February 2011
Ow! - Depressed Buttons
gosh. trust is one of those damnable things that gets harder the older you get. like touching your toes or sexless dreams.
it’s not that it’s harder to pull out of the air. in fact, we often trust…. weather predictions, wikipedia, women knitting in subway stations. perhaps it’s the vastness of our demands that shrinks the ability of trust to hold.
we ask for little when...
January 2011
i’ve been off sugar for a little over two months now. i wonder how many more months it will be before i’m well enough to eat it again?
years?
how many more months until i’m well again? until something works?
“I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.”
– Woody Allen
it’s a long ass day. got my space heater on. my cats at my side and my shakespeare on. also my apush on. weather forecast predicts snow for tuesday and wednesday. unbelievably i can’t do that. can’t take one more snowday. i’ve been in school three times in the past two weeks.
my true student soul weeps for my waning educational opportunities.
www.everythingisterrible.com →
Quarry Under Hunter's Moon
lie in the quarry with face up
to face the stones circling
the salmon skinned sky, above
the shale walls - klaxon footed
tree roots clutching at sides
whisping down to water
below
where we are,
here, i thirst for the marble below the
mud and the planted grass
i want the bedrock below my
teeth the small volcanic reserves
resolving in my mouth, my gums
intangible heat
and in the...
the biddies want me to go iceskating today when i’ve really got to reread macbeth and write some position papers and read all my briefings with edith. i’m just gonna have to blow off all plans and work my ass off.
it’s hard out there for a faux supreme court justice.
Stowaways
“I want to take you to India
or someplace like that we can get
vaccines together steal black
market spleens for Aunts in need
or we can do it your way
and smuggle the supplies”
you say to me in the
pizzeria, instead I suggest Mexico
because we will travel
across cities similar to that
of our own and then we will
be drug lords overnight
in our sports uniforms
we will...
Pussy - Brazilian Girls
“I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.”
– Mae West
just went out with my girl. we had noodles and then skulked around town in the cold. took refuge in cumbies and ran into some men we have history with…buying booze with fake IDS.
gotta love being a hoodlum. but god am i sick of this town. sometimes. no more cigarettes on the stoop. i need some biddies in bangladesh
