1447 6 5
|
|
1139 2 2
|
They’ve got the tourists
On the top deck of the bus
Wrapped up in large yellow
Plastic garbage bags
Riding through the City in the rain
The yellow bags flapping in the wind
Yelling in the numerous languages
At the top of the world
The to
|
1797 16 12
|
So I went to see the wrinkled
and rumpled poet, who insisted
on reading from memory, stumbling
through his sheaf of poems.
|
1536 10 5
|
salmon sits gentler on my palate
|
1747 2 2
|
Next to you, the mother tightens her grip on her stroller. The young teenager tears her gaze from her mobile phone for an instant.
|
1443 9 4
|
When we are given eternity, as a night is eternal
|
1332 8 4
|
In the moment
I crinkle the aluminum foil,
The sandwich now a deeper
Part of me
|
1283 1 1
|
It's been almost two years since I bought it.
|
1274 7 5
|
|
1705 12 6
|
All creatures know death at their very core, a tacit default--
|
1859 5 6
|
She told me one way to deal with it would be to put everything in a box and burn it.
|
1318 2 3
|
the mountains did change/became looming purplish waves/their spray washes us/we rinse slow 'neath lifted waves/that must be at least this tall.
|
1705 5 4
|
You left your quiet life for a home in the city.
|
1424 9 7
|
Sex is a fetish war --
a battle of trinkets of desire
|
1423 9 4
|
He wasn't sure if I was joking.
|
1476 9 8
|
drunkards indulge, addicts abuse
|
1659 20 10
|
Practice has perfected disengagement.
|
1380 5 4
|
You can tell your doctor the truth
Even if no one else will stop and listen
He or she may have a balm for it
To help make it go away
Or at least go into remission
Remission is the staging area for Lies
Corporate and otherwise
We don’t have
|
1561 4 4
|
I want to ask him why not now, right here on the living room floor when Rosie is out for the day. Instead, I suggest Sunday afternoon. I can make grilled cheese sandwiches and we'll eat them on the veranda. I'll take off my tennis skirt and unbutton my...
|
1625 9 9
|
People usually take fonts for granted.
|
1530 0 0
|
"Oh — what is this 'work' thing the philosophers speak of" sort of thing.
|
1235 13 10
|
I'll see her this fall, a redhead in camo
|
1689 8 8
|
Today the color of the skyremakes my heart into somethingless willing to break, or to judge,and I am thankful for it. Acolor not unlike walking chestdeep in the ocean and seekingbeautiful clouds and thinking Iwill be back. Dreaming with the sky.Please stop lying to me. A…
|
1535 5 6
|
IN nature, it's hard to find a straight line. Stand on a beach. Look out to sea. There out far you might think you see a line where the sky comes down to join. Where two fields of blue meet. But where you're not quite sure for the line is a blur there. You…
|
1378 9 4
|
soft voices singing somewhere in the black back of
rising tensions crashing with the waves...
|
2038 5 5
|
Your voice is yearning,
Like a sad song on the radio,
A yarn spun to make hearts break.
|
1409 12 8
|
in White Heat
there’s a character
who reads lips
using a mirror to see
the mouths of prisoners
in other cells
that’s how I feel
when I talk
with you
|
1598 11 7
|
Lucky for mama, he doesn't like for his women to work.
|
1610 15 6
|
As the other mammals go extinct,/
we can’t presume we are immune//
because of big brains and a history/
of belief in the control of nature.
|
1190 6 5
|
You better read the papers
If you don’t understand
Cause as of last night
I’m a one-man band
You’d better walk through water
With your boots on fire
Cause Baby I don’t think
I can take this any higher
You’d better find out what I dr
|