March 2010
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House Party on Friday! You're tall! With big...
I went to a party with a lot of well dressed young people, and although I am, I guess, kind of young too, I’m not as young probably… as anyone that was at the party. My clothes also don’t cost as much as any of theirs did. And my hair is clearly not well-styled. So I stood a few feet away from you, and I’m thinking, Oh jeez. She is a fox. She is a minx. (A minx is a female...
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Nelson sat down at the cafe table with a little cup of tea and a little biscuit. As he wiped bread crumbs and butter from the side of his mouth, he looked at the woman with fancy black shoes waiting on line. He said to himself, oh, now I’ve got it. The more a woman’s feet look like hooves, the more I want to have sex with her. And then he drank more tea.
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I’m staring into the foot end of my my grandmothers sleek black casket. I can hear my mother, kneeling next to me. She asks me to come closer to pay my respects. We’re in Maine. We took the long drive up from New York the night before and I’m still tired from hardly sleeping. A wide bouquet of loose white lilacs spread themselves out all around me on the floor. I avoid them...
Been living here two years. Put a cigarette in a whiskey bottle near my bed for every time I brought somebody home. I’m on about two a weekend. I’m at the bar, he’s ordering me drinks, we get home, and I drop a butt into the bottle. It’s a tally mark. It’s a notch in my belt. It’s a cigarette in an empty whiskey bottle. It tells me how far off I am off...
