Cherrypicked stories
I: 9/13/02
Work Diary, 9/13/02 Once, at a dinner party of sushi, marijuana, and bad wine, we discussed the theory that homosexuals are more creative than their...
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- 686 reads
H: 9/12/02
Work Diary, 9/12/02 Some ruminations: 1. The other night we were watching a nature program in which the narrator described the polluted, crappy,...
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- 775 reads
Visit (the)
Inside this camphor wood chest I have saved every breath, Each exhalation, in glass bottles stoppered with wax Since the day you began. Your first...
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- 437 reads
H ~ Jill reminds me of Trish
I shouldn't call these 'appreciation' pieces. It all went wrong.
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- 954 reads
Doodlebug
Doodlebug I remember now the ashtray, a silvered metal tower with a spinning disc that launched the crumpled stubs off at a tangent into the bowl...
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- 824 reads
One of us is par for the course
A joke about philosophy and golf.
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- 965 reads
Etchings
Echoes from the past
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- 2976 reads
A Requiem For One Man's Life
A Parable About The Value Of Life
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- 2412 reads
Loss
Cast the falling bones my child, draw close, the flames seductive, cast shadows in our world; caves of abandoned cries. Destructive peril,
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- 1718 reads
One year on
In remembrance of September 11th
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- 1178 reads
Passage
No 24/7 filling station, no Sunday trading, no risk of crashing. So you eased your car back towards the corner of the supermarket car park, opened...
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- 1214 reads
Outside 'The Howling Wolf' Club, New Orleans
For ever-night the charcoal scent of ever-warm, floating food smoke, belched from a thousand grills,
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- 1968 reads
The Car
The car is full of rubbish because he never cleans it out - not because he's lazy or anything, more because it just doesn't occur to him that it...
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- 387 reads
Heart
one day there's nothing you can do sit on your hands, they will not work their mothering after all there is something quite beyond you there's no cure
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- 1890 reads
Rawness
if loud music is applied to pain will it soften it, break down its sides and if someone sitting on the wall outside the house, alone reminds you how...
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- 1519 reads
V ~ September 10th, 2002
Cherried yesterday, altered today. 1-starred too. Clearly the best piece ever.
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- 995 reads
The Concertina File Is the Way To Goodness
diary blahdeblah
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- 4250 reads
Moth
I think I could cup the giant moth in my two hands the tenderness of that fearless, I could slowly close the trap of my fingers I learnt I was...
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- 2007 reads
You Can't Take It With You&;#063;
But what if you get there, and the guy next to you has all his stuff&;#063;
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- 488 reads
Lithium Rose
This drug she has to take to make things better it creeps through blood to her mind a fizzing sherbet tablet trying to erase yesterday but she...
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- 1466 reads