The hostess starts playing “Cheeseburger in Paradise” again, announces it’s time for the ladies to stand and move one table to the left. I comply. I leave behind Hawaiian Shirt Stan, who’s got a bald spot on his head
Category: Fall 2018
No one notices when my two eyebrows try to reconsolidate their relationship —not even my wife, who often massages the blackheads from my nose. But still, I dab the dark patch with shaving cream and wonder when I first
My friend has cut himself again for Christmas and I recall his stories of a knife locking into the bones of his knuckle. I’ve only been cut badly once and I am fascinated by the severing of things— The
1. Solve for x: y do you wish to be elsewhere? If we are two passengers on two trains, traveling at unequal speeds, how soon will we each circle the earth? Tip*: The earth is not a perfect sphere,
In G’s basement growroom, the LED full spectrums run pink with Miss Sour Diesel budding crystal like the top of Mt. Hood. Miss Gorilla Glue #4 bushes wide with thick, dark leaves smiling. A couple more weeks on the
Four of us sat around the small bedroom when there should have been five. Words were scarce. Peter sat at the desk chair, the rest of us were piled onto Garrett’s neat bed that used to be nothing but
Todd gives me permission to sleep after Polish vodka shots, mashed guitars and mutual musical respect at four in the morning. Sleeping bag on pad and floor, I’ve forgotten how to sleep in the city. Drips, footsteps, firetrucks freak
drinks in the road flowing before him. His passengers are inert, each wrapped in the other. Each a pothole away from a bladder-burst of embarrassment. DD does not deviate from the straight or narrow, the sparkling markers, the sexually
[PIK – UHLS] Pikkylls, pekilles, pekels, pöekels Preserved in brine, the knotty bullets languish in a glass, adorned, the dress code formal, a gleaming choker twisted around its neck like an ornamented noose, a Ball sash scrolled across its
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