we prowl the streets like young men with papers to serve, subsisting on words like rapacious, voracious, athirst.

living off the anticipatory tinglings, the sparks and the striking.

not getting it? place all your orders with me.

I need to explain something, anythings.

be sure of one thing:
we will keep on breathing till we're blue in the face.

We were still and will stay that way.


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Today, I got a call from a 555 number, and the season began.

Soy valiente. Tengo miedo. Los valientes tambien tienen miedo.

an aerial view of the limits of my potential, a space in the rest of my years for achievement.

q: my best girl's birthday in a week and where am I!

a: here!

stranded in london, to go with getting lost in the portrait gallery. the boy from ipanema is everywhere. whole head filled with, what's the word, chamois color. will join that india trading company, will do.

carefully exultant, clerically exultant. tenaciously festive, a back alley whisper's hooray.

a careful-where-you-step, mind-what-you-say birthday.

My grandfather tells the story, same story, this visit. He and Grandma had come up to visit from South Carolina, and she has brought a doll for me. As she reaches out to put it in my arms, my brother rips it from Grandma's bony fingers and rends it into pieces, starting with its head. Later that day, Grandpa and I stand behind Tommy on the ( Read more... )

Listen, you ask me something, you ask me anything and I promise I will try my best to do it, whatever it is. My very hardest. My very best, my very hardest, my very kindest heart, my fastest flowing blood, plow hands, mansions, laid at your feet, placed in your palm, you got it you've got it it's gotten ( Read more... )