2044 6 7
|
“Too perfect.” my therapist intervenes in assurance, “You did enough, really. More than anyone else would.” I know the subtext is that I possibly did more than I should. My appointment is coincidentally later that day, after his goodbye letter arrives in
|
204410
|
Azure became silent. She never thought of her death before, nor thought about actually fighting creatures and saving people’s lives.
|
204322
|
Why is the ghost of John Lennon haunting a house in rural Oregon?
|
2043117
|
He was her summer fling, the first cock to crow when the sun rose over her tequila smile.
|
20432310
|
An Ayurvedic astrologer tells her that she is a child of India. Is a girl born in Indiana a mistake of just two letters on a Scrabble board?
|
204396
|
All of those lovelies, pitched on the ground, ignored and ready to rot.
|
204370
|
Who is the moron that invented the Snuggie?
|
20423013
|
I had felt suddenly lighter and next thing I knew I was watching Leonard Tucker and Sister William from somewhere near the ceiling. I saw myself, too, at my desk, holding my songbook out in front of me like everyone else.
|
204295
|
I found my black dot nucleus. School got me in the 10th year with the numbers spilling outta my head, but now I got the cell on my mind. Everybody's floating around this joint all pink and green college clean, yellow face Japanese, or the jet-headed Greeks with their…
|
204201
|
meanings figure into traffic streams reds fade, trickle down the long ‘V' another passing human ear; tall, tall buildings paper poised on horizon. situations gape in and out of seconds corners turn to disappearance, witness follows fingers…
|
204252
|
Having a single blurb on your book cover is like having a single friend in grade school. So I lied.
|
204297
|
"... I knew Willie had gone— out the back door or out the side window. I knew he probably slipped over the fence behind my house into Lou C.’s backyard..."
|
20421315
|
We wonder if this is how we tangled in our mother's womb: hands to feet to heart.
|
204296
|
The phone owner pre-writes his or her dying words! The app stores them and releases them at the moment of his death!
|
204154
|
Often we sit in silence and age. We are observers of dust, fashioning ourselves into antiques.
|
204151
|
unbury yourself from the silt and give me some seal love.
|
20412116
|
Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back.
|
204197
|
500 miles
all the way from Omaha
nine hours
on the back of a flatbed truck
|
2041109
|
Sometimes, they beat their masters home...
|
204173
|
Like all professors, I'm required to maintain office hours to help my students so I'm at my desk every fourth Tuesday of months without an "r" in them from 10:30 to 11:00 p.m.
|
204132
|
This is what my summer has come to: me, out of a job, aimlessly driving around the city looking for places to write, places to read, places to occupy my time.
|
20411716
|
Ed wants to watch the last half of the football game. His wife wants him to mow the lawn.
|
204000
|
Casting nets like Jesus to a metaphor sea
Admittedly as weak as me
But I need the hike,
Like we still like Ike
To tell us about the Military Industrial Complex
Though he never told us what came next
|
2040126
|
After the show they talked at the famous comedian, reaching the way they do, with their arms. Their arms are curved a good way, a better way than the older white planes of my own.
|
204063
|
“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.
|
204000
|
I'm in awe of her frankness, how she takes my breath away, how I wish to rush off with her to a splendid hideaway where only the two of us touch the grape-stained mountains and the cerulean sea, wild blades of grass quivering with the breeze. Sometimes th
|
203910
|
It's dawn. It's quiet on the pond in the Public Garden. The light is calm, the pollution is mild, and everything is still,except for the occasional cruising taxi. It's the beginning of spring-- tulips out, leaves…
|
203963
|
Cap'n Pepper tries and tries but Old Salty is never happy.
|
203976
|
Butch the Labradoodle sets some necessary boundaries.
|
2039157
|
the boredom inherent in living in the suburbs
|
