Sicilian Defense

Archimedes with

Sicilian eyes made mirrors

Searing daft ships

Symbol lauded sound:
Never really comprehend
Your laconic mug

IV.

Jody proves to be a good friend to you, and you two enjoy coffee and cigarettes frequently.

December rolls around. Your sponsor, Alex, calls you up and asks if you want to go on a spontaneous road trip.

“Going to Deeetroit,” he says on the phone.

You’ve never been to Detroit but something about ( Read more... )

III.

The days grow shorter and darker, and you feel more and more dissonance with reality. Slowly, through a diet of doughy Sicilian pizzas and ramen noodles, you’ve regained a semblance of body mass and strength.

At the coffee shop you frequent, you make friends with a mentalist named Scorpio, who has a penchant for bending ( Read more... )

II.

You befriend a paranoid schizophrenic named Ennis from Dayton. He smokes hand rolled cigarettes through a tarstained wooden tiporello, and watches syndicated shows in his one bedroom apartment. You return to work at your job in the mailroom of the company your mom works in. After work you and Ennis go to a meeting, then for coffee ( Read more... )

I.

It’s the autumn of 1999 and you’ve just celebrated a year of sobriety and your twenty first birthday. You’ve been lying, supine, on your parents’ brown leather sofa for a month because you’ve had mono.

You got mono from a beautiful redheaded bombshell. She’s nineteen, about five foot three, ninety eight pounds, and has ( Read more... )

Cabbagepatch concern:

Meddling in romantic

Issues with her “friends”

            It was an erstwhile afternoon, into the shallow remnants of October. He remembered her, for reasons obscure, as he parked his dented Camry under boughs of grand deciduous oaks and maples lining the off path street. There was a blustery blue sky dashed with white cotton puffballs, all embossed against the stark age of the brick rimmed ( Read more... )

Andrangathia?

Heartwise, purkinje fibroma: dropped teste

Anacreonic pastoral romantic shorn arrow. Rust tip.

Foreclosure on Audi destitute to chopshop revels

Detroit: of all the corroded guff: streetwise

“She shorned me. She makuh me cry!”

Or some such allegoric pate - she gone mannequin.

Oh blather it - hollow face placard smiles should ( Read more... )

Full Deciduous

Borderline splitscape

With the bad guy du jour: New Friends: allied, assail defense

New friends become bad guys. Then next.

The yearnings come like a Jonestown, when she shooed and you’re all hamstrung facedown in a urinal looking at your leavings: trying to amend yrself.

But the urinal is bare, Jim: your leavings not more than ( Read more... )