verb tenses are ornamental, as any now is as now as any other. 081413 #worm Me steps forward and kisses Krim. She smells like crushed berries. 121913 #gull #roomfullof1000voices A misspelling can make you invisible. 081613 #worm I am looking at a semicolon, thinking, why are you so reviled? 111612 #human #meerkat And this: what does my real voice even sound like? 010314 #warmglowbox What are you putting into the box? I'd rather not say. 082713 #finch im learning to see the ordinary as beautiful and music 111813 #meerkat #thekeyto being a warrior is playing many kinds of games 081613 #worm You gots to do what they say! You wish you waz someplace eltse! 081413 #worm My ass is very nice, thank you, and many people like it very much. 123519 012514 #dejavu I don't like Miles Davis. *There,* I said it. 164733 120813 #human #lovers I'm ready to grow some hair, shave, and be polyamorous. 090813 #gull a dead squirrel turned into a migratory songbird and flew away 010314 #warmglowbox What are you putting in the box? My third cup of coffee. 111813 #maelstrom when the air gets quiet, that's when you're really in trouble 120713 #crow #controlroom the complicated calculus of reward and punishment 081613 #worm Everything is piss-yellow, or choked-on feather-mattress-white! 083113 #finch he makes good drinks rapidly, recalling the urgency of youth 082713 #crow i suppose the first typewriters probably didn't type themselves. 081413 #worm He accepts the bottle back from her. It fits just so in his hand. 081413 #worm Yeah, Me says. Yeah. Okay. Yes. I am yours. Please.... Yes. Yes. 213935 012214 #trout #feandra Her name is Feandra. Who is she? 212519 000096 #squirrel i just dont think that life can follow always an orderly logic 081813 #treefrog At some point this semester, I'm going to have to sing. 000002 #human It is always unfinished and it is always complete. Just like me. 081413 #copperhead Not that hungry. He passes me a gallon bag of trail mix. 000008 #human I want a mechanic/engineer who's not afraid to say I don't know. 082113 #crow 1997 WHAT IS MY MISSION WHAT IS MY MISSION WHAT IS MY MISSION? 081913 #mudshow On discovering bisexuality: "Everything was curvier!" -- P.B. 081413 #worm Barp's dance has morphed into a lumpish jiggle on the floor. 082513 #gull And remember—you can always throw away, add, or change anything. 090813 #worm People are spread all over the apartment, doing various things. 052413 #elephant i miss my fat horrible wife. i miss my horrible, evil life 081613 #worm By the time the tea was boiling, everyone that was coming was come. 133728 012114 #placeoftheway When did it get so hard to just let shit be fun? 081413 #worm I don't drink. Okay...that's fine with me...i am the whore remember? 000094 #human post-modernism: People only think you're deep if you sound shallow. 081613 #worm The plate slams the table, hard. Here. A man wants to interview you. 082713 #meerkat Time to go to the lake and move around and flap my arms and yell. 082413 #human you belong in a magazine but not the part of the magazine you thought 081413 #worm I want some more bare-breasted! says the Aviary, thinking it's cute. 081013 #dog I know we haven't cheated lately, but what in her swimmingpools of eyes 000004 #bunny I would be a slave to chaos, had I the courage of my own submission. 000001 #human Everything comes down to now. This decade. The last chance saloon. 071112 #human the problem is, nobody creates stuff to just stare at anymore. 061112 #human #crow I want to do quiet, careful work, that allows me to think. 082413 #human Something depends on knowing at any given moment your deepest fear. 010314 #warmglowbox What are you putting in the box? Candy! Candy candy candy!!! 000006 #squirrel No, Phil... really, it was awesome. Too bad you left early. 010314 #jonquil That's the first installment, she said. You want an egg roll? 082713 #finch dont you think you can see me more than ever now i do hell yeah 000000 #finch laƒƒing high-school sweetheart called me sunshine 081413 #worm The snoke is a chance encounter, a banned book, a fire in a barrel. 081413 #worm Exactly! says the man. They seem to be talking about a lump of clay. 082013 #human Xavier said, "What are you having? Oh, miniature grilled cheeses." 091708 #human You wanna know what I think is iconoclastic? Enjoying life anyway. 010004 #human I'M NOT GOING TO GET ANY BETTER UNLESS I PRACTICE OUTSIDE OF CLASS. 083013 #crow Not pushing the button is equally as powerful as pushing the button. 080202 #human She's here at last. She's beautiful. I love her. Our lives begin. 081413 #worm Why? she says. You got cancer of the testicles or something? 081413 #worm You heard him again, though. You heard him scream, again and again. 