I have never known anything but this boat ( Read more... )

Im wondering right now if you’ve ever heard this song ( Read more... )

1. Staircases lead to nowhereville ( Read more... )

All day long it’s been me following jack or jack following me and I can’t decide which is which because he keeps turning to me saying “you know nothing’s impossible, you know it” and then turning back. I’ve never felt alone like I do when I’m with him. We’re together but we’re alone. I guess nobody ever thinks that’s what love is going to be like ( Read more... )

There is a sad asphyxiation I share with you. You and the rest of these poor standing workmen saps ( Read more... )

“have you ever been in love, Jordan ( Read more... )

Christine smells like ginger and patchouli and part of me wants to digest her aura but part of me is glad she’s all the way on the other side of the room, staring at our pile in the center with that maniacal look. I’m a little afraid of her when she’s like this ( Read more... )

She sits across from me, knee to knee, staring. Right at this little patch I’ve got over my heart from my brother’s army jacket. Right at my feelings for her even though she doesn’t know that part and then she stands up and takes my shirt off. For a second she’s a painting: “Lucille, exposé” from the Albert blue period. And then she tosses on her ( Read more... )

She is angry and self-righteous while she sits in her short short short shorts with the lightning bolts and stares me straight in the brain with her piercy eyes. I clap at the edge of a mosquito and just catch it, watching it fall miserably to the white linoleum floors. I brush it away from my sight with my shoe hoping that kills it because I don’t ( Read more... )

Part the First ( Read more... )