on my 10 000th morning
i will be 27.4 years old
i will have my feelings hurt by the weather
i’ll figure out where all the dust in my bed comes from
i’ll have a nice enough love
who I’ll call my hideous monkey
and she will have a hangover
it will still be winter
i’ll share a quick drink with my cat [...]
come along fine children
get hurt and dirty
cough omelettes
chase after shoes
be dogs at the wheel
happily come back
pay me with oranges
lord, make love and dirty color;
i casually peel skin off my hands.
i long for cats to go wrong right here and now.
i watch the hearts of violet people
and laugh at babies.
i fall down a lot
and i create winter.
i ambush my sister
and patiently cut my losses.
i weep for other gentlemen.
i steer clear of children and blackbirds.
i sleep in casual clothes.
i pause [...]
There’s a pawnshop by my work that sells “Hello World” greeting cards.
It’s a programmer joke.
I saw them in the window and went in to ask how much they cost.
A woman was one step ahead of me,
she asked, “Any that say Goodbye World?”
It was hard to hold back any clean words from my big mouth.
I said, [...]
If I were a self-loathing man I’d say I’ve been crawling so far up my own ass for so long that I’ve gotten stuck inside my head.
dear whiskey,
hold these faithless boys!
keep their hearts healthy and their stomachs clean!
i will fix their dirty minds,
i’ll just need a little time alone with them.
and if they ask to smoke instead?
oh those dirty boys with their dirty minds and their dirty chests.
dear whiskey,
now, i won’t keep your company as well!
your transvestites and your gentle little [...]
you should stand like a lovely fire beneath your closest friends
“I am, and always have been in love with you”, he said.
“Oh no, no. That can’t be. This is not how I imagined it at all.”, she replied.
“I have also always been your father.”
“Now I know you are lying…”
I swam in a river of sweat.
From so high up my reflection bent and twisted in and out of sight. The skin on my feet scraped along the steel of the phone tower. I inched out toward the edge and fell before I expected to. I tumbled through the air like a penny through a [...]
And so he crashed in the back door and stood, pausing for a painfully long second…
He threw up as though it was a sneeze. No strain, no gargling sounds of tortured livers, it’s time had come and the vomit covered him, the floor, and the baseboards where it splashed. He stared at the mess for [...]
March 2, 2010
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