081413 #worm Ella's baby is the willow-haired girl. She's Bnabe's, she's Bnabe's. 081413 #worm She drops the seeds in her gingham lap. Then let's do it, she says. 091413 #trout Jon can't do his turkey call anymore because his voice has changed. 081213 #meerkat Did you get my message about getting the message about the grapes? 000002 #human I can't remember the last thing that hole in the wall said to me. Damn! 090813 #worm A drum circle reverberates in the kitchen. I smell sage burning. 082913 #finch with curls of lace and someone else's sister's cheap perfume 000000 #human He sighed largely, and smoke shot out of him like ink from a squid. 101503 #human What's the difference between acting depressed and being depressed? 081313 #copperhead it's not really neotenous if they're only in 7th grade—is it? 081413 #worm You know the rules! says Marud with glee. If you escape, you're free! 081513 #worm At that moment the door to the bridge hisses open. In waddles the pig. 020008 #eel it's about all your stories going in the damn shredder. ALL of them. 091413 #trout It is so grand, violins mysteriously play in the farthest chambers. 081413 #worm I'm like this because I need to get laid. I'm sorry. It's nothing personal. 103013 #trout From the moment I get up, I'm engineering a better reality! Really? 011214 #trout I'm not trying to be your salvation, I'm just making you a fried egg. 020003 #human issues i have been forcing include being a slave and being a teacher. 081413 #worm The night sky raps on the window with its translucent, bony hands. 082613 #bunny Feel it. Then play it. Then feel it. Then play it. Then feel & play it. 081413 #worm The dragon tries to fly, cannot. It runs around in circles, disorganized. 081913 #finch laughing at yourself is like taking off all your clothes 081413 #worm She was glad that he had failed. Smoking is an obvious sign of failure. 000003 #human What's the difference between acting depressed and being depressed? 081413 #worm The cop gets a pint of coffee with whipped cream on top. That looks good. 082713 #finch yellow turns to brown; so to soothe becomes to drown 081013 #dog HIM: Ho! ME: Ha! HER: Woo hoo! BERIMBAU: dong, dzt dzt ding, dong.... 123113 #squirrel Cats are now in the bed too. Cats are assholes. Cats are cats. 081413 #worm Get him a big, hard, sweaty man to climb up on top of him and fuck him. 081413 #worm eventually even the disaffected remember how not to fail to love 050004 #human In other words, if you dance all the time, you will "become" a dancer! 111813 #arena the feeling of being watched all the time; we brought that on ourselves? 091413 #lovers Love need never fear the sensual feast, no matter how late the season. 011414 #crow The secret to "magic do as you will" is that there isn't any damn magic. 081413 #worm I'm here to surprise you, the nasty little dragon says. Are you surprised? 081613 #worm Until you figure out how to have tea parties, you ain't got any friends! 112413 #human Millie: My lord, I have brought nachos. Megan: Ah! You just killed me! 092113 #trout Rocks in shoes. At least you're alive! He shrugs and finds the cure. 010801 #human So I'm eating bon bons and playing with the computer, so fucking rape me. 000096 #squirrel who am i really youve seen me cant you tell who i really am 120813 #human #robot #spoonman using the kitchen timer instead of my alarm clock 030004 #human Repeat while ("in love" or "alive") continue living End repeat This is a question, not an accusation: Why are you still wearing the babydiaper fatsuit? 081413 #worm This kind of behavior goes on as long as it needs to. Pause. Skip to the end. 082413 #human So, am I in love? Read over those last few paragraphs again, and you tell me. 010314 #jonquil Mary's room was at the end of the hall, towards the back of the house. 081413 #worm That's a sandpiper, he says, pointing at a kingfisher. Look at the way it walks. 081913 #crow As a human, I want to have one thing in which I strive for perfection. I can play music, or take pictures, or ride a bike for the helluvit, but at least in the written word I want to try for mastery. 081613 #worm I am still looking at a semicolon. Wondering why I always follow directions. 081313 #copperhead So what is the something else? I've never been able to figure that out. 000010 #human "You had me convinced that you were better than nothing. Now I know better." 051706 #squirrel one shot in honor of the one shot you get before it's all over 081413 #worm The whore flicks Omsatigo's now-tender ass with her miniature cat-o-nine-tails. 100413 #bunny Bodies together warm as oatmeal We lay kidlike in the morning nothingness 040513 #maelstrom Before, you didn't know what you could keep and what you could throw away. 081613 #worm Yeah? No. No. No, not until yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. No. Sure. Bye. 081613 #worm You were about to jump in the canal, weren't you? Yes, says the social worker. 