1114 4 0
|
Why is this woman smiling?
Because she’s the Real Mona Lisa,
that’s why
|
1114 11 10
|
The last thing I remember is falling below the water, lungs filling with liquid.
|
1114 3 1
|
“‘Dial Back the Snark’ is an attempt to fight the cynicism that’s corroding America’s social fabric,” Myers says, mixing his metaphors. “It’s spreading like wildfire."
|
1114 4 4
|
Wheels are spinning
On the country roads tonight
I’m driving all alone
No one else in sight
And the wind’s in my hair
And I don’t care
Yeah, the wind’s in my hair
And I don’t care
|
1114 7 6
|
If she weaves words that are true enough
|
1114 2 0
|
She's been considering her breasts more now.
|
1114 9 6
|
1.It was unfair to my time and my small kitchen rug that it took me two days to finish reading Meg Pokrass' “The Big Dipper,” pp. 10-12
|
1113 5 1
|
Some people burn slowWhile others burn fastAnd betweenAll kind of things happen:There's happiness sadnessJoy and angerSicknessThings happenAnd when you are in theWorldThe worlds molds youWith all it elixirs and tempationsThe good timesThen come the wounds and scarsAnd the…
|
1113 10 7
|
You gave me all of the power, and none of the power.
|
1113 4 3
|
a few numbers/
and a handful of their operations,
|
1113 5 3
|
It was a summer full of rage and discontent. The air had a new taste to it, reminiscent of the tang of battery acid.
|
1113 3 1
|
There was the small wooden structure near the base of the mountain. It had weathered many storms and its walls talked about the scars of this. In the hills to the west various cries came out from feral animals that seemed to go linger that autumn. But it had been a…
|
1113 2 1
|
She was reading The Thorn Birds. Always on her side, in a pink cotton housecoat. The Buddha rested on his side. And drank milk. We drank plenty of milk, but, being Catholic, didn't know anything about Buddha. I would sit there. Piles of books were around. I…
|
1113 3 1
|
Then I learned she was revealing all our sexcapades to this young priest.
Forgive me, father, I have sinned. We had sex outdoors against a tree in Wisconsin and the tree was blending with our act and becoming one with my back rubbing up against the bark
|
1113 0 0
|
As the waves rapped in query I studied some words so sad Words she likely knew Words seemed so pale ‘That is not it, at all That is not what I meant at all' Is this what she thought? She leaves needle and thread Down here for dead A fondness for…
|
1113 0 0
|
I could reach out
and grab this world
by the p...
|
1113 2 0
|
A thrill seeker before midnight - but closer to twilight ...
|
1112 6 5
|
A petition submitted to the Planning Department of Palm Beach Florida requests a zoning variance applied to Mar — a — Lago. Studies, backed by research, have defined Mar-a- Lago, an ideal location for shelter and protection for immigrants, fleeing from…
|
1112 0 0
|
Thus was Rent-a- Rat, Inc born. At first it was Rent-a-Rugrat, but we changed it so the Army wouldn’t be onto us. Our first headquarters was out of a damned tent on Red Square, but we would get the hell out of there as soon as we could muster the necessar
|
1112 4 4
|
It’s always daylight there
My brother comes running down the sidewalk
holding out his arms and calling my name
He’s wearing suspenders. He’s gotten thinner
in heaven
He embraces me warmly
wanting us to be friends
I give up trying to resist
|
1112 0 0
|
Topsy was a flip flopper ...
Topsy was a crazy complainer.
|
1112 0 0
|
Oh Captain, Good Captain I went where you asked of me But now I'm back home And things are so clear to me The liquors been drained So my eyes have dried finally I'm seeking her out So her voice can stop haunting me When I see his face I'll…
|
1112 1 1
|
“I don't want to talk about this right now.” “Oh you don't want to…
|
1112 3 2
|
Soon you too will lie down with the sleep of rain, telling them a thing or two, grown old by having lived through your youth, that is all. Lying from the side of your mouth so often that you take up lying on your side, to try getting an eyeful of the of
|
1112 0 0
|
you are in Faulkner’s dream -a lost pilgrim in cheap shoes
|
1111 8 5
|
We broke our hearts rather than sit in your reversible seats with the plain brown paper packages tied on our laps, we did so together. You don't want to hear about that. It gets too close to the actual murder of love. I…
|
1111 5 4
|
seriously: let defendants choose their coin, / execute their own calls, make their own coin flips― / attentive referee, no need for a court.
|
1111 9 4
|
I'm hoping, I'm reaching,
I'm scratching the sky...
|
1111 7 6
|
The leaves/
that clung through February/
fall, dung brown,
|
1111 2 2
|
Cleopatra fills her cart with food and cosmetics until it is overflowing. She proceeds out of the store. The clerks stop running products over their scanners and gaze in incredulity, and confusion.
|