1079 8 5
|
The next/
may be the lucky one,/
undiscovered all these years.
|
107911
|
We have been down here before
|
107921
|
She bought herself her own apartment
That was when she told me
I have a hard time getting out
Unless it’s really important like work
I told myself wake up early
Get some coffee, but I oversleep
I had a massage therapist come to my house
|
1079178
|
I'd rather slit my wrists with a Triscuit...
|
107853
|
There’s a sudden
Burst of color
Like the dispersal of a ghost
In a light wind
And now candy wrappers are
Scattered all over the heavens
It looks like God got lit up
By the sky
As we flew too c
|
107886
|
The damp suspended/
in the air/
in a faint fog/
discourages coagulation.
|
107843
|
The bum had abandoned
More than half of his rich
Chocolate cake
In the bottom of the shopping cart
The wording on the top of the cake read
"Happy Birthday Doug"
But it also read
"From Doug"
Either he was too full
To eat his own words
|
107810
|
My stepmother called me an amoral virgin during our latest "disagreement."
|
107800
|
|
107700
|
At the house one night we were all sitting around at one of those infernal communal meetings that go on into the night full of pot smoke and red wine, when the door was nudged open and a stray dog wandered into the living room. It was a strange coyote-l
|
107741
|
And there was Kathi R in the summer of 1969. She was from Wheaton. We had tons of unprotected sex that summer. She was short, almost no breasts, but man, she could reach down behind me somehow and grab my balls at precisely the right moment, and bam, ba
|
107700
|
1I looked through the window of the drive-thru into the customers vehicle. There, encased in a ton of metal and plastic, sat a balding, rotund man in his mid-forties with flesh that resembled cookie dough sprinkled with beads of sweat. Not only did he defy physics by…
|
107720
|
when the jewels weren't on his head; they were in his eyes.
|
107722
|
He arched an eyebrow. He was "thinking" — a tricky thing to do, when you never read, even the newspaper.
|
107710
|
At work I listen to musicrecorded from live performances.People cheer in the music and I can hear their smilesthey are excited. I smile with themand I imagine they are happyfor me.I see them beyond my grey office walls I imagine they are my friends and…
|
107700
|
I didn't much care for the graveyard anymore now that so many people I knew where layin' in it.
|
107711
|
“You want me to come out there and repossess that froofy coffee you’re drinking?” he snaps, sending Corrallo up the steps and onto the street to lick his wounds.
|
107742
|
Wound up taking smiling lessons
Six days in a row
But they didn’t take
All the people in my class
They were so fake
|
107600
|
The only magazine Auden subscribed to was Scientific American, a publication I had previously scorned as the trade journal of pre-med students and Nobel Prize winners.
|
107633
|
Bite an apple and watch them come,
God only knows wherefrom.
|
107622
|
We met at a bar
We didn’t get far
We went to her car
Then back to the bar
I played guitar
She was a rock star
We met at a bar
We didn’t get far
|
107600
|
If you don't want to die, go fetch me a pie
|
107600
|
How long to make something pretty?
|
107622
|
A small flame of gossip began at one end of the table and began to spread like a wildfire at the first mention of Diane Morgan’s name. “That little red-faced slut stole my boyfriend from me,” I overheard Maryann Blakely saying. “I could have been Prom Que
|
107653
|
I've always been a sucker for a pretty face. It's unreasonable sometimes. Yesterday, in the middle of nowhere was a house that might have seen better days in the dustbowl of depression era Oklahoma. Two Australian Shepherds launched from the rickety porch. It was clear…
|
107562
|
Somewhere in the tenth dimension
|
107500
|
“Hello. How are you?” “Me? I'm fine actually. Just sitting here in this little coffee shop. Sipping my coffee. I like it black, did you know that?” “Like your men?” ‘Excuse me?” “It's a joke… from…
|
107511
|
My girl hit me with an ice cream freezer.
She did it ‘cause she said she didn't want me to tease her.
|
107500
|
It's late it's early love youfuck me the difference isin the garage boxes sitbehind me in the trunklike passengers beside melike pedestrians in frontof me I choose our directionwhat stays what comes whatis what and how did I end upin the garage in the first placein the…
|
107532
|
For the kid in me who fell
head over heels
all the way down
the stars,
I wonder where you are
now.
Slack is harder to
cut than
you might think,
I have learned.
And assigning the middle finger its true purpose
keeps me pretty bus
|
