PAUL: I'll let you read it, but... it's not done yet. I'm not trying to be weird about it, it's just... it'd be like singing one note of a song, and asking you how great it is. It'd be pretentious.

MARIO: That's cool, man. I hear you. Let me read it when you done, then.

The store SFX and MUZAK FADE. As they shelve more items, music BEGINS ( Read more... )

Her delicate fingers were clutching his arm ( Read more... )

Light, concomitant to tactility, concomitant to redolence, shone through, a bitterly bright elucidation of her beauty, to speak, to fixate in the prismatic globe of the mind or memory toward some stupefaction of self, and no doubt he felt himself dissolve in the wash of his own perceptions, in the splash or refraction of light from the eye, the ( Read more... )

I live in an apartment of infinitesimal proportions; at times I am not sure I truly exist. The apartment is in Los Angeles, California. When it rains, I stand on the walkway and imagine the droplets as lines tracing downward from heaven. It is grandiose and cloyingly romantic. At times I also fear that my romantic nature will never translate. ( Read more... )

( Read polled poetry. )

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( Two anecdotes selected at random over three days. )

I will attempt to draw you into this narrative moment: It’s incredibly warm today, a Kansas warmth, warmth that is almost airless. On the corner across from our building, the hirsute, nonverbal saxaphonist has taken up his usual place; he fills the street with his sort of ambient sacharine interpolations, playing familiar tunes with a dawdling ( Read more... )

There was a theory at play that we are all ligatured beings hindering our own flight or flights, that we harness one another unto the ground, that we are hidebound. For this reason they crashed into each other beautifully. Linda fucked Charles in the garden, and it was art because she was a horticulture major. Charles opined that he was jaded. ( Read more... )

It's nearing three a.m. I'm sitting behind the front desk at the hotel ( Read more... )