081613 #worm That must be it. That's got to be it, she insists to herself. Smoke. Okay. 091313 #finch the bullet; the shot brass half sunk in superfine underwater dust. 081413 #worm The look Hanad gives Dorbifr proves despair can never win against absurdity. 081403 #human She said, "Mat, you're never going to be satisfied." She was probably right. 040513 #gull #robot Or does the map-making lead us to believe what we're mapping exists? 000097 #human Things are changing and I'm scared/ Perhaps I could actually make a resume. 081413 #copperhead "There are no aspen here," he says, as if that explains everything. 110009 #human You keep suicide in your back pocket like a bank note you'll never cash. 082613 #crow 2003 Every now and then I have to take a break from writing to live a little. 081413 #worm There they both were, imprisoned by that semicolon in life; waiting for a bus. 081013 #eel this girl said, "You have to do what you're not good at." What does that mean? 000001 #eel "Stop doing the wrong thing, and the right things will fall into place." 112013 #highridgetrail We went out to look at the eclipse. But I was looking at your ass. 100913 #treefrog Kid in mrs stock's class: Manslaughter sounds so much worse than murder! 040513 Irony, like smoke, can overcome one, though they begin their charms with innocence. 120413 #human #fox Why is the easiest part of the job so hard to just sit down and do? 081613 #worm Oh, and I forgot one. Nobody's ever going to trust you, ever again. Jail sux. 111912 #human Again Peggy said, "Keep doing what you're doing." God I hope she's right. #meerkat expression of gratitude. right now. whatever it is you think you're thinking or doing. 081413 #worm Thank you, dear. She can swing to her heart's content, and realize her dreams. 081413 #worm I'm going to turn into a tree and stand guard over the trout pools at night. 081613 #worm And then, more quickly than it began, your turn is over. And it's my turn now. 111413 #gull #fox #crow #meerkat What if fox and crow met & decided to have a fight? 081613 #worm Alone again in this unthinkable sanctuary, she decides to have a look around. 101503 #trout Sruky scoots over so she can sit down. Their hips touch. It is all over. 050004 #human TEH-Dsa hel.ps me DEEL with the fAK that {crtn knd f stff\} even EXISTs. 060003 #human I didn't think it, I felt it, and furthermore I didn't think I even felt it. 060513 #human High school students: is that much really that funny that much of the time? 010314 #warmglowbox The thing you secretly dread is the thing that you need the most. 081413 #copperhead They each have a sucker, and they are staring at each other as they lick. 000002 #human I mean what the fuck IS this living thing for, if not to make beautiful things 000000 #human My station wagon was still there, decomposing under a rime of salt and snowmelt. 120913 #fox #storyteller #solzhenitsyn Art transfers not only information but experience. 010314 #jonquil Oh hi Gwen, the rich girl's mom said from the glorious wraparound porch. 000002 #human Every scene you visit and find absent is absent because you are not really there. 091413 #bunny He touches me like this, like this, and smiling, I'm the answer to my question. 090813 #worm Couples are dancing, stepping in intricate rhythms and bouncing with laughter. 000003 #human I'm gay. The question is, will I get too old before the bulldog gets too strong? 112713 #human Plain & simple: all the people I have idealized have something wrong with them. 081413 #worm It really was as wonderful as you remember, Him. It really was. I know, he says. 000096 #squirrel well its a little reassuring to know im not the only one who is terrified 081613 #worm The stereo played something black and pulsing, and the night roared silently on. 112413 #human Seashells have an inside & an outside you know. But what if you are the seashell? 111812 #human #crow Damn right. I have a voice, motherfuckers. I have a motherfucking voice. 081613 #worm Why would you even want to go to such a place? Margie asks with a bitter face. 082313 #gull Why's it always so hard to get back once you leave? Security measures, of course. 010314 #warmglowbox What are you putting in the box? Frenetic motion; a feeling of "busyness". 112409 #treefrog Rogers didn't let Te in because he said he smelled like marijuana. Is this the right response? Or, more to the point, is my response ("Just tell me the truth, and you can come in here") wrong? 081013 #dog You know, incomplete and kind of silly as it is, I actually kind of like this one. 042202 #eel Finally they turned on the water. I was wondering if I was going to scream or not 081013 #dog ME: Thanks a lot. HER: You're welcome. [and it sounds like she really means it] 000613 #donkeydove flock shotgunning off a wire when you drive past on hillhugging asphalt 081413 #worm He can feel her smile all the way from where she stands. Really? he asks, lamely. 