1054 5 2
|
Sometimes he made a corny joke and smiled. The gold in his tooth glowed like
sunshine. He was the most important man in my life.
|
105411
|
They met at a bar
They didn’t get far
They went to her car
Then back to the bar
He played guitar
She was a rock star
They met at a bar
They didn’t get far
Well, I heard you liked the back seat too, Honey
I heard that you liked to h
|
105430
|
Talk about the Nutcracker–my nuts are cracking from the cold cause it’s freezin’ out here! But a guy’s gotta make a buck, and scalpin’ ballet tickets in sub-zero weather pays the bills.
|
105411
|
Barry Gibb, the last remaining brother of the trio to make up the once popular disco band, the Bee Gees, comes out for his encore, to sing a cappella, “Stayin' Alive.”
|
105341
|
As the torrent hit her, she felt her body slipping, sinking, and suddenly she didn’t know where the floor was in relation to her feet.
|
105322
|
My first and so far only visit to my homeland of Prague was first described to me by a tourist guidebook, which laid out many of the fundamentals one must follow while travelling there. It was pointed out, for instance, that we would be “unlikely to enc
|
1053102
|
Boy, it is weird out there, talking to real people!
|
105323
|
Written across an old geezer’s sweatshirt
At the Farmer’s Market in L.A.
|
105333
|
If you’re trying to carve wise sayings
for eternity to read
in a newly poured sidewalk
you don’t want to be
struggling for meaning
while the cement is wet.
|
105300
|
So, I see this is story one-upmanship now. You think you’ve got stories! Here’s one for the books. Here goes!
In 1968 I had a day job as a payroll clerk at the Kroger Company, but, to maintain my glamorous lifestyle and my impressive efficiency ap
|
105322
|
A black and white Malamute chasing down a deer
to the edge of the water, and putting her mouth
on it. The hurt deer fallen into the water to escape.
Red blood floating out into the water like cloth.
The boy racing down the slope into the reeds t
|
105352
|
She wondered why people would spend hard-earned money on a television when they could look up at the sky for free and trace the images that had inspired poets.
|
105300
|
I feel like I can never possibly amount to all of the impossible feats I want to. Therefore, I must try and discover all that I can in the time that I have. Time is allotted from our beginnings. Theories about where we begin are disastrously…
|
105364
|
I wanted you in the worst way
but that's not how I got you.
|
105310
|
Split streams displace a spliced and shattered walkman with no connection of its dead batteries, projected into Styrofoam and plastic mirrors before hitting the brook water. Michael finds way, out of breath, eclipsed by an elm, his eyes visible with pupil
|
105275
|
All the lights of Rekyjavik...
|
105222
|
Here is a blank space soft and white like paper extended indefinitely.
|
1052104
|
Licking bowl and spoon taste and foretaste follow.
|
105275
|
It is equally likely that just as the rate of melt continues, the rate of melt will also continue to accelerate.
|
105200
|
Flowers I didn’t like God or else nature must have had some brief happiness over. But it’s just forgetfulness for an old goddess like me, goddess of the moon, of hunting, of chastity once, since now I have changed. My opened flowery bosom went on to bec
|
105262
|
That new rain smell in your backyard, specifically I remember that, with you. And lying in the grass in a park with you on the 4th of July, maybe in Lombard, watching the blue/grey smoke of the fireworks drifting overhead after they went off, and the sm
|
105222
|
The promise felt heavy in my chest, made it difficult to breath. It was scary to set out to change something that felt so engrained into my own wiring, in my ability to survive & cope in the world.
|
105123
|
Robot telephones me today...
|
105111
|
He is the kind of boy that is so handsome / you already expect there is something wrong with him
|
105153
|
I needed a job. They needed a writer without humanistic moral qualms to create slogans for the Human Annihilation Project
|
105131
|
On-air personalities inflate a balloon Trump head to the point of bursting.
|
105031
|
I thought I saw you once
When you were still quite young
Surveying great beauty
Like a rain shower in the sun
And I can still hear them nearby
Those sharp voices of our youth
Shouting with pleasure in the fields
While looking at the sky
|
105000
|
“I thought bankruptcy was for people who didn’t have any money.” Skipper said.
“Not exactly. It takes a lot of money to go broke,” I said, hoping to teach him an important lesson about thrift.
|
105011
|
|
105052
|
like a reflection vanishes
|
