids tweeze snapping turtles out of the park grass. They dropped them into a styrophoam cup and called it the snap turtle home. When they grow up they will bite your arms off, their father said laughing.
|
232977
|
we all want to go down / because nothing north can be good.
|
232972
|
I pass the Grief Benches on my way to work. No one is on them today. Last night I saw a couple there, him wet eyed and her with her head down. She scrunched her eyes tight as I passed and I remember thinking she was a fraud. It's alright if you don't want
|
23282016
|
We borrow a flag from a neighbor. It’s sitting on top of the TV in the den. We haven’t figured out where to display it yet.
|
232843
|
The rapist was caught on December 23rd, the day before Christmas
Eve. Everyone in town was surprised to learn he had a wife and two children; a son and a daughter, the same age, and a yellow Labrador retriever.
|
232797
|
I never looked at her face.
|
23262118
|
One day a woman, one of several translators at Ellis Island, asks him why he has changed a passenger’s name from Checzowicz to something else.
“The name was too long,” he says. “Ten letters.”
She replies, “But you didn’t change O’Shaughnessy, and it has
|