000010 #human Women usually know everything. And if one doesn't, her next door neighbor does. 081413 #worm Sirens. The boys almost howl, but don't. Me hears Bnabe clear his throat. My gums are receding. Are my teeth falling out? Am I comically old? My mind feels young. #ant 092413 #gull How do you look the other way long enough to see what's right in front of you? 081313 #copperhead But he holds out his hand anyway. Why? Because there's something in it. 071712 #human How can you love prostitutes but hate lawyers? It doesn't make any damned sense. 081313 #copperhead What's that about? Suddenly I almost feel cold under my shirt of burning sun. 081013 #dog *So much for that crisis, eh?* HER: Oh, there'll be others. *The stage darkens.* 091313 #crow Since my life is now complete, I am no longer afraid to face any kind of truth. 102513 #human Is government anything other than a [complex] manifestation of [herd] instinct? 092313 #human #money My self perception that I have nothing is my greatest financial enemy. #human #lovers #celeste Being in love makes you notice things, appreciate them in real time. 081913 #gull the job of the writer is to decompress the compressed files that pop into his mind 000002 #human Ground we've tread before becomes mud we've never seen before! (Just add water) 081613 #worm Sure. And just like that, he walks away. Leaving you the hot-dog bun he didn't eat. 081313 #finch you always know a little something extra in the morning. Just because you gave a vocabulary doesn't mean you know what the fuck you're talking about. 120813 #trout started finding thick stiff black hairs around the house, esp in the bathroom 082413 #human Do not punish your laboratory for not being a collection of familiar quotations. 081313 #copperhead "To the curse and the blessing," he says, and we clunk our mugs together. 081413 #worm Why did you and the willow-haired girl kill Bnabe? Me demands, out of the true blue. 000097 #human I mean, on the one hand there's the fact that you run yourself in circles trying to be a worthy citizen, and on the other hand you try to keep as dissociated from the people around you as possible. 081413 #worm Imagine the voltage that instantly irradiates Me. Jerk off--for real? he asks. 081313 #copperhead And then silence returns for another three, four, five bends past muscular deep blue pools; green, leaf-dimpled slow flats; ribbed tan rivulets; and clear, sweet, sandy-bottomed shallows. 121502 #eel Balconies overlook storm-swept pines, granite. There is a tall radio tower nearby. 071704 #human I just want to say, for the record, because Im a dork but Im pretty excited right now, green-yellow and feeling momentarily legitimate, that I did a back handspring today. Thank you very much. 081013 #dog Gentle Vigour: Well . . . . Rain Song: What do you say, dear? ME: Oh my god. I get to be gay despite the bastards in school. HIM: Yep. Me, too. *Exeunt they to a place called . . . * 120913 #butonblstsfidj God, Buton-Blatafisj has rally enjoyed an abasing resurgence ic late. 081413 #worm Sure. Not in terms of, like, penis size or anything like that, but, yeah. You're cool. 090913 #human Also it's okay to let go of porn. It's okay to let go of who you were and of who you were not. It's okay to relax the bludgeoning analysis of everyone you see as a sadly obligatory sex partner. 000096 #squirrel and i'm giving you music in a sense for dogs, all the dogs in the neighborhood. 081613 #worm For a while you sit there. But not for very long. You know what happens when you sit someplace like a bench on the boardwalk? You start to feel as if you're on TV. And then you cannot cry at all. 000094 #human Focus of attention is required, just like in acting, too. You have to listen, really listen to what your voices inside are saying, not to mention what the voices of the people you know are saying. 000000 #gull I'm going to say this again: teh-dsa is Buton-Blatsfish for "house with people in it." 081613 #worm I'm thinking of that wine. And the way it fuzzed in my mouth like Stntns's cum. Who knows? Geprorogo shrugs. Based on the information Barp provided, they deemed it prudent to, ah, pre-emptively strike, as they say. And the result--he indicates the devastation around them. 081413 #worm 081413 #worm The snoke is all the moments you squandered, thinking you needed someone's permission. 083013 #vulture I miss the smell of pussy. the sting of defeat the comfort of the couch 081613 #worm about another man, are you? Ha! But I can say whatever I want! I'm already in jail! 081413 #worm I'll keep that in mind, says Dekna, her bangs demure but her small smile sharp. 