1225 0 0
|
When the phone rings that late at night, it’s not good.
|
1225 0 0
|
He found a small place on a side street, Bar Oiseaux Ésotérique. There was a sign on the door that read: Jazz Ce Soir: Giovanni Lezardino: Jazz grillé et sautés. Ben had met Lezardino at the Newport Jazz Festival last year.
|
1225 3 0
|
|
1225 1 1
|
We’ve been married for 24.1667 years now and–well–my wife was starting to remind me of a public building. The Registry of Motor Vehicles, to be precise.
|
1225 2 1
|
the heartbeat,
the pulse of
the darkened earth
|
1225 2 0
|
and lie down naked in my bed on her back, with her hands frozen at her sides like a deflowered virgin in the Gauguin painting “The Loss of Virginity,” almost breastless, and wait for me to lick her sopping until she almost came, but she could never quite
|
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
|
I see it now. This is like the blind flash of the mind going off inside, where memory begins to make up its own stories. And the women are often drawn, painted, sung about, while the men are not, so often. What is it about us that they cannot resist loo
|
1225 2 1
|
This is not an indie movie about love and happiness and Al Green songs redone by actresses pretending to be songwriters.
|
1225 4 0
|
The boy had decided he needed to sell his music equipment—the p.a. system, his amp, his compact organ. His band had broken up and wasn’t going to get back together. He was leaving town at the end of the summer, to where exactly he didn’t know yet.
|
1224 0 0
|
|
1224 1 1
|
Surely someone as clever as I can hatch a plan that will make them pay for rejecting me. Ignoring my genius has a cost and they will pay the price.
|
1224 3 2
|
- I wish I were taller. - You also wish I never die.- What´s your point?- Santa Claus must really hate you.------ What´s the most ridiculous thing someone´s ever asked you?- Please never die. - But you promised!------ I just want to go to sleep, I´m…
|
1224 6 3
|
You don't deserve this poem and I don't deserve to write it. Whatever time we have left is way better spent sitting in a sunny garden with a good interesting book and with a beautiful golden delicious apple to bite into. But…
|
1224 1 1
|
|
1224 14 12
|
We danced the pee dance after too much Seven Up and tasted odd Jello dishes.
|
1224 3 1
|
“I’ve read your blog recently,” my friend told me over waffles and cold potato salad at 10PM, “and something strange is going on in there.”
|
1224 7 4
|
i just seem to be stuck is all
|
1224 8 2
|
I'm not sure if my heart is breaking Or attacking Like an aged lovesick romantic with a faulty beat, I sense a valve needs replacing But only after the main artery has been sutured and made whole By a seasoned and skilled Midwest surgeon in a…
|
1223 8 8
|
The train station offers a pleasant atmosphere, though it exists as an in between place. People only come here to go somewhere else.
|
1223 1 1
|
My dog Alfie and I would get in my van and go out at midnight for a doughnut. Or an éclair. A French cruller, to be exact. Sometimes we would get Blondie's Pizza on Telegraph Avenue near the Berkeley campus, if it got to be too lonely and restless at nigh
|
1223 12 7
|
a few Hershey's Kisses tucked in with the note
|
1223 1 3
|
One must learn to give the Bull the things/
it needs: space, grass and grain, his mates/
and offspring, and elude the things/
its momentary fury wants- your death
|
1223 2 1
|
|
1222 3 3
|
"As soon as you're born, they make you feel small."--John LennonI cannot do anything about how beautiful you are, my sour flower, but I can tell you this much: Joni Mitchell is better than all the cowards in the world. They all chose to somehow…
|
1222 0 0
|
exiled from hell where no torture could touch you to a cloud in heaven where no…
|
1222 0 0
|
|
1222 0 0
|
I love her now, but I used hate her because she’d leave hairs on my bar of soap.
|
1222 5 0
|
The light streaming out of the background of things, in the absence of memory. That’s what I’m talking about. Prepare to let out all your light from night until dawn, if you want to be in the middle of life. I never wanted to stay at the edges. It didn’
|
1222 0 0
|
Randall had created Raoul to enjoy the freedom of being another person, but this became his second life crisis.
|