Cool-Not Cool. Just think of all we have suffered to be cool or not to be cool? All the broken hearts- all the broken bones- all the broken spirits- all the damaged livers- all the butchered psyches- all the brain cells sacrificed at the altar of Cool-Not Cool. I used[…]
Late summer and the river has run dry in its bed. Cracked like lips with fever, drawn taut under the indifferent sky a void has risen imperceptibly above the banks, as the vapors of the afternoon dance off, whirling around into it like stellar gases collapsing on a black hole.[…]
The discussion concerned membranes, lesions, reconstruction and even skin grafts. I never realized as a child how important an organ my skin was. Brain, heart, lung, liver got all the attention. All I needed to do was eat right. Who knew that all these years later it would be hours[…]
“She always put her mouth where her money was, but, Hell, that was how her Mother used to needle her!” His voice seemed to cloud over somehow- from within- maybe it wasn’t only her Mom he was remembering. His wet hands were roughly scraping at his gnarled scruff of a[…]
Somehow they just seem to appear, in the mornings, draped over all the senses, clouding perceptions, wearing on joints and synapses. They hang across our lives in intricate networks as complicated and intertwined as vineyards in the Autumn. As if made of steel, they are binding, constricting and crushing inward[…]
Minds! Antiseptic minds, cleansed by the new improved multi-managed medium, dictated to incessantly by omission (if nothing else) and by all the bytes and bits that we make time for- TIME! Time for Andy's 15, the evening news' 2, and for every products' (pantyhose to presidents) :59 and :29[…]
The periods just freeze me. Even without them- even with out capitals I can’t! Sometimes all it takes is a phrase- or a simple sight- the slightest trigger. I just need a simple little block buster- a little push. Once I get rolling it’ll be a down hill coast. I[…]
KEEP FOIL WRAPPER TO PUT GUM IN AFTER USE there are workers in the subway and the streets with special tools just for scraping up gum USE IN VENTELATED AREA here is a hole in the ozone layer the size of the Antarctic AVOID CONTACT WITH EYES There are 3,000[…]
Early on it was felt that only prayer and good deeds would soothe the soul. Of late, it seems, there is always some price. The fact that time is the cathartic catalytic conveyance surprises and convinces no one. Whereas though the sanctity of spirit stirs and the discrepancies of justice[…]
invisible insidious burrowing catastrophe born in the fluids of life feeding on a liver a lung a brain officially of course there’s nothing to worry about but not a drop has touched my lips let them dig unofficially in you 9/29/95