Bring Back the Snakes ( Read more... )

Today I saw a guy in a "Rage Against The Machine" t-shirt angrily slapping the side of an ATM.

I want to scream so loud my bedroom walls will tremble in fear ( Read more... )

The counter girl is lovely, striking even. She looks serene waiting behind the counter, but as we begin talking, I realize that something isn't right. She seems a bit like a computer animation - too uniform, too shiny. At first I think she's just wearing too much makeup, but then she laughs and I think it's something deeper ( Read more... )

Fuck you
I say absent-mindedly
tight rope dancing

My friend, whose eyes may be
darkening a bit, says
What the hell is
wrong with you?

What he doesn't know
is that when we're walking
together, when we get
to the curb
I sometimes start to reach
for his hand

Sometimes things annoy me more than they should. For example, the small blue signs someone has taped in our bathroom stalls.
Flush early!
Flush often!
Flush freely!
Help prevent traffic backup.

Yeah. Those are coming down.

Say you wake up, and it's still dark, and you're groggy, a little stoned, and you're thirsty. Say you stumble into the kitchen, and you see the silhouette of a bottle of Mountain Dew on the counter. Say you're sleepy, so you don't stop to think about why it's not in the fridge, or why the cap feels funny ( Read more... )

Scenerio: Phone call from Mr. Palermo from Rhode Island.Me: "Hi thank you for calling Cox Communications, my names Laura and I can help you ( Read more... )

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Scenario: Friends a couple cubicles away from my own discuss the creative process.Girl: Yeah, there’s this guy in our writing group who usually does really good stuff, but just started doing this thing where he strings together a bunch of stuff that doesn’t make sense. It’s like an automatic-writing thing. It doesn’t apply to anything else he’s ( Read more... )