and the woman who sold them wore a thick sweaterbuttoned in the middle of 90 degree heat.But we didn’t notice, reaching for the salt…
At a time like thissmoke drifts across the roada few bars of harmonicaflit through the gusts of conversation. You are no longer alive. A…
What do you hunger for?The you who answers to your name,all 30 trillion human cells of you,is also the you made of 39 trillionbacteria,…
from the last of our beesrequires a spoon long and strongenough to scrape a final huddledglow from the jar’s corner. Goldturned to crystal, gold…
I don’t want to go to Hell when I die,to be dead and still be suffering andnot only suffering but sufferingworse than when I…
Life screams at you like the vacuumsucking up beer caps.Where are you going?Back to stacking place mats,paper napkins, and the half-and-half,which looks a whole…
After supper with my parents I gonext door from the buffeteria tothe drug store to look at the comic books.It’s 1965. They’re twelve cents…
“Is it worse to be someplace awful when you’re by yourself,or someplace really nice that you can’t share with anyone?” This is where Theseus…
The guy drinking Seven Tails on the rocks scoops a lemon from his glass and lets the flea live.What else is mercy but a…