2731 18 7
|
They take her cookies
they take her Coke
they take her Kleenex
the whole box
not the used ones
They take, they steal
everything
They’d take the brain
out of an ox
if they could
Diamonds they steal
bars of soap
as long as they
|
1724169
|
On a night in 1952 he walked her home in the freezing rain, past the nativity in front of St. Mark's, sharing his flask of schnapps. Look, my fingers are prunes, she said. He kissed her hands and said, Let's name our firstborn Adlai. She laughed and said, No. Dwight.…
|
125472
|
Fingers of angry red welts crossed his face and neck.
|
1439135
|
She slipped into a silky sheath dress, and stepped into black sequined heels just as the doorbell rang. Her date had arrived to take her to his much touted Art opening in town. Reaching under the bathroom sink for a final mist of hair spray she realized too late…
|
94210
|
Cathy told the boy to sit in the seat behind her, and gave him her scarf for his face. He nodded and plucked the scarf gingerly from her hands, suspending it between the clean thumb and ring finger on his left hand.
|
15931810
|
She was a forward-motion girl. She never bothered to learn to walk as a baby. Instead, she stood up and ran.
|
20582914
|
|
165483
|
"My boy Jake fell in with a bad crowd when he went to college," Coffelt says, shaking his head. "A bunch of accounting majors."
|
116864
|
French citizens. The friends were all citizens of a half-assed France. The friends were all half-assed citizens of a French stance. Carol was more American, more eggnog, more cream-of-wheat. She represented dull victory.
|
153263
|
We buried her upright, in the stance of warriors.
|
121300
|
I smoked my cigarro under his watchful eye. We were never able to make too much conversation even when I was teaching him at Educenter. Now that David had opened his own school, Evert had come to learn with him because it was much more affordable, but he
|
78660
|
That was some root beer float. It cost us a grand total of $275.
She pulls up in front of Fenton’s Ice Cream Parlor and leaves the motor running while I jump out and run into the parlor.
It was early evening. We HAD to have a root beer float. You
|
77953
|
|
145820
|
Duh. It’s all the same sky. Instead I nod, and don’t say anything.
|
187494
|
I think that I write toward death and to stave off death and to remember the dead and to address what is dead in me.
|
89200
|
"You think life is supposed to be easy? Whoever told you that? My life is anything but easy; still you don't hear me whining all over the place. And, trust me, I could teach you a thing or two about suffering.
|
96720
|
I don’t understand what happened. I keep pushing your buttons but you won’t do anything. You just lie there, cold and dead, staring back at me without any light and I feel like I’m going to cry.
|
179394
|
I was a gangly 11 years old, a year before the Watergate hearings pre-empted the afternoon cartoons on television, when I discovered an uncle's girlie magazine during routine reconnaissance of my grandmother's hall closet.
|
144873
|
Roanne banged the chiva, turned tricks, and ran out of road.
|
151441
|
Wives, without exception, have birthdays,
which if forgotten, are much-less-than-mirth days.
|
138951
|
Funny, you can drink wine and eat stale crackers, but you cannot suck a simple lollipop? Where does it say that in the bible? Nowhere, that’s where.
|
114821
|
We all thought, Birds! We all thought, Nests inside the chimney!
|
124700
|
A burst of mud spilled out over Jonas and scooped his body up like a raging river. It spun his body over in a rebound rather than pushing him through the door.
|
104672
|
They left the breath of their souls
upon the lips of others
and jumped in with all abandon
They felt the winds on their skin
as the heart flew by them
on its way into the lost nature of time
This time they flee the country of the soul
|
1463146
|
The handsome man at the opposite table swivels his head at the tall cool slim blonde entering the breakfast cafe. The ordinary woman sitting with him adjusts her chair accordingly. She pretends to ignore her husband's distraction, smoothes her hair, licks her…
|
124711
|
He thought the scarab was bad luck. I knew too little about omens to argue.
|
142574
|
Before he knew what happened, Shelia ran out of his life forever with their baby in her belly.
|
119632
|
...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
|
59640
|
When bees die they die
with their wings straight out
They die of natural causes
and their tiny bodies are bent
as though landing on
a flower
Their wings seem
too big for them
and they lie scattered
about the floor, tilted
in dead p
|
130693
|
We hit the road, headed west.
|
