1075 3 3
|
I check the NPR news app. The story about the shooting in Pittsburg has already been pushed off the homepage. There is an article about yellow fever in the 14th century, a potential ceasefire in Yemen, players protesting the national anthem, a plane crash
|
134832
|
[VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.]
|
97022
|
a distinct hardness that translates into solidity, and a lightness that translates into beauty, and I thought I’d find you there,
|
98022
|
into the Zone of Avoidance gazes sink/
―and why not? a black hole at the heart of it,/gravity attracts even our vision when/
we lift our gazes . . .
|
1117147
|
But you can have a lap dance.
|
96822
|
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.
|
118088
|
Pity would have been appropriate. Yet, townsfolk whispered behind his back. Shouldn't he do something about it. So lazy. A gluttonous swine. Hadn't his mother kept him too long at tit, breastfeeding ‘til four? Look. Look at him now. A fat man. Our enormou
|
123621
|
Her name was Carrie. And yes, it was love at first sight. Yes, she was a client, and you were supposed to keep your hands off the clients. Everyone in real estate knew that. She came into my office and took a seat in the reception area. I had a listin
|
134954
|
In December of 2003, Daniel Arredondo succumbed to his years long battle with colon cancer. If the name is unfamiliar, you're not alone. He did not answer to the name Daniel Arredondo. For most of his life, from seventeen years old to the end, in fact, he went by the name…
|
154055
|
there should be a word for it.
|
127388
|
It all began with me. I was first and for many years, the only.
|
1233147
|
A brief colorful season/
and then the fall as winds/
break the hold the leaves have
|
1130116
|
|
133398
|
War Stories #1The Germans didn't like that theJews had such beautiful women.War Stories#2There must have been a war between the good witches and the bad witches. It's the only thing that would account for such troubling times.Woman With Yellow HatWhy did…
|
115533
|
Two Roman busts have come down to us, both copies of supposed earlier Greek originals, from the 4th. century BC.
|
100853
|
I've always been a sucker for a pretty face. It's unreasonable sometimes. Yesterday, in the middle of nowhere was a house that might have seen better days in the dustbowl of depression era Oklahoma. Two Australian Shepherds launched from the rickety porch. It was clear…
|
156500
|
Gon found himself slowing behind everyone. His wings slowly tired. The bird took a chance and pulled up. He could feel it behind him.
|
1253117
|
--small chin, timid mouth, frail nose, weak narrow-set eyes--
|
150375
|
I am no different to her, living seven days ahead
of myself, looking forward to looking back,
as we Irish do so fondly
|
131734
|
let competitions in crime ensue
let every madness bring
let every sword be drawn
let every furious rage flow free
let anger know no shame
let all blind rage inflame . . .
|
106942
|
|
121476
|
I fancy myself a spy. Unofficial official of the H. O. A. Super secret free agent agent of the Glenwood Homeowner's Association. Even the board is unaware of the work I do in their name, without the faintest utterance of their name. Only the highest of the high, the…
|
94344
|
We were clinging to hope and innocence
Until the second jet struck the Twin Towers
That was when real evil twisted our hearts
And we were left without prayer, or power
Yes, a couple holding hands jumped from the building
But when I was the o
|
1313106
|
Rainy eyes fall fast somewhere
close to me
Riding the wind like lust
|
177977
|
maybe eventually time / will erase our time together
|
174054
|
[marbles] [blither-blather] [blarg]
|
122175
|
The old neighborhood, long paling in the shadow of greater Los Angeles, was reduced to two blocks in length and occupied only one side of Figueroa. It was the crumbling bastian of homes whose architecture remembered yet street-car bells clanging, watermelon farms and…
|
97364
|
I wanted you in the worst way
but that's not how I got you.
|
120388
|
Then he said something that really made sense, said he kept a blank check in his back pocket...
|
120397
|
the pressure from my lungs threatened to burst my eardrums.
|
