966 5 4
|
At least the cephalopods on their planet manage to comport themselves with some dignity, as well as demonstrating some actual intellectual acumen.
|
966 2 2
|
Then Vladimir asked Ellen if she wanted to try out the dungeon. And she looked at me, and smiled. “Well, yes.”
“What?” I said. “No, Ellen, no! Do not let him lock you in here, whatever you do.”
“Do not worry. Do not worry. I am Janovsky, no? I hav
|
966 2 2
|
Just after Al snapped the shutter the fucking monkey tried to tear his face off.
|
965 4 2
|
Did we ever walk together long?We walked apart much longer. Are we the same, unsaid, Or more different than you imagined? Are you amazed I still stand, Here and in this room, So brazen to show my lined, scarred face, So bold to live and speak aloud? Can you…
|
965 6 5
|
tentacles of stringy rains opens up the stage antics for this common February day to the fidgety audience at hand but it appears that they just won't be able to grab on, not this time. The familiar grumpy wind with…
|
965 2 1
|
On October 14, 2009 Oriana Morosini appeared as the guest author on America’s most popular live television book show: The Author Answers
|
965 8 8
|
The garden grew tomatoes.
|
964 2 1
|
“Furman lost all his money at a clip joint. I'm going to the office to complain.”
|
963 1 0
|
What they used to do is hide in the cupboard, and would suddenly acquire the philosophy of “whatever happens happens,” so that they would finally find themselves grabbing each other's body parts in wanton excess until they both explode under the weight of their…
|
963 1 1
|
He summoned a demon from Hell, following instructions from a journal his grandfather wrote on the subject before being the victim of a sort of faust-like debacle himself. A little imp popped in from a cloud of smoke following his ritual. It turned around,
|
962 8 5
|
They say his irrational outbursts and insane rantsare the results of untreated syphilis. Well, thatmakes perfect sense to me. I've always thoughtof him as a tessellated spirochete, a narcissistic chancre,festering pustule of a blistered imposthume. And whywouldn't a…
|
962 11 8
|
aquatic, free-swimming or earth-bound
|
962 7 4
|
...Or perhaps it has; It depends which way you look at it. Perhaps the reader may cite laziness As my reason for not titling this Any other than I would have done As now, with such a title As it has, since for some reason I never…
|
962 3 1
|
Who will plume the chicken?
Who tend
the little flower
of the soft person?
Who steal the pea out
from under the bank
while you’re holding it up?
|
962 1 1
|
Blobbing the safety tarmac with human glue
|
961 3 3
|
“What the hell was that?
Is that your take on
The Deer Hunter?”
|
961 4 3
|
So how do I know all this about Sammy, you ask? I’m getting to that...
|
961 0 0
|
or Hamlet,Great Denmark"No good can come out of this house of Berkeley, not ever, not to strut the great book of the world, or for any other discreet purpose." - the Upanishads "What is guile? Who is this Hamlet? Where smarts wounded Denmark? I need…
|
961 2 0
|
Me and the wife are tucked away in our little house.
|
961 3 2
|
In the cafeteria we have the cheese fries. Sara's favorite. She eats with two fingers, pinching like a crane. Cheese drips and she licks the fingers. She licks the plate. She goes for it. Big Lulu, the cook, calls from the back. “That's what I like to…
|
960 6 5
|
po-mo parchments piled high deep: / credentials earnest transcripts earned /
coursework scholarships helpt buy.
|
960 3 0
|
so i slather cortizone on the bite marks of my experiences
|
960 6 3
|
I was bleeding from the soul
It took its toll
I fell all the way down in a hole
I saw some burning coal
I didn’t know where the hell I was
Or what went wrong
As I sang some unholy song
Where I did not belong
There was a frozen carcas
|
960 5 3
|
day dreams, at last!
Timetables colliding, time tables
alarm clocks
Sunday stew
|
960 0 0
|
Off of the train, endlessly rocking,
He threw his mother a kiss.
|
959 0 0
|
This wasn’t my first time, ever, but it was ours. This wasn’t the life of a pigeon after sex, you know, sucking some soda pop off the pavement. This was real. This was me up there on your ceiling! And I’m not so fond of lightning either.
If you thou
|
959 1 0
|
Everything moved.
I ran outside.
|
959 0 0
|
The poems and the Lies of Zog the Obscure It was said of old, shut the doors, close the windows; get into the spaceship and eschew mankind and every earth and like Neitszche put it "wipe away the horizon with a sponge".Negative 272°C (or Not Yet Absolute Order For These…
|
959 3 0
|
Time is the / gravy of the bloody roast beef of / emptiness.
|
958 2 2
|
The scalpel isprescient -- it knows blood before it cuts.Every surgeon is a seer.We start here, just below the neck. The slide of its sharpened silvertouches softly,enters the skin with care; halfthe cut is question,and half an…
|