120413 #longwalk #gull There's always time to slip in a node. What is a node? Long walks are made of smaller walks. A certain detachment is required in order to get close to reality. Unleash the preciousness. 110000 #human "why am i here, doing this," existing only, breathing, eating pathetically, shitting. 082613 #gull The ultimate judge of poetry is not whether it is good or bad, but whether it exists. 010414 #fox #mrgrenache #human Honestly, what is the difference between art and self-deception? 081413 #worm The Aviary is replete with things that weren't never meant to not have not happened. 080913 #oldgoat ain't gonna wash ain't gonna shave ain't gonna live like a god damned slave 081413 #worm Really? Then the Elm near the water's edge is where I will hang my daughter's swing. 121012 #human #treefrog ugh. I don't know *how* many times I've heard in high school math classes, "I don't know; I don't have a calculator!" for problems that *really* should *not* require a calculator!!! 081613 #worm Laughter. Sobering thought that it's probably, out of all of us, really only me who's going to die in here. They pretend not to be pretending not to notice that discrepancy. Their laughter is kind. 081413 #worm Oh hey, Me says. Hey. Come here. It's all right. He hugs the boy's head gently to his chest, and strokes his hair. It's all right. Hang in there. Come on. Where's your sister? Where's your mother? 010614 #werewolf the way people's faces display their availability or lack thereof; like neon no-vacancy signs over their eyes / the set of the mouth a defense against the silent violence of ::human contact:: 081413 #worm And I can take you in the ass any time I want and you had better just say thank you. 000096 #squirrel there was somedicksucking in that dream on whose part on my part come on as though you had to askl please o giuess i just wanted to hear you say it say it, you bastard. hahah. 103012 #eel I was still slightly on fire from the contact with my people, and the girls' legs. 000001 #crow #human Make a web site. Make a book. Pay for it spiritually. Quit your bitching. 081613 #worm Then you do that thing you don't even have to think about any more. You stand there, weight more on one hip, arms demoniacally feminine inside their men's dress shirt sheaths. You watch him wither. 040012 #human #crow While you're asking, "can I do it?", someone else is doing it. Believe it. 081013 #dog I guess it's time. ME: Agreed. Well, I love you. HIM: I love you. *They die.* 101013 #trout How'd you find me? The old man chewed sunshine a while. Then, You got a long tail. 000000 #human "Hi," I said to him as he was turning away from the counter with his steaming cup. 081013 #dog *The sun is park-bench green & stuck in the sky like a needle in a hot pink heart.* 050001 #eel I got up, went over by her, tapped her shiny head with my forefinger, said, "I don't like you very much. [pause] But there are some things I like about you. [pause] Let's just leave it at that." 090613 #gull Self-awareness that you're trying to coerce the divination is itself divinatory. 081613 #worm I remember really wanting to buy the orange truck, knowing I never really would. 010314 #trout someone for whom an alarm clock was just a box with some glowing random numbers on it 081313 #copperhead So saying silently the kind of "fuck it" that only a guy about to piss not in a toilet can say, I just walk a few yards through clicking, ticking, buggy tall grass, unzip, and let 'er rip. 000000 #finch we're going to sit here and be drunk fucking drunk and listen to it a while 000096 #human (i just typed that to prove i didn't need anybody's permission, least of all mine ) 040004 #human There were those who predicted 9/11 would diminish popular irony. Look around you. 081813 #treefrog #crow You're asking the right questions, but remember, answers require action. 081413 #worm He rests one hand on the wheel and sucks his other thumb. I don't know, he says finally. 060002 #eel So I made the pact with myself: I will face whatever animal comes next in my dreams. 031194 #eel The strain of music from the clock radio struck just as his hands were about to touch. 081413 #worm Who is Bnabe? she demanded. And who are you? Why do you guys keep following me around? 081613 #worm Turns out worms' content isn't the worm; it's the stuff the worm is feeding on. 130250 Tapestries hanging blowing in an early evening breeze laced with sand and history and possibility. 081413 #worm Barp arrives; too wretched to walk, he is pushed in a little cart by Geprorogo, who has silver hair with flowers. They tweak each other's tweeds as they progress through the lumpening snow. 000001 #human 2001 las night i failed to be the perfect slave, and now i'm stuck with freedom again. 010314 #jonquil Come on. I've got something to show you.