870 3 1
|
The details left undone let you know that tradesmen, visitors and strangers were not welcome.
|
87000
|
Today is the audition for “The Bright Stream,” and I believe I am in tip-top shape to win the prize role–potato carrier! To train, I have been hauling rocks up the stairs to my apartment.
|
86900
|
“You know,” I said finally, “when I’m out in the waiting room, I get high blood pressure when you call my name.”
|
869104
|
Jeff was unlucky.His first wife had been killed by his stalker a few years ago. When he first explained it to me, I had felt incredulous. Then I felt somewhat guilty for wondering who on earth would have been inspired to stalk him. The dead wife thing made me feel even…
|
86922
|
You walked into the dream world
That divides us from each other
And removed your clothes
And there was no specific language
For orgasm there
It was all multilingual
They were white and fluffy like new clouds
Like notes written on the bars
|
86900
|
She was nice. From the first sight, I already knew that. Someone will easily recognize her eyes. Her eyes are playful. I like game. “If you'd been told that you would die tomorrow, how'd you do?” She asked. I had no…
|
86994
|
The dead tongues chuckle/
in Etruscan
|
86900
|
His father has been talking of finding a man for her, but she would have none of it. The last time he brought a traveler home, under guise of allowing him to rest for the night and have some bread, the boy crept to her room at night and attempted deprive
|
86811
|
Sometimes you get the upgrade you deserve.
|
86700
|
Intimacy is safer in the dark.
|
86721
|
carrion is no longer hauled away:/if the road killed it, it must be the road’s . . .
|
86720
|
Cataclysm was a bustling city
right across the river from Orgasm.
|
866102
|
For every person who dies alone that way, another twenty try.
|
86643
|
The misspent effort reposed spontaneously, a prank worth ending with the dog letter: “GrrrrrrrR!”
|
866168
|
a boy with a gun, a skateboard, and spray-paint
|
86663
|
The fire was so fierce,so fair like an opal;the most primal burn."Death haunts these trees,"the woman said, as she held the potof beetroot soup above the fire.They spoke from the basement; living in the dark space,nerves too locked up to to look out the windowand…
|
86500
|
having the time of their lives,
|
86420
|
Why, I ask myself, is a bathroom not a room?
|
86400
|
I wrote a million lines of poetry last night.
/ Metaphor after metaphor of your beauty
|
86410
|
the bay was littered with corpses
|
86300
|
Well, guys like me, no family and no place to go, need someone to chew the fat with, without complications, especially after I get the news like I got from the doctor today,
|
86300
|
I am bound behind the bars of my own domesticity, /
by this banana, and pea soup, and wilted cabbage
|
86310
|
I remember him saying something like: “Are you aware of how completely horrible you are as a human being?”
|
86254
|
Apple is apple plum plum that is a kiss without a tongue
|
86295
|
The winter sun was going down and she watched it out the window.Light like shards of glass,time had melted.It took hold.She was held down by brown leather straps and she couldremember the smell of incense and little hands and little eyesof an infant cold on the bed.She…
|
86231
|
Just let there be that self-moving thing, a sweet girl mentioned by innocence in an off moment because of her skin, because of the way rain beads up on it.
|
86121
|
I look back at Bobby, his wide blue eyes staring at me. A dark shadow on his round baby face also tells me that he isn't entirely convinced if the thing is dead in the first place. Because even the folks buried in the town's only cemetery have a way of co
|
86100
|
And there was one girl from Ireland, with her thick Irish brogue, who came into my bedroom early on the morning before my final exam for my Masters degree in the writing program at Irvine. She knew I was so nervous about taking the exam that I hadn’t sl
|
86030
|
I just can't figure out why nothing terrible happened to me that night. Young, blonde, drunk American girl sitting on a dirty curb in the red light district of Nuevo Laredo, and everyone left me alone ... amazing.
|
86063
|
McMurdo Sound. Amundsen. Penguins huddled in a mass...
|
