1089 1 1
|
Patio Joe, 55 and constantly smelling of swill, got his name because he sold and stocked patio furniture at the neighborhood Kmart. With his pockets full of dusty rags and crushed Old Golds, he'd daydream about check out girls.But I suppose you'd have to call them check out…
|
1089146
|
|
108911
|
a sixteen year old girl
Denim
|
108922
|
The space they are in is years long.
|
108862
|
Somewhere in the tenth dimension
|
108840
|
Has anyone reached inside your eyes lately? Has anyone searched for your soul as it floated near the ceiling of the past? Has anyone told you they needed you to touch them, to lie down beside them and breathe, just breathe, and live wherever it is that ma
|
108821
|
The moon has a cloud pass before it. The strop has a razor pulled up-and-down, up-and-down, up and down against it.
|
108811
|
“I come from a long line of Toad Kings,” Huckleberry said, “and we never back down from a bet.”Phyllis, a great white heron, lowered her long white neck so she could get a better look into her friend's golden eyes.“I just think you…
|
108851
|
The irony is that Smart's work of self-abnegation has surpassed that of her erotic master; George Barker is largely forgotten now, while the reputation of Smart's one work of genius seems secure.
|
1088155
|
The trio stuffed their grilling equipment in a battered van and left for Dixieland Speedway at 4:30 am.
|
108800
|
I didn't much care for the graveyard anymore now that so many people I knew where layin' in it.
|
108800
|
Subways are silver
Taxis are yellow and
Trees are green.
|
108730
|
The little butterfly struggled against the wind. As little butterflies sometimes do. Tossed and turned around by relentless, uncaring gusts. The little butterfly would make progress, but then be pushed back. Tantalizing close to where she was heading. A…
|
108733
|
“the calendar of my future was in there!”/
yes: all tomorrows belong to the dead cats,/
their decisions relinquish one day per day.
|
108700
|
I drove around the city that evening, beyond lonely. What was I to do? My friends were gone! I hit the nearest bar and ordered myself a strong drink of concentrated Oros. The barman was a tad gobsmacked, but he saw the dismay in my eyes. After filling him
|
108731
|
He fingered his remaining chips and the usual nervousness tingled at his spine.
|
108722
|
He inhaled the spears of aroma...
|
108700
|
If you don't want to die, go fetch me a pie
|
108785
|
The next/
may be the lucky one,/
undiscovered all these years.
|
108622
|
“Oh, where are you going to, O tow-haired rover?” Though my sight turns nowhere homeward, and my mouth's run numb, I can hear a leaflet sifting through the walls of clover; Though I stay, I ‘m going forth and o'er to Camelot, come- On a four…
|
108632
|
When Roy had seen the first of the movies in his dorm's weekend double feature that night (the University of Maine at Orono — as Stephen king once quipped, “that crossword-puzzle favorite”) …
|
108610
|
Watch the moon hang with methough miles and miles apart.Over sea and rock and railwaysforever in my heart.
|
108633
|
Forgive the earth that’s
got a hold on you.
Forgive the trees.
Forgive yourself,
you were
damaged goods.
Therefore,
quit looking for the
expected.
Look instead
at the unknown
as a fact.
Describe it.
Use great detail.
And
|
108610
|
Michael had become quite accustomed to his morning routine. He woke at seven, made his coffee, and stepped onto the front porch with a steaming cup and a fresh cigarette.
He sat there for ten minutes or so, watching the neighborhood prepare for their d
|
108500
|
Check the sweet lunar springs that we are still bathing in. The swelling in the genitals there. Check to make sure we are ripe, and in season. It’s our way of being willing, strong under the sweet icy waters, with that fertility that is derived from you
|
108555
|
Wait for it. It's not the end of the world, it's the end of certain things. It's not that the sky is falling, it's that the coral reefs are dead or dying. I don't know how the ravaged trees have managed to survive this long with us breathing…
|
108565
|
Donna and I get out of the car...
|
108593
|
Can anyone remember what the Great American dream was?
|
108500
|
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…
|
108500
|
Her through the phone line, a pause, a hold in her voice. Mom. The things we miss as adults, the turns of phrase, the little pauses. The in between of conversations are opportunities are avenues, five lane highways where we can be…